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We are all in this together Ch 13
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”Do you want to talk about it?”
”About what?” Angie said as she turned to face Alice.
”What’s bothering you.”
”I don’t know.” She did know, but how was she going to tell Alice she was worried her parents might not be successful. It was so selfish. She would be going to college soon and their relationship would have little if any impact on her once she was gone. Her stomach turned when thinking about their separation. ”It was hard when they were apart,” she said in a soft voice.
Alice nodded. ”I know what you mean… It sucks, I have been through it a couple of times and it has never been easy… But I am sure it’s different for you.” Alice paused, ”Life is beautiful, it’s messy, it’s complicated. Sometimes something has to give, something has to break so that something can change… Am I making sense.”
Angie nodded her head.
In a low, emotion-filled voice, Alice said, ”The love your parents have for each other is unique, something I have never seen with any other couple. It’s kind of everything when you find someone who understand you, especially like your parents understand each other.” Alice crossed her arms and held herself, purposefully calming. Angie watched her earth mother struggle to settle her emotions. She had often done the same thing when her emotions got the best of her. If she calmed her body, she could calm her mind.
Angie smiled. She had always enjoyed listening to Alice’s stories about her parents when they were young. It helped her understand the undertones of the overall situation with her parents. She suspected Alice appreciated the genuine interest in her perspective of their relationship. Like most children when they are young, Angie thought their family was perfect and would never change. It was the complexity of the situation, Angie found herself trying to reconcile in her mind. Angie looked out across the yard watching her parents have a conversation with their bodies. She focused her thoughts on what Alice had said. A unique love.
”Angie?” Alice prodded.
”They are really trying; I can see the difference in how they act towards each other… Sometimes we are doing something together and they look at each other… it is so hard to explain, but you can feel how much they love each other.” Angie let out a long breath that she had been holding, ”They have these conversations with their eyes. They make their own private little world even when others are around.”
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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. ✍️✍️✍️✍️