I’m terrified of needles (more like I hate the pain) but after having one kid and dealing with all the injections for blood work and what not, my skin has toughened up (not to mention all the self harm...). My husband was the one who came up with the idea of getting matching tattoos. I am
NOT a fan of name tattoos and thhankfully he isn’t either. So we got the sun and the moon with each other’s initials on the bottom
They are very sentimental and have so much meaning to them, even though it’s a simple sun/moon design. I have the sun with his initials under and he has the moon with my initials.
The context: I have clinical depression to start off. I’ve had it since I was in the 6th grade (around 10-11 years old), with its peak point being from 7th to 9th grade. This is where all my self harm and suicide attempts have came to play. So I’ve always seen myself being in the “darkness” never really able to truly find my “light” no matter how hard I tried. Well, when I met my husband (10th grade,2012) I was already ready to end my life, he was going to be my last try. And thankfully he understood what was going on, he accepted my condition and my scars and my mentality (yeah him being a year younger he was still a bit immature and had his moments but through it all he accepted it). He was the complete opposite of me, always seeing the good in things, he was so generous and kind.. I was honestly jealous of that. But soon after we had our first child, I felt myself become like him. I started opening up and at least
tried to get out of my comfort zone. Now, why the sun and the moon? It’s
so overdone! Right? Well, for me it’s not just a “omg that’s so cute! Let’s do it!” No, it’s more of the fact that the only reason why we see the moon is because it’s reflecting light given off by the sun. Before him I had nothing to really show, no one to really help me become who I am today. He has. He’s been the main person to really help me through my depression (which unfortunately I still have) and well most of who I am now is a reflection off of him. Not saying that in a bad way, just saying that he’s helped me be able to show off some “light” that he’s given to me. Also, we are Christians and that’s another way how he’s helped me. He’s helped me get back into Faith and worship and it’s really really helped out our relationship and that’s what made it bloom into a marriage
We got our tattoos as a wedding gift, something to signify what we meant to each other. And honestly it didn’t hurt at all. I’ve felt worse pain than a simple tattoo (XD child birth hurts fyi). It meant even more to us because it was our first time getting a tattoo and it was the start of our marriage. Heck we’ve been together for 6 years, we just celebrated our first year being married and honeslty im happy to be spending the rest of my life with him
He’s really helped me all these years. Literally if I did not meet him and I had met someone else who wasn’t accepting it would have been the end of the line for me. I wasn’t wanting to live past 18, but here I am.
about to celebrate my 21st and welcome our 2nd child to the world
And life couldn’t get anymore better for me. (We plan on getting another tattoo sometime this year before he deploys but sometime AFTER the baby is due, April. I was wanting to get a solo tattoo of a fox, based off my personality as well lol, but he wants another matching before he goes. So I rather take a matching with him any day! ^-^ )
And hey! Not every tattoo has to be significant, Im just that type of person who likes to get tattoos with meanings behind them. I’m not one to judge
And just cause I’m not a fan of name tattoos doesn’t mean I’m going to bash those that do
It’s what you liked/wanted
No shame in that! ^-^ Everyone can get what they want, where they want.