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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, how will you feel if the response to you cutting off financial support over the tattoo is to cut you off entirely? Or turn into twice-a-year phone calls? You cutting off needed financial support with no notice because of a choice he made about his own body that affects no one but him is going to hurt your relationship with him. Will you feel like the tattoo was worthy of the estrangement? [/quote]

+1. If you go the nuclear route, please be prepared for the most extreme possible consequences. You want to make your funding of his education conditional on what he does with/to his own body... that's your right because it's your money and you can set any conditions you wish. However, it's also his right to decide how to use his time and he may well decide not to use any time or energy maintaining a relationship with someone so controlling. It's not a respectful dynamic, really. That sort of smothering parental control is why I left home the day after my 18th birthday and had barely any contact with my parents for six years. [/quote]

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