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“So you’re just leaving it up to me?”
“I love you Tina. I’ve already expressed that I want to give us a try but I won’t force you to be with me. As you said we’ll always have Angie to connect us. We’ll put her happiness first, but the fact is our current situation is not in her best interest either. Granted it’s great that she has both her parents living under the same roof but that’s the extent of it. We haven’t given her a ‘home’. We haven’t given her a nurturing family environment to grow and thrive in. There’s no warmth and affection towards one another. There are days when the tension between us is so palpable that I think it affects her moods. She gets clingy when I’m upset as if she’s trying to comfort me.
You saw for yourself tonight how she didn’t want to go to sleep because she’s been missing you. This isn’t good for any of us Tina. If it takes you sleeping with Josh Becker for you to come to some realities about who you are and what you want then so be it. Let’s just stop playing games with one another. There is too much at stake. We both have a lot to think about so let’s take a break from each other while I’m away at the retreat. We’ll table any further discussions until after I get back then we’ll figure out what we want to do. OK?”
“I meant what I said before Bette. I didn’t tell you this to upset you, but I have to say I didn’t expect that you’d be so calm about it.”
“Honestly Tina I don’t want to have a conversation with you right now about how I’m feeling. I promise we will talk when we are both in a place to say and hear what needs to be said. There are so many things going on in my head right now least of which is the connotation of what this says about our whole lives together. I know you were only ever with men before me Tina but we’ve been together for eight years. I thought the majority of those years were as happy and satisfying for you as they were for me. Now I’m doubting that what we had was even real to you.”
“God Bette please don’t say that.”
“You’re right Tina … let’s not even go there now. I just wanted to say that as much as this does hurt I do appreciate you for being honest with me. I wish I had had the courage to talk to you when I was trying to fight my attraction to Candace. Maybe if I had done so the affair might never have happened or maybe it was inevitable. Either way you were very brave to tell me. I think that’s a step in the right direction don’t you?”
“I needed to tell you. I don’t like hiding things from you Bette. I felt so guilty sneaking around and making excuses to see him.”
“I think I can relate to some of what you’re going through Tina. I don’t know what the outcome of this will be but I don’t have any right to be judgmental. I’ll give you whatever time and space you need to find your answers and I’ll take time and space to seek some of my own.”
The baby monitor crackled and they could hear Angelica fussing. Tina went to see to the baby while Bette washed the glasses and put away the wine. Tina was in the nursery breastfeeding Angie when Bette walked in. The baby was twirling Tina’s blonde hair between her fingers and staring up at her mother while at the same time taking the feeding. Tina held Angie close and looked up to meet Bette’s smile. Bette watched them from the doorway and thought my God I could really lose her for good this time.
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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.