Beth Sabatino
Art After 5, ch 37-38

Chapter 37
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How often we protect ourselves when we are going through some negative emotional extreme by merely existing. That is a hard cycle to break from. Luckily, Bella is in therapy at this time, because it is probably the only thing that will keep her from losing herself in herself.

Bella has had the first glance that she is not quite the puppeteer that she thinks she is. That she can't control the hurt of others or how they exist when not in her presence.

Chapter 38
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Bella came off as very petulant at the beginning of the chapter, and then I realized that, emotionally, she is stunted. She is frozen as the confused girl who was rejected by her mother. Love or loyalty is absolute in her mind, and that is selfish and childish.

I am so glad you had Edward be emotionally withdrawn and borderline indifferent to Bella at the bris. She doesn't deserve his attention or the right to request his audience. She, of all people, should know that forgiving someone you love who has rejected you so outright is not something that you can do on the turn of a dime. She is a bit of a hypocrite for expecting it of him, when she can't even bring herself to write the letter she will never send to her mom as Tanya suggested.
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