The Tattoo-Off: Spouses Strut Their Stuff

Thanks to those of you who sent in photos of your tattoos and explained what they represented. Your stories are very interesting. I got the inspiration for this post from SGT Danger, click here for background.

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The one on the left says family. I know this because Sarah was able to have her friend confirm it for me. Even after the ridiculous internet sleuthing I did before taking it in to the tattoo shop, I have always secretly feared it said something totally different and completely inappropriate. :-p

The one on the right is an infinity knot dragonfly and I love it. I like the infinity knot as a symbol of marriage and love dragonflies. I found a necklace of this design on ebay and liked it enough to look at it forever and ever. In purple of course.

I am a bit too OCD to commit to placements willy nilly and chose the symmetry of one on each wrist. This placement hangup is going to become an issue should I ever decide on what I want to get next.

The first tattoo I got was the Kermit and Miss Piggy, I got it when I was 19 but I always knew that's what I would get. I think that love truely is blind, especially between a frog and a pig...hence the blind folds...

The tattoo's on my feet are from a poem my mom used to say to me when I was a kid...There once was a girl with an itty bitty curl right in the middle of her forhead, and when she was good, she was verry verry good, and when she was bad she was horrid...Yep me all the way.

I am a USAF wife of 5 yrs. My husband and I both have tattoos.
I have a total of 5. The red firedancer I got as a tribute to my all time fav. band - Dave Matthews Band.I got this the year I graduated from college (it's on my right shoulder) 2001

The next one I got was the wolf paw - I went with my mom to get a tattoo for her 50th birthday and I have a degree in Wildlife and Fisheries Science (I've always liked wolves) 2002

Then came the anklet of music notes and butterflies (went with my husband - as date night, 3 weeks after we met, to get tattoos..) 2003

After we got married, hubby got orders to Iraq. He was injured 6 months in and got to come home.When he was healed up enough, we went to get matching tattoos. The triskle (black circle tat) completed my music note/butterfly anklet which I thought was extra special b/c that was the date night tattoo. The triskle is a symbol of the 3 stages of woman (child, woman, crone) and hubby got it to remind him of me - since I have the same one and I'm a woman! ;) 2005

The last and final tatoo (as of yet) is the celtic dragonfly that I got for my 30th birthday. I see it as a symbol of change and rebirth, and I see your 30th birthday as a change in life - moving from young woman to adult .. so thought it was fitting.

[The first photo] is a picture of my tattoo. The other picture is of my husband's tattoo. It's actually one that was done in stages. In 2002, just after the initial thrust into Afghanistan in, I drove all night to meet with him at Ft Bragg the weekend before he was supposed to leave. We hadn't gotten married yet, so when he had new orders, I went home to IL and he went to Ft Carson. Anyhow, I was rather scared of getting the tattoo, but I had to have something lasting...just in case, you know. I got the single blue rose and stem that is now the right side of the design.

Years later - after that deployment to Afghanistan, getting married, a deployment to Iraq one in uniform as well as one not, and finally his retirement I went and had the tattoo finished to match DH's.

It's not exactly the same. It's very close signifying our unity, but different enough to signify our individuality. I love it. It was worth the time, money, and the pain.

Mine is the kanji for Love, Ai...the flowers are my wedding date to my soldier, 6 (petals) 11(petals) 5(petals). The ribbons are the wedding colors.

He has Love on his left pec, over his heart, with 6-11-05 under it. And a dragon around a yin-yang- when he was 18, he just picked something random.