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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My daughter (25) went and did the one thing I always advised her never to do: get a tattoo. It’s of a hippopotamus and is really ugly. I just can’t understand why someone would get a tattoo of a hippo! I’ll admit it’s well-done but this is just disappointing. I’ve always said, ever since she was a little girl, that tattoos are a bad idea. She said that “she wanted to do it for a long time” and “it has nothing to do with me” but I somehow doubt that. I just am SO disappointed. Ugh. What’s a mom to do?[/quote]

My parents' one and only rule, NO tattoos.  This was a non negotiable.  One of my sisters got a "tramp" stamp while in college and she admittedly was absolutely stoned out of her mind when she got it.  One day she was helping rinse off my parent's patio before a family barbecue bent over and Dad saw it, ugh he was beyond angry.  Having lost family in the Holocaust who obviously had tattooed numbers on them was a sacred thing to him and my mother.  They did nothing then, but she was cut out of the will when my dad died.  [/quote]

He sounds awful.  Bet he was controlling in other ways too.  What a jerk.[/quote]

How is that controlling? He had some rules and she violated them. He didn't stop her from mutilating her body. But there were consequences.[/quote]

I loathe tatoos, but that was punitive and dumb on his part.
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Why? She tried to lie and cover it up. Is inking your skin really that important? She could have just not done it but she did so she should have just owned it in the first place. Maybe if she had talked to him rationally things would have been different.[/quote]

No, the father is a jerk. His adult daughter doesn't need to tell him anything considering how he reacts. She knew he would never react well.[/quote]

Then she can't cry when there are consequences. If she wants a big girl tattoo, knowing her father's preferences, that's how the cookie crumbles. [/quote]

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