Bette: Okay, kids now some of the stuff we are going to say may not be easy to hear, but just please listen. Okay?

AJ,Graham, Jaime & Kate: Yeah!

Tina: Okay, the affair started not long after I lost the baby.

AJ: WHAT!

Bette: OH, did Shane forget to mention that part.

AJ: Yeah. Mom & Momma I am sorry for my behavior earlier, I… I just thought that what you two had was always perfect and you always made it seem that way in front of us.

Tina: Alyssa, honey I understand that you were angry with me, but you have to understand that me having the affair in no way meant that I didn’t love your momma.

AJ: Then why did you have the affair?

Tina: It was a diffucult time. I just lost the baby, your brother and your momma was working hard on an exhibit. She was just so busy and I didn’t want to burden her with my pain.

Bette: Your mom and I weren’t communicating and we both shut each other out after the miscarriage. I was trying to be strong, like everyone wanted me to be. I couldn’t be there for you mother when she found out about the baby and it killed me.

Tina: Then Faye Buckely attacked your momma and the CAC for the show that they were putting on.

Kate: Provacations, right? Aunt Alice and Aunt Dana talk about it all the time.

Bette: Right, sweetie. Anyways I was to busy to realize that we were drifting apart. By the time I realized it was to late.

Tina: I needed to be needed by someone, that someone just happened to be Helena Peabody. She wanted me and I wanted her only because she wanted me. I was attracted to her, sure. But I did not love her like I love your momma.

Graham: Then why did you leave momma and run to New York with Helena?

Tina: Because it was the easiest thing to do. I didn’t want to accept the responsibilty for my actions. So I just left.


Bette: I was horrified when I found your mom in our bed. I thought that it was my fault, that I pushed her to Helena. I realized that it was just as much as my fault as it was your mom’s fault.

Tina: All of our friends assumed that your momma had cheated on me. I let them believe it until, Helena asked me to move to New York with her.

Bette: What stunned me the most is that they actually thought that I was capable of cheating on your mom. I mean just because I was the only woman that your mom has been with and that she was straight doesn’t mean that I have heart to cheat on the love of my life.

Tina: Baby, what I did wasn’t fair to you. I put you through so much pain. Pain that you didn’t deserve. I’m sorry.

Bette: T, I know that you are sorry. But by you cheating it really showed how much we really loved each other.

Kate, Graham, AJ & Jaime: It did?

Bette: Yes! If I didn’t love your mother so much, do you think that any of us would be here right now. I fought for our love and our love prevailed.

Bette: Now this is how I fought for your mothers love against Helena Peabody……


TBC- Bette tells the kids about how she fought Helena for Tina’s affections in NYC.