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We are all in this together Ch 13
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”Yeah, I can see how that could be tough,” she said nodding her head with a tight linear grin on her face. ”Have you reached out to your therapist? I mean, this is something that could cause problems for you, maybe with her help you can find some peace with what happened. I mean, I know you have a lot of abandonment issues.” Nat stopped with that comment not wanting to reveal all that had been disclosed about Bette to her by Alice.
Bette averted her gaze, not wanting to go down the path of her abandonment issues, a touchy subject that seemed to bleed into every crevice of her life. ”I have spoken about it to her, but now… It is almost impossible to get an appointment.” She paused, ”You know that… I mean, everything is done on Zoom now. People are really struggling with this isolation thing. I just…” Bette sighed.
Nat watched Bette and could see the struggle. ”When you and Tina decided to go down this path, you knew it would not be easy. There would be bumps, big bumps.” Nat tilted her head and waited for Bette to look at her.
Bette shifted her gaze back to Nat once again. ”I don’t think either of us thought it would be this hard. There is just so much… I had no idea that Tina felt consumed by me and that getting away from me… putting so much distance between us was the only thing she could do to find herself… It’s hard to wrap my head around the idea that the person I love the most in the world, that I would give the world to and lay my life on the line for was being hurt by me just being myself.”
”I’m sure, that is hard to digest. But she loved you enough to come back, knowing you and all that you are is what she loves.” Nat lifted her brows. ”You just have to keep talking. There will be things, life is that way, but if you are both committed, I am sure you will be able to work through what is thrown at you guys.”
Bette laughed, ”Right, like a lost painting, a deceased lover and a crazy ass bitch.”
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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.