Check out the inside of Selena's wrist!Oh, dear. I hope Selena Gomez drew that fanciful, curly "Justin" on her wrist with a black Sharpie, I really do. Because while the jury's still out on whether or not teens should even get tattoos in the first place, I can say with some conviction that teens should never, ever get tattoos of their boyfriend and/or girlfriend's name.
Not that I ever did anything like that. (Okay, I DID.)
Selena apparently showed up onstage Saturday night in Las Vegas sporting the name of boyfriend Justin Bieber on the inside of her right wrist. (With a little heart, awwww.)
Just in case you forgot, Gomez is 19 and Bieber is 17.
I'm not trying to be cynical or anything, really I'm not. Because I'm sure many (choke, cough) teen romances (snort) go on to last for years and years. Of course it happens! Just like people get struck by lightning and win the lottery and, I don't know, sprout wings and learn to fly.
The problem with teens is that they feel everything so strongly, they're absolutely positively certain those feelings will never change. So of course a permanent (thank god for laser removal) gesture like a tattoo of your crush's name seems like a perfectly reasonable thing to do. Why not? Well ...
The tricky part, I think, is finding a way to talk teens out of this kind of thing without making them feel like you're not taking them seriously. The last thing you want to do as a parent is to make your teen feel like you think her love affair is silly and meaningless ... unless you want her to get married at 18 just to prove you wrong.
Maybe the best we can hope for is to convince teens to put off making big showy commitments like Selena's "Justin" tattoo (if it is a tattoo) for as long as possible. With any luck, by the time that appointment to get inked rolls around, she'll be on to somebody new.
Selena, a Justin Bieber t-shirt would have been enough for now!!
Did you ever get a tattoo of the name of someone you were dating?
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its not a big deal, its henna. its cute. stop over reacting with the selena gomez and justin beiber stuff, its ridiculously annoying for everyone.
I think the key here is "celebrity romance", and not necessarily "teen romance". My husband and I started dating when I was 17 and he was 18. We've been together for 8 1/2 years, married for 5, we have 2 wonderful children, and I can't even picture my life without him in it. So, while it may be true that many teen romances do not end with a "happily ever after", some do. However, celebrity romances are, by and large, a joke.
Getting a tattoo of your significant other's name is just asking for something awful to happen to that person or your relationship.
Some teen romances do last. I started dating my husband of almost 6 years when I was 15. We've been together 10 years and have 2 beautiful sons.
don't have any tattoos but i married my high school sweetheart. we've been together 16 years.
That definitely looks like sharpie.
If you're going to do it, go sneaky. My sister got a tattoo with her and her boyfriend's zodiac signs, but his was the same as our mom's. So now she tells people it's a tattoo of her and her mom's zodiac signs. Make it something you can retcon.