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We are all in this together Ch 13
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”Why aren’t you out there?” Nat tilted her head giving an inquiring look.
”Yeah, well, Spinning was their thing. Kinda like a bonding opportunity,” Bette said giving a toothy grin. ”I do Yoga, weights… I like to work out by myself. I like being in my head.” She paused and smiled, ”And please, working out with Alice, I would end up killing her. She would never stops talking.”
Nat joined in with a laugh and a nod.
Both women then stood in a comfortable silence.
Bette liked this woman. Strangely, that counted for a lot. Alice and Shane always looked for the final approval of the serious ones and that approval always needed to come from the matriarchs, Bette and Tina. Bette’s instincts about Nat were correct from the beginning and she fit nicely into their little self-made family. It was definitely tough for both Alice and Shane during Bette and Tina’s break up. No one really understood how much they were the glue until they weren’t.
”How are things going with you two?” Nat asked.
Bette shifted her gaze and gave Nat a puzzled look. ”What do you mean?”
”Well, you two have been cooped up together for almost half a year, so soon after you decided to come back together as a couple.” Nat paused, trying to read Bette. She knew she was treading on a difficult subject, but she felt she had developed a strong enough relationship with both women to allow such a personal question. ”I mean, are you guys talking, really talking?”
Bette continued to look out shifting her gaze up towards the mountains. ”I would like to think we are, but there are times…” Bette took a slow sip of her coffee as she thought about if she wanted to open up to this woman. She was a therapist. She was hoping the inquiry was more as a friend and not to start any psychobabble if she gives up some of what she is thinking. Bette sighed, ”Sometimes, no matter how hard we both try, there are issues that keep coming up that stir up so much emotion. It’s like we think we have worked through…” She paused again not sure how much to reveal. She needed to talk out some things away from Tina and her usual go to person, Shane, wasn’t around. Bette closed her eyes and looked down taking in a long breath. ”I keep bringing up that she left. How she left me and Angie and how she did not show up for Kit’s funeral.” Bette, shifted, turning to face Nat. ”We talk it through, things are then fine and then something comes up and it triggers me. Before I know it, I get angry, hurt and I don’t even want to look at her. It is not all the time, but sometimes it feels like I am sorta testing her, pushing her to see if she is gonna leave. It’s like I mean to do it, so I can brace myself for her next unexpected move… and the look she gives me… I see hurt, subtle anger. But also, the understanding. What I am doing makes no sense to me, but she seems to get it. I love her and I don’t want her to leave but…” Bette let out the breath that she had been holding, shaking her head while she looked down again. ”It’s hard reconciling that she tried to cut out that part of her life that was me.”
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Welcome back!!
Got the notification yesterday that you had posted.
Great writing as always.
Such a dark time for Tibette with the pandemic still raging and their personal issues they are working through as a couple once again.
Don’t stay away so long next time!
Thanks for this treat.
Still sticking to this story!
Welcome back!
Wow Alice, great talk and advice she gave Angie.
It’s hard to reconcile and more harder with Covid but i have faith in our ladies. Bette opened up to Nat and i really hope she talks to Tina and Tina to Bette, be open about their feelings, their concerns. In other words, they need to communicate instead of holding it in and in Tina’s case at the end run away.
Please don’t let us wait that long for another chapter, i need to know that Shane will be alright!
I am a little lost in this story. I had thought that Tina and Bette had been through much therapy and resolved many of their issues such as the reason Tina left and why she and Bette drifted apart. And although the time of Tina’s leaving was a tumultuous time for Bette as Kelly was trying to destroy her career as well as her personal relationship falls apart. I have a hard time seeing Tina being upset with Bette for not telling her about this episode in her life. When people are apart, there are going to be things which are not communicated to the other party. And meaningfulness of the missed communications is in the eyes of the beholder. Bette feeling that it was a painful time during her life and believing perhaps falsely that it was done and dusted would have been a natural omission from their conversations. It is only that Kelly has resurfaced that made it necessary to tell Tina what happened. But Tina must assume some responsibility as she was not available in real time to assist Bette in dealing with this episode in her life. Its purely a by product of the separation. My advice to Tina is to deal with the here and now and set the past aside.
I would also like to see Tina become a little less self obsessed and a little more engaged in the relationship. I would give the same advice to Bette. Look for something in your lives which the two of you can work on as partners and contributors to the final results. Living in the same house as housemates with benefits does not naturally build a relationship. There must mutual goals and some interaction besides attraction and sexual desire to make of a close and committed relationship. With the Covid shutdown possibly drawing to a close, they have missed a golden opportunity to build that partnership and mutual goals that long term relationships require. At this point, both Tina and Bette are just waiting for the return to normalcy whereby their jobs will continue and their separate lives will go on. Tina will have much out of town travel. Bette will have her gallery and Angie will be off to school. And their relationship will hang together because the love each other, and even desire each other, but are suspicious that the other will not behave as they would like.
To me, Tina has not proven that whatever caused them to break up in the past will not become a problem again. And Tina is still having a problem in accepting Bette for who she is. I still do not see where is this “domineering” woman that Tina believes Bette to be. To me, this is simply a false perception that Tina has. If Tina feels that she is living in Bette’s shadow and fears such, then she lacks self awareness and of what is really going on. Tina holds the job and the profession she chooses. She participates in the activities she wishes to participate in. She makes her choices with and without consulting Bette. That does not appear to be a dominating force. To me, Tina needs to decide whether she wants to live with Bette as a roommate or have a truly committed joint partnership with Bette. And that to me is where Bette wonders if Tina will up and bolt the relationship once again. And this is such a concern that even Angie sees this as a concerned that her parents will be together in the long run. And none of this is progressing Bette and Tina’s relationship into a more stable and committed one. I see much more trouble ahead.
I appreciate you writing the chapter… look forward to the next.
PS. Let Shane be alright. No more Covid deaths please.