Boyfriend's Name Tattoo!

If you believe in superstition you are probably part of the population that believes that as soon as you tattoo your significant other's name on you, you are dooming the future of that relationship. I am probably one of the few that feel that particular superstition is, for lack of a better word, bullshit. I think what makes people believe this is true is because some of these relationships often times DO fail. But I doubt that the tattoo was the culprit. I believe that the tattoo was just done for all the wrong reasons. Sometimes it is used as a sad attempt to salvage a relationship that was going to fail in the first place. Some people use tattoos as a means of guilting the other party into sticking it out a little longer. In a sense they're saying "Hey, I got your name on me, we're stuck together forever anyway so we might as well make it work". Anytime you try to force someone to stay with you, whether it's emotionally, physically or symbolically with a tattoo, you're destined for disaster.

Often times the relationship was never truly understood. Again, this isn't the tattoos fault is it? If you are deeply in love with your boyfriend, enough to get his name sketched onto your body permanently, can you blame him if he doesn't feel the same way (about you OR the tattoo)? A lot of times we feel a certain way and either expect someone else to automatically feel the same, or just get so excited that we rush to make a commitment without thinking. Tattoos are a commitment. They're permanent. Commitment's scare certain people.