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The Return Chapter 4
”Tina, you have no idea what the residual affects of the molestation may have had on you. People are crippled by these experiences and sometimes, things happen because we just don’t know we are doing them. I love you, and want you to be as happy as you can be and I really think addressing this head on will be good for you.” Bette had said with concern in her voice.
”I just don’t think it’s causing any problems. I’m fine, I’m happy. I love you and our daughter more than anything or anyone. Therapy would take time out of my very busy schedule and I am trying to get a foothold in the East Coast Movie industry. I just don’t want to miss my chance, again.” Tina had argued back.
”T, obviously something must have motivated you to keep this a secret and to lie about me being your first female and for that matter any sexual partner. Don’t you see that hiding what happened is a symptom that something is going on with you.” Bette had implored.
”Since when are you so up on psychology and symptoms of abuse.” Tina had shot back.
”I’m not saying I am all knowing, I just want to make sure you are okay now that the cat has been let out of the bag, so to speak.” Bette had said softly as she walked towards Tina reaching out to give her a hug.
Tina had reluctantly agreed to try it out. When she was really honest with herself, she knew something was going on with her; she just didn’t know what. Both her and Bette used therapy in the past and it had been helpful to some degree. It was in therapy that Tina saw how suffocated she was feeling and where all her insecurities, submissiveness and passive aggressiveness came from. Therapy brought out a craving for more and more exploration of who she was and who she wanted to be. But her job began to take off and she started skipping appointments. Tina embraced the therapy, but what she didn’t realize was that she stopped before she dealt completely with her open emotional wounds. She never learned the tools to effectively communicate her needs to Bette nor did she explore the role of her molest in the difficulties she was having in her relationship with Bette.
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Sorry, too sad for me. Can’t accept not happy finale for Tibette in any stories.
Excellent background story…..your rendition of this background for the ten years is the only thing that even makes some sense as to what happened in the then years since TLW. I’m not sure about the molestation by the sister. I have never accepted that as canon for the story. That was just too bizarre for me. As for the breakup and the divorce, yes that is the way I imagine it. I don’t see them having a lot of screaming fights, just basically drifting apart until on day Tina thinks she needs to get away for a while. And then she get hung up with her job and meets Carrie and all of a sudden she’s being carried away by the stream of life and away from Bette and from Angie. Tina becomes so engaged in her life and her schedule, that she simply fails to do any real self examination as to what it is she wants in life or how to resolve her prior life with Bette. So she does what is easy – she ignores her past life or as least avoids it. So Bette is left with a failed relationship which has no closure and no real understanding as to why it broke up. That is the reason Bette is having difficulty moving on.
As the author, you are the one who will have to explain this. And you have had a real good start with this chapter.
Thanks for this chapter….. Keep it coming…. i think your doing great.
Thank you for your thoughts. I had put a lot of thought into what the writers did and without a back story it just isn’t believable. I am a social worker by profession and the molestation stuff I jus couldn’t let go of, but that is just me.
Took me some time to catch up but I’m intrigued with your story line. You said, you are a Tibetter, right? So I trust that you will present a better solution/ending for the Tina and Bette situation than the LW GenQ did. Your background story already is!
Please keep writing, I’ll keep reading and commenting ;-)