stephadoomable | FRESH INK

Well it has been a long time but I finally find myself once more in a tattoo studio awaiting some fresh ink. I am very excited. The last time I got a tattoo was when Keenan and I got our matching lock and key. We had been watching Ink Master together and saw a challenge involving couples and complimentary tattoos and then we really wanted to get one ourselves. I think we were about 2 months into our relationship when we came up with the idea. We were just short of five months in I think when we actually got them. A lock over my heart and a key over his. Like crazy kids but we were 26 and 28. We knew though. And that sureness is what I took away from Keenan when I looked for love from someone else. After we decided we were going to stay together, work things out, he said he just needed to be sure that he was really the one that I wanted to be with for life, and I needed to show him that. Well, this is what I came up with. A tattoo. Jack and Sally, us, in a coffin with our wedding date, signifying that this marriage is for life, and that I choose him. My artist I picked was booked 5 months out but the day has finally arrived! My appointment is in 10 minutes, so by the time anyone reads this I'll already be under the needle. Or done. I am nervous. I always hate the pain of tattoos. But I am excited. I am about to have a permanent reminder in my skin of my devotion to the choice I made and need to continue to make every day. Hopefully this will be sufficient proof for him, and an everlasting reminder for me. I can't ever let him slip back onto the back burner. And it's fitting that the next tattoo I get should also be for him. After all we've been through together and everything I've put him through, he's still here. That should be proof enough for me too.