My boyfriend is planning to get a full body tattoo, not right now, but it’s something he plans to do in the future. I’m not against tattoos itself, but the full body tattoo is going to bother me. Maybe it’s because I like seeing more skin than ink or perhaps I never thought my ideal partner would be heavily tattooed/modified. We’ve been together for over 4 years and I don’t plan in ending our relationship over something like that. He knows it would bother me and I can’t blame him either because it’s his body to alter. I respect his wants and I hope to get used to the tattoos when he gets them, but I am worried that I won’t. If it’s wrong for me to not be attracted to him anymore because of it. What can I do to prepare for the sudden change one day? How do I accept the sudden physical change of a partner? If someone has some similar experiences (on change with physical appearance, not explicitly tattoos), some insight might help.
We recently got into a ldr so I can’t spend time with him as much until he decides to get inked sooner or later.
TLDR: My bf wants to have a full body tattoo, but it bothers me. Asking for advice on how to accept it.
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Have you considered asking to doodle on him? It will at least give you some idea of what it might look like.
A full body tattoo isn’t an overnight change. It takes months and is expensive. So much so that BF may never get around to doing it. It’s not worth worrying about something that may never happen. If it does it will be in slow motion.