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Chapter 3 – Tina and Carrie
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A New Life
Chapter 3 – Tina and Carrie
Tina slowly came down the stairs running over in her mind the conversation she had just had with her daughter. It had stunned her that Angie was not interested in living with her during her hiatus. It also loaded a ton of guilt on her shoulders when she learned that Bette definitely had not moved on from their relationship since the divorce. It had been two years since the divorce. She was going to have to have a conversation with Bette…a conversation that maybe they should have had two years ago.
Then it occurred to Tina, with the exception of the conversation that she had to announce that she was moving out of the house and asking Bette to assume the role of primary parent, there had been very little explanation as to what went wrong and why she was making the move she was making. It was a simple declaration that she needed some time and space to find herself and regroup and be whole again. She was simply lost and felt she was only half a person. Bette had very little to say. Bette sat there in shock, blindsided by Tina’s decision and intention to move out for a while. Even though Bette did not want the separation, she agreed to take care of Angie and would be available to Tina for whatever she needed. Bette had presumed that after a short period, they would get back together and discuss what was going on in Tina’s world and work things out. Tina had thought that also. But Tina accepted a position in Toronto and was on location there for six months. During her first hiatus, she had met Carrie, an artist who painted abstracts. She had met her at the studios in New York where she was supplying art for a TV series being filmed there. She was attracted to her but didn’t think much about Carrie until one evening she received a call inviting her to dinner. Tina went to dinner with Carrie and Carrie expressed an interest in dating Tina. Carrie was younger and exhibited an energy and an aura that appealed to Tina. It was at that point that Tina decided that she needed to end her marriage of seven years and her relationship of 19 years. Her moral background and conscious dictated that she could not date other women while she was still married to Bette Porter.
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What can i say, Tina has seen the light and is finally going to try to talk with Bette about her decision to leave and then the divorce. She should have done that three years ago when she asked for time to figure herself out. The only positive i can say that she filled for divorce before getting in a relationship with Carrie.
So Carrie is nine years younger than Tina. Did Tina fall for the midlife crisis that she just throwed away her life with Bette, her supposed love of her life, just because Carrie, a much younger woman gave her attention when she was supposed to search herself and in the progress damaged her relationship with Angie because she without a real thought throwed away and moved away from her family?
And Carrie, damn, how could you think and say out loud that Bette should have done more and prepared Angie and that when Angie would see how happy they both are that Angie would be oh so happy for them while she feels Tina left her and Bette behind without any explanation and in Angie her eyes is starting a new family.
Both Tina and Carrie spoke after that with good insights but still, i really dislike how Tina handled everything in the past three years.
Best decision of Tina is to postpone the wedding. I don’t know if Bette is that open to a conservation with Tina, they need to talk but in my opinion on Bette’s timeline.
I can see that you are really involved in this story. This may not go exactly as you suggest. Let’s just say that the story will proceed in what I hope you will find to be a satisfactory manner and result. This particular scenario is a hard nut to crack and to make into a reasonable satisfying ending. But that is what Gen Q gave us – a totally unreasonable and unexplained breakup and then a fairy tale ending. And to top it off, they gave very little connection from the breakup to the reunion marriage. No continuity and no logic. And that is the purpose of this story is to suggest some path and method to get from breakup to happily ever after. Hang with me Bibi…. together we will get there. Or at least an honest attempt to get there.
Thanks for your comment.
Hey Martha,
Already posted my comment on chapter 4 before i read your reply to me.
GenQ was a disaster, no plotlines and left us bewildered. I’m glad you try to make sense of their breakup and their rekindled relationship and ultimately their second marriage.
I don’t care if you write it different than i expect, you are the writer and I’m in for this journey.
How can Tina possibly fall in love with anyone better than Bette…is Tina’s head so messed up she can’t see what’s right in front of her?? She was attracted to her in NY? That doesn’t seem to be the actions of someone trying to find herself.
Her moral background and conscious, lacked a bit, as she was ready to start looking again !
Good for Angie, laying it on the line as well, almost making it tough for Tina to thinking everything with her and Bette has been OK for the last 3 years !! Did she not really know Bette at all !
And what kind of mother only sees her daughter on high days and holidays? ☹️
‘She then called Bette and told her that she had met someone, and Bette would be receiving divorce papers within days. This was about a year after the separation. Bette was devasted’.
– This is an awful way to be told your being divorced, no wonder Bette was devastated, she didn’t know why she had no chance of fighting to save her marriage!
I can see how Tina wants to make it right with Angie and so she should be …. but it seems she is calling of the marriage to Carrie, very easily…almost to easily… did she really love her at all, I’m wondering?
Really getting into this, loving it
Janice,
Sometimes people simply do not think things through. They just respond in the moment. I think Tina was lonely. Carrie was young, attractive and showed Tina some attention. As you will see Carrie was convenient and she fit Tina’s lifestyle at the moment. Tina is totally consumed by her job and Carrie is only available part time. So read on and let’s see what happens.
Thanks for reading and commenting.