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“You know Tina I thought Helena Peabody was the only one suffering from a sadistic personality disorder but it seems maybe it’s contagious. Do you get a perverse pleasure out of hurting me? Is that what this is all about?”
“It’s not what you think Bette. I’m not telling you this to hurt you. I’m actually trying to stop the hurt that I’ve inflicted on you ever since I saw you touching hands with Candace and figured out that you two were having an affair.”
“So you fucking Josh Becker is what? Payback for me fucking Candace. Now we’re even is that it?”
“I know you have every right to be angry. I understand why you might think this is about revenge but that’s not it. It’s late and we’re both tired. We’ve already said too many hurtful things to each other. Believe me I’m just trying to tell you something. I’m not doing it maliciously. I’m not trying to upset you. I’m just trying to talk to you. You wanted us to communicate better right?”
“Yeah, but if I’d known that you were about to drop a bombshell I might have qualified it.”
“I’m sorry I blurted it out like that. I didn’t mean to do that. It was out before I even realized it. I’ve just been laying here thinking about what you said about interacting in a more healthful manner and making time to deal with all our shit. I want to do all that, but I need to tell you this first. Afterwards if you still want to take the time apart or go to the couple’s retreat, or take some time for just ’us’ then I’ll do it. I’ll do whatever you want. Just hear me out.”
“What’s going on with you Tina … I don’t understand this? In one breath you tell me that you fucked your producer and in the next you tell me you are willing to work on us. An hour ago you said you weren’t emotionally ready to deal with any of this?”
“I don’t expect you to understand Bette. I don’t even understand it myself, that’s why we need to talk. Just give me a chance to explain. As for working on us no matter if we stay together or not we will always be connected by Angelica. We owe it to her as parents to be able to talk to each other civilly and to make joint decisions that concern her. Judging by what it said in the literature I think that retreat will be a good start. I just need you to try to hear me out first. Can you do that Bette? Can you just hear me out?”
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Thanks BAT. A turning point you say but which way will you take us.
TINA needs a reality check.BETTE keeps hoping but if TINA continues on this path after the retreat and if the past is any indication of her intentions then BETTE is just fighting for nothing.Cyber sex or wtf ever is still sex.Maybe she needed to tell BETTE but it was the delivery not the content of the message.pps thanks
I am still reading, but it is very difficult to read this. It is a good thing that Tina talked to Bette but it was better if she had done that in the beginning. They need to take a break and Bette is right in that.
In my opinion they should break up and work at them selfs to grow and be a better person , maybe after their time out they can begin to work at their relationship.
But for now i really dislike Tina ,and Bette deserves more and needs to grow back to the confident, strong Alpha she was without losing her kind loving side.
Ok, back to celebrating my birthday!
Can I say that I hate Tina very much at this moment. And is Bette really willing to ‘let Tina explore her feelings’ for Josh – what exactly is it that she expecting and would she really take Tina back if she were to let Josh fuck her? That’s something so out of character for her that I don’t believe that is what I think she is telling Tina to do. Hopefully Tina thinks really hard before giving into what she thinks she wants/needs because it could damage their already shaken relationship beyond repair.
I really have a lot of faith in your storytelling but at this point I just want Bette to get as far away from Tina as possible and find herself someone else after she put herself back together to her strong confident self.
Thanks for this part! I hope Tina uses the time out to rethink her situation. My theory was always that Tina suffered from post-natal depressions and that made her so …aaarrrrrgh! ;)
I’m glad that you gave us her thoughts on the situation, it feels at least not quite as frustrating as it did in the show. Please don’t let her follow through with her attraction to Josh (or men) and have her sleep with him. I never saw Tina as a woman how would do the ‘tit for that’ thing to get back at Bette for her infidelity.
Chatting is a start, even if it was Tina
admit to having feelings for Josh, and I hope this is just a
phase and not come to fruition because I’m dragging me
with difficulty to this story. It is sad to see this fight that our couple comes
taking, because unfortunately Bette and Tina are just two people living together and very close-by date.
The complete constellation.
When I posted this story the first time I received very similar comments and reactions to Tina’s behavior. I know this is difficult and in my opening Author’s notes I did say that Tina’s character would probably be worse (less likable) in my version than on the show. I’m not doing that to put Tina in a bad light or to make everyone ‘hate’ her. She’s actually a very tragic character in that she’s struggling with some very serious issues and she doesn’t know how to handle them. I agree that her outburst of ‘I fucked Josh Becker’ and her confession about the cyber-sex was ill-advised at that particular time. They were both in an emotional turmoil from all that had already taken place that night. Tina needed to unburden herself of the guilt without any thought to how Bette would receive it. Bette took it as if Tina was deliberately trying to hurt her, when in fact Tina was screaming out for HELP. Instead of recognizing the desperation Bette dismissed it and basically told Tina … “go figure it out yourself, I can’t tell you what to do.” Tina doesn’t have the balance and support that Bette has in her meditation, spiritual adviser, Dana, Lara and Kit. She’s stuck with Alice and Helena as her confidants. She doesn’t have an impartial person like an adviser or therapist to guide her through. That’s not to say that she doesn’t have free will to make the right choices, but I think Bette could have helped her more and maybe saved some additional heartache and heartbreak later on. Secondly Bette is not the martyr. Admittedly she’s taken some emotional abuse from Tina and she’s living with the fear that Tina could at any time take Angie away from her but she’s got history too. She’s not going to get a free pass in this story. They will both need to own up to their responsibility for the demise of the relationship and also for the re-building.