When I was 19 and so I love I moved over seas to be with him as he was in the Navy. We lived over there for a year together.
It was an absolute dream. Living in a romance movie. On my 20th birthday over there i got a tattoo. A Robben to say new beginnings. On my thigh to cover up self halm scars. I never really liked it as what I asked for wasn't what I got. He went in with me and he got a Robben on his foot and underneath he got a banner with his daughter's name in it. He told me he was going to get another one on the other foot I asked what he was going to do underneath. He replied with another banner but I'm going to cover it in as I'm not having any more kids.
So here I am 5 years later with a tattoo on my thigh with an ugly blue out line that I can't seem to add anything to as it is highlighted. If I do it will probably have to be bright to all match.
We seperated a year after we returned home he was abusive I was pregnant and he didn't want her. I left after many hits from him. And his never met his daughter just like he said I don't want any more kids.
I want to get it covered up. I have something that I want a watch with my daughters birth time and a little deer as that's her nickname. And it was mine when I was a kid "Bambi" but then I look at the bird and it brings back the time I was so I love, sickly actually, in another country in a house with everything I could ever ask for. But then there is the other side to it that we got matching ones and it might be time to let go?
What would you do keep it or cover it?
Keep a tattoo or cover it
Keep a tattoo or cover it
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I’d get rid of it. It’s time to stop living in the past and celebrating the guy you wished he was. He was abusive and so what you are celebrating is not something to be celebrated.
It’s time to celebrate and remember something truly special, and that’s your daughter, the good thing that came out of that toxic mess. It’s time to look forward and work towards true happiness.
I’d keep it, I had this way in life where I think things you do shape you as a person and this tattoo can be a reminder of how strong and resilient you are. It’s your past and embrace it.
But if it’s really causing angst and you’re hurt by it, then have it lasered. I understand people don’t have the same philosophy as myself :)