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Walking After You ch. 17
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"Bette, I don’t do this."
"What?"
"I can’t do this right now. Please."
"Do you believe me? I never wanted those words to become a means of distraction. I never meant for them to become the answer to every question, to every problem. Do you believe me?"
"What the hell are you saying?"
"Every day I tell you I love you. But I never talk to you. About anything important. I just thought the words were enough to tell you. Everything. Tina, I know you can’t read my mind. I’m sorry if I’ve acted as though you could."
Tina pulled one hand away to run it through her hair in frustration.
"Bette, you really want to do this now? Okay. Look, I don’t get you. I don’t get it. I’m probably the most stupid person in the world, but I just can’t figure you out."
"I know. It’s not your fault."
"It’s not yours either! Don’t you dare blame yourself for all of this!"
Tina stood up and started to pace. "God Bette you frustrate me so much! I never know what you want! One moment you’re needy; the next you’re remote. I feel like I’m in the middle of a storm here. When you’re getting ready to go out, and I can’t go with you, you look at me like a puppy dog! I feel like you’re pleading with me to go but if I ask you if you want me to go with you, you say no! When I ask you how your day went, you say fine and leave it at that! Then when I walk away, I feel your eyes on me like I killed your best friend. What do you want from me?"
"I resent that you have things going on in your life that don’t involve me, okay?!" Bette yelled. "And I HATE that I feel that way! Fuck!"
"And I resent that YOU changed the FUCKING rules!"
"What rules?!"
"Of the way things are between us! You stopped talking to me. You stopped being interested in things going on in my life. You stopped, you fucking stopped, wanting me!"
"Never!"
"You stopped needing me!"
"I was letting you live your life!"
"You are part of my life!"
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Angst and frustration but I stll love the story
one minute they seem so much in love and the other…drama!thank you for this story.Sorry to hear about Maine.
What a ride on the B&T Roller-coaster!
this is so how it can get though…maybe not as dramatic maybe more…but fear just projects all this stuff out at each other and slowly you move away. I feel thaey are getting closer to listening to each other…so I am keeping the faith
Just caught up with the story, and SO glad that I did! What an incredible job you are doing writing this. You know I loved the first story, and now this story has wrapped itself around me. Thank you for coming back to us to continue this story of Bette and Tina.
yes, you made me sad but i trust you…B&T should have couple’s therapy or keep talking, sometimes letting things out even in anger and frustration can help
Oh no this is bad and sad, hope they will calm down and talk and work things out. Please post more, thanks!
Bette needs to be stopped before she kills the relationship. Tina is only human. Thanks. Painful but, thanks!
I think both B&T need to go to therapy together. They both have things to say to each other, but don’t know how to say them. Bette’s insecurities and Tina’s past are colliding. They seriously need help. A very intense update. PPSAs for Maine,f**k you. I think we should get our own state and pass our own laws.
Hrm, they’re both doing things to push the other away. Tina knows good and well that if Bette finds out the real reason she’s on a first-name basis with her professor, then Bette’s going to freak out. And Bette… where to start with Bette? She doesn’t want to be needy, but she seems to need a lot. Maybe they really should both see Dr Morga together. Cos what they’re doing isn’t quite working… Great writing, thanks 7. (And as for Maine being the latest state to show how its constituents just can’t frigging see sense…. It all makes me want to throttle people, en masse. *sigh*)
well that went well :0 its good bette recognizes that she was pulling away, creating a self fulfilling prophecy by acting in a way that makes it more likely tina will leave her – but i so wish the last part didnt happen – ouch. always blaming herself but being unable to get over her fears doesnt help either. i dont know if therapy will help them or what – tinas clearly hurt & angry at how things changed tho it wasnt expressed (or maybe she never allowed herself to really feel in her ‘caretaker’ role for bette) til now. not sure what will break on thru but i trust that youll fix them again somehow :-) thanks 7pm and PPS
Well at least they are talking even though it went all wrong. They both need to see the therapist. Thank you for this story.
at least they talked, however awful the talking went…great writing…hopefully, they will reconcile their differences before Tina gets too entangled with this Harriett. PPS
Wow, it’s like watching a train wreck seeing these two try to communicate….ouch. Time for a good couples therapist, this is beyond being something they can just talk through themselves.
Holy Hell!! Love! Hate! Love! The agony of it replicated by the agony of B and her busted arm. Painful. How many bits of the arm can she break b4 they get thru this?
Hey 7PM, Another tough and aggressive argument between Bette and Tina. All these gals seem able to do at the moment is fight. They are pulling each other apart.I do agree that couples therapy is in order. Perhaps by having a trained thrird party in the room will help them actually listen and understand with the other is trying to say without flying off the handle and proving how little this moments mean to them.Bette is in pain and still refuses to let Tina help. Tina is getting mad and frustrated at this rejection.I do hope they sort through their issues soon.I am happy that we in Britain have the good sense to se the validity of gay marriage and continue to support same sex civil partnerships. Shame that teh US democracy does not feel the same.7PM, you rock!Many thanks from Your Loyal Fan.