Tattoos

I’ve been wanting to get a tattoo for a very long time now. To me, tattoos must have a very significant meaning if I’m going to cause myself pain. My tattoo would involve in some manner my son’s name and his birth date for it’s the happiest date in my life. I would never tattoo the name of a past lover or current for that matter. I do not care if I’m married to the man of my dreams and I had a written guarantee from god that we were going to grow old together. You just never know what could happen in life. I thought about the design of my tattoo and I want to have my sons name and date of birth in roman numerals, but tying into the shape of the wings of an angel. My son’s name is Gabriel. Very biblical name so I want it to look nice. I’m so scared of the pain though. I guess I can just think about the 36 hours I spent in labor, without taking any drugs. Maybe that will get me amped up enough to deal with someone poking at me and making me bleed.
On another note, I don’t know what compels people to tattoo their current partners name on their body. I like to consider myself a very “devoted person to my partner” type of person, but nothing could compel me to write their name on my body. There are other ways of showing your partner that you love them and want you all the time. Like creating something together in which each one of you can keep a piece of it or something. I don’t know, it sounds corny, but the tattoo thing is definitely out of the question for me.