Why is tattooing your partner's name tacky? Read below.?

Question

A lot of people call this action tacky. Maybe you should adjust who you partner up with. My wife and I have matching tats with our names. We've been together since highschool. Maybe, just maybe, some of us won't break up.

Answer 1

Congratulations, Blair. I am so happy for you that you are so complete in your relationship.

I don't think it is about name tattooing being tacky, it is more about the odds. We all know them...I have seen 30-year marriages break up. I have seen women lose their husbands to accidents and illness. I have seen those same women remarry.

I have also seen many couples come into the studio for name tattoos that were the "ideas" of ONE of the pair. MANY times you can see how obviously reluctant the other one is to get it. We end up spending some time having them come up with something more symbolic of a happy shared time, rather than the name. It is great to remember a happy time, it is hard to look at a name when the marriage went sour or there is a new spouse/partner having to see it every day.

People liken the name thing to a branding or ownership rather than a sharing of a partnership. That is just how it is.

Answer 2

Its not tacky. Its just something that is later often after a breakup considered a BAD choice. Tat artists will always advise against it and some refuse to do it becuase of that. The fact is that statisictly more than half more like 75 percent of couples those of which get names of the other will break up and later regret the choice to get the tat. Tat artists will advise anyone getting the tat to wait until they are in a long term relationship one that is NOT fresh or in contant turmoil. it dosent mean everyone who gets that tat will later regret it I was married 9 years got divroced and am now back with the person I was with even when we were going through the divorce I did not in anyway regret the tat as nothing could change the fact that at some point he had been a big part of my life something of great importance there for something not to be forgotten ..... but alot of people just simply dont look at it that way ... It is an opinion not tacky ...

Answer 3

I don't think it's tacky at all! I hate when people talk trash about someone who has their spouse's name tattooed. My husband has my name tattooed on his arm and I'm going to get his name really soon. When I see someone with their partner's name tattooed, I love it. I think that it's great that they want to show how much they love a person and show it off. It's really not tacky. Some people wouldn't do it, and that's fine, but they shouldn't judge the people that have done it or are going to do it. I know that if someday me and my husband do end up divorced, I wouldn't regret getting his name tattooed because he was a very important part of my life. I'm really glad that you and your wife have stayed together. I hope I'm that lucky!

Answer 4

I personally love the idea of it.
I don't care what level a couple is on, for that moment they're feeling someone enough to get their significant other's name tattooed on them.
That's a choice only you can make, and people can also choose to hold a tattoo like that lowly and call it tacky, but who cares, right?
Whether or not that name is in your life for forever, or a day, it means/meant something.
Plus cover-ups are all the rage these days. Haha.

Answer 5

I'm 23 at 16 I started dating my ex, and we just split last month. So from highschool we dated 7 years straight and lived together from day one. Some people change and he did. I really wanted to get his name or at least get matching tattoos, but now I am glad I didn't because even though I left him it was still a very hard split.
Congrats on staying with your highschool sweetheart, it does happen.

Answer 6

I do not think it is tacky. My hubby has my name tattooed on his back. It's a way of expressing your love for someone. Even if you two go your seperate ways, you love for that person was once there. Now a days, if you wish, you can always get it removed or covered up by another tat.

Answer 7

I think to each its own like u said everyone isnt gonna break up. nut i know a few people that have gotten there mates name on there body n they either broke up or divorced and u would think marriage is forever right. As for me personally i wouldnt get no ones name on my body but my mother(Which i already have) and my kids when i have some because that will never change she will always be my mother and they will always be my children. But i would get a matching tattoo that symbolize our relationship thatz what me and my boyfriend is tryna do now get matching tattoos. I wouldnt want anyone to get my name tattooed on there body and i have had a few people that wanted to but thatz jus me. If getting ur mates name on ur body works for you so be it i cant judge u becuase its ur body and hopefull ya'll stay together

Answer 8

Alright. You want to hear my funny story about this??
I was getting a tattoo on my wrist, and I was harassing my artist telling "Matt, I want your name tattooed on my butt..." so then he really asked me if he could, and I said "Why the hell not??' (I have known him since we were both little). So he went in the back to ask my fiance if this would be OK with him, and Greg (my fiance) thought he was kidding, so he said "sure, do whatever the hell that you want!!" but then Matt felt bad that I would have his name on my butt and not my fiances, so I now have "GREG AND MATT 4-EVER" on my right butt cheek in red (he drew it in script with drips coming off of it). It looks like it was an inscription a teenager carved into a tree with a switchblade. Matt wants to cover it up, and it would be a simple cover since it is in red, but I really think it is symbolic of that point in my life, and Greg has been sleeved by Matt, so it is really cool.

That is my funny story.

Answer 9

exactly!!
the last time i checked, marriage was supposed to be till death do us part.
i would never get married if i had even the SLIGHTEST doubt in my mind that it wouldn't last, and since i am getting married this July, i know that i want to be with this person forever.
just because some people are getting married in a Vegas drive through after a drunk night out on a vacation, doesn't mean we all are.
i would get my fiances name tatted on me in a heartbeat, just another way to show my love for him, that WILL last forever!!

Answer 10

People say that once you tattoo your partners name on yourself that you're bound to break up. I have somebody's name on me and we are no longer together. However, I think that if you do it as a token of love rather than to prove your love then it's ok, because the reasoning behind it is more valid and your relationship is probably stronger.