A blog called Trash the Dress, which bills itself as a repository for "stories of celebrating divorce in your 20s," has rounded up dozens of divorce tattoos on Pinterest.
It isn't the fact that the tattoos are posted....it was the "celebrating divorce in your 20's" part that struck me as....odd. Makes me wonder how many parents are gnashing their teeth over the fact they are still paying off the BIG DAY when the announcement that it is over has come across their emails. Weddings, along with tattoos, really need to be thought out a bit more wouldn't you say?
So - back to Trash the Dress......Each photo links to a post explaining that particular woman's inspiration and reasoning for getting a divorce tattoo.
"I have been planning this glitzy glamorous tattoo since I left my husband. He was strongly opposed to his wife getting a tattoo whilst we were married. He forbade me to," wrote Anna on trashedthedressonline.com. "It was so pretty in my head, it had three birds flying away from a cage, and they were to represent myself, and our two children, and our new found freedom from a controlling, manipulating, troll of a husband." WOW!!!! I have to wonder exactly when she discovered this about the husband....before after the second child?
"Twenty years from now I’m not sure I would want an inked memory of my state of mind during divorce," wrote divorce blogger Lisa Thomson. "It might trigger sad memories. Also, because we go through emotional highs and lows during divorce it might be kind of dangerous to make a permanent decision like getting a tattoo." Good points there Lisa.
Similarly, Elite Daily's Anthony Selden writes "you’re just giving yourself something to endlessly argue about throughout your next relationship. Just because you feel like you might have won an emotional war with your ex boyfriend doesn't mean you need to go get a tattoo commemorating yourself for moving on."
I do believe a lot of NEW spouses would agree with this. You don't want to get romantic and see .......I LOVE BOB (crossed out), LORNE (crossed out) ....YOU...FOREVER AND EVER AND EVER!!!!! (several cute little heart signs) emblazoned on your dearest.
AND THEN I came across this one....I couldn't even read it....running, ruining......ruminating?
Or you COULD do it with a song lyric:
'Cause you may not believe, mmm mmm mmm
That baby, I'm relieved, mmm
When you said goodbye, my whole world shined
Hey hey hey
It's a beautiful day and I can't stop myself from smiling
If we're drinking, then I'm buying
And I know there's no denying
It's a beautiful day, the sun is up, the music's playing
And even if it started raining
You won't hear this boy complaining
'Cause I'm glad that you're the one who got away
It's a beautiful day
- Michael Buble
Of course...years from now... they can always add another tattoo...."LMFOA.....OMG.....WTF was I thinking????" with an arrow to the tattoo they wish they didn't have!
Things I have learned this week:
I actually know several people who could use this sign:
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Steven Cohen raised eyebrows when he pulled off this bizarre stunt during an impromptu open-air show last September.
During the jaw-dropping routine, he danced on the tourist-filled Trocadero Plaza dressed in a corset, high heels, long red gloves and an elaborate feathered headdress... with a cockerel attached to his penis by a ribbon.
Tourists - including a group of nuns - looked on in bewilderment at the spectacle, which lasted only a few moments, before police arrested Cohen and dragged him off.
Apparently he was later set free....I don't know what happened to the cockerel.
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Okay...maybe not:
They can hide when they want to!
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