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We are all in this together Ch 13
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Nat laughed with her, ”Yep, just like those.” She shrugged her shoulders. Out of the corner of her eye, she saw in the distance, that Tina and Alice had finished their workout. She tilted her head, ”Looks like they are done.”
Tina in the distance looked over and saw Nat and Bette looking towards she and Alice. She grabbed a towel and while she patted herself, she watched. She knew that look on Bette’s face. Bette was struggling. She knew it and why. How she was going to help Bette come to peace with all that had happened, all that she had done, was a loss to her. In truth, she wasn’t really sure herself sometimes. When she is alone with her thoughts, she pondered what she had done and no matter how she twisted it, the fault was her lack of faith in Bette’s ability to understand and Tina’s inability to communicate her feelings effectively. She sighed as she turned cocking her head at Alice indicating she was heading out. She grabbed her water and began walking towards Nat and Bette with a smile.
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Shane stared deep in thought at the wall full of pictures. She had done a great job at capturing the history of the people she loved so dearly, she thought to herself. On the wall, was a large makeshift frame that was now covered, every inch of it, with colored contact sheets. It was as big as a picture window. Some strips of photos hung vertically, some horizontally. Occasionally they crossed each other. No title, as of yet, as it was a work in progress. The life of her chosen family.
She let her eyes move arbitrarily. They settled now on a strip of several photos, a party, with the whole gang. Dana with a woman in the back that she thought was Tonya. Shane chuckled; she had never noticed Dana’s ex-fiancé in the picture. Four in a row at a Pride parade, waving flags. There was Alice, Dana and Helena. Shane stared closely at the fourth, a very pregnant Tina. The look on her smiling face, but her eyes so sad. What a difficult time that was for Tina. Bette standing at a bar, with a drink in one hand and a cigarette in the other. What was Bette looking at so longingly… Probably Tina, it looked about the same time. Shane coughed. She reached in her pocket for a handkerchief and wiped her mouth.
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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.
I’m really loving the story. It’s not easy to include Covid in a plot but you’re doing it in a neat and involving way. I also love the path you’re giving to their reconciliation. Problems and regrets don’t magically disappear even when a couple really wants and works for a new start. The way a recent trauma or a new source of excitement can trigger old trauma and can change perspective on choices and non choices is powerfully explored, and it’s even more interesting because you’re opening the fic to the whole family. Great read!
Hello….just finished a other story of yours and loved it. I surely hope you will update with more chapters to continue this story. From other comments other fans also hope you will continue. Thanks so much and hope to see you update soon. ✍️✍️✍️✍️