To get my DPs and sons names tatood on me? Anyone any opinions? All welcome

[Kaedsmum]

We're getting married next year, we're not going to split up or anything and I think he's getting mine tatood.

I'd quite like to get his done in a nice discreet design as I don't like tatoos in general.

And my son will always be my son so no harm in getting that done.

What does everyone else think?

I sort of dislike tatoos because I tend to think they look gaudy and yucky, but DP has a lot and I like them on men. I'd like to make sure mine is very carefully and discreetly done.

I have the chinese symbol for love on my outer thigh/lower hip, and no-one but me and DH see it on a daily basis, it can be seen when going swimming or if i show anyone... so very discreet. I plan to get my DH's name above it, and my kids names under it once i've finished my family. I dont see harm in it if done tastefully!!

I personally don't like them but as glaskham said if it is in a discreet place there is no harm in it and you are an adult.

Getting a partners names tattooed is asking for trouble i think. As much as you think oh we'll never split up. What if you do? Would yo really want a permanent reminder of them. other option is a a cover up. which would leave your tastefull tattoo covered in something much bigger.

If you want to get your kids then fine like you said they'll always be your kids!

This is coming from someone that has a few tattoos. On the middle of my back and stomach/hip. Big mistake pregnancy stretched the latter good and propper in my defence i was 16 when i got it, and fooolish. If i could go back i wouldn't have bothered unfortunately that's not possible. A tattoos for life!

That isn't ment to be rantish if it comes across that way at all!

If you are not sure then don't do it
Lots of people think they are never going to split with their partner then they have a tattoo to cover up

only put your DC. Nobody who is getting married is expecting to split up, and hopefully you won't but,you would be so pissed off to have his name forever etched on you if you did! No offence intended, just realistic.

discreet and well-done, fine.

I wouldn't get teh dh's name on, though. You never know. You might not split up but he might bore the tits off you one day.

an ex of mine got my name tattoed on his arm... we split up 6 years later... i sometimes wonder if it is still on his arm....

NO NO NO!!! DON'T DO IT!!!

if you have to ask this question at all then any answer trying to dissuade you will carry no clout whatsoever

I wouldn't.
I have tatoos so I'm not against them in any way but you never know what the future holds.

It's entirely up to you though, I just say as I know someonme who has his whole back taken up with (to start) his and his then gf, eventually wife's name, followed by their only.
He now has those names, with 3 more children and another partner. It looks awful.

my dh has my name and is pestering me to get his done. if i dont its like saying 'i dont think we will be together for ever' so i am going to but have yet to decide where to put it.
if anything was to happen, then you could always cover it up with a bigger one
could you have his name in a chinese sign or some symbol instead?
i personally dont like chinese style tattoos, but it would be better than having the actual name as people wouldnt know what it said.

no, i would NEVER have a partner's or spouse's name tattooed on me unless they were dead.

lizandlulu just get one of those necklaces with his name on

Don't do it.
It is cheap and rough-never discreet and tasteful.
Yuck!!!

expat - pmsl

i dont think he would be fobbed off with that
plus i would rather have a tattoo than one of those!

if he wants you to do this and you don't then, er, don't. imo he's a t*er to put pressure on you to do this.

i think if you dislike tattoos you dislike tattoos and you shouldn't have them done. I think if you find them gaudy and yucky then that's how you find them and just because they are names of your loved ones it doesn't stop them being gaudy and yucky.

Why don't you get a piece of jewellery made with their initials

I don't like them (but then I'm not having them! ) I also think OW OW OW OW OW!! needles!

I think names tatooed on someone are, well, a bit common. (Oh I'm going to get kicked right round active convos for that) One step away from Love & Hate on your knuckles in blue ink, and MUM over a heart on your bicep

ok lizandlulu

as I said - if would even consider having a tattoo with someone's name on then nothing I can say will dissuade you

logic/commonsense is now lost on you

If your getting married then is there any chance that you will have the same intials?Or your child has the same intials as him you could get that done instead if so? Then it could take on another meaning if things didn't work out.

Just look at the average tattoo artist.Invariably as ruff as a bear's arse.

That is what you will look like when he is done with you.
Nuff said.

moondog is right

cept we say rough as badger's arse

Gaudy, tacky. There are other ways to show someone how much you love them other than scoring their name on your body. Sorry!