‘Don’t Be Petty’ : Man Tells Angry Wife After He Got Impulsive Tattoo of Best Friends Zodiac With Lyrics to a Love Song

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    Font - Posted by u/maybewhenimolder1 5 hours ago AITA for getting an impulsive against my wife's wishes?
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    Font - Title should read *impulsive tattoo. Apologies. As silly as it sounds, I (28m) went through a pretty traumatic experience when my best friend moved away two months ago. He and I had been friends since our early teen years and now we're both in our late twenties. It very much felt like a security blanket getting ripped away from me and caused me to confront some intense feelings. He and I are still close friends, but with differing time zones, the stress of moving and getting settled in, a
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    Font - communication has been limited compared to what it was. My wife helped me through the transition as best as she could, but her patience with the process ran thin rather quickly. This came to a head this weekend. During a weekend trip with some different local friends, I got a somewhat impulsive tattoo. It was a design I had been considering for a while, but I got it done it spur of the moment yesterday. I felt like it was a necessary part of my grieving process of what I thought my
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    Font - life was going to look like moving forward. When I came home with it tonight, my wife was incredibly angry. The tattoo has a clear connection to my friend, and my wife said it was ridiculous I was taking things so hard. I told her it didn't feel good, having her invalidate my feelings and that art on my body was my business alone. I don't have any tattoos dedicated to her, so - in a moment of anger - accused her of being petty over that fact. She scoffed, left our home, and we haven't spo
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    Font - ProgressOverChange 5 hr. ago Pretty sure you're wife (and many of us) thinks you're secretly in love with your friend. Reply Share 5.4k ●●●
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    Font - Powerful-Metal1313 5 hr. ago Asshole Enthusiast [9] Maybe when you're older you'll make a move on your friend? (I'm not judging, just being direct and tactless because the internet) Reply Share 2.0k
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    Font - pawsplay36 · 2 nr. ago Partassipant [3] My working theory is that his wife was well aware he was outright in love with his friend, but that was on the shelf, and she (and probably friend) assumed OP would move on at some point after the move, but that is clearly not what is happening. 472 Reply Share
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    Font - integrativekoala 37 min. ago Yeah OP your wife is upset because you are clearly in love with someone else. She has every right to be. It's time to get real fast and not waste any more of her time. And be respectful of her, no more of of this picking fights with her for something that is 100% on you. Vote Reply Share
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    Font - PuffinTown 4 hr. ago . It's sketchy that OP is responding to comments, but not addressing this point Reply Share 222 holyfudge-4 hr. ago Because he's in love with him.
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    Font - Cold Timely 2 hr. ago I totally agree with you. This is different though. OP hasn't got a matching tattoo with his buddy, he's got his friend's zodiac symbol with the lyrics to a love song. Reply Share 266 ●●●
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    Font - undertherosetrellis 5 hr. ago · edited 5 hr. ago Asshole Enthusiast [7] Update: YTA for picking an unequivocally romantic song that indicates your friend might be the one that got away and not, you know, your actual wife.
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    Font - GabbyIsBaking. 4 hr. ago her patience with the process ran thin rather quickly. My patience ran thin before the end of the first paragraph. OP is either in love or needs some serious therapy for his codependency issues. 4215 Reply Share
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    Font - JetItTogether 5 hr. ago . Professor Emeritass [71] Double comments cause forbidden reference (sorry mods). Yupppp that's what I got... Big in love with my friend vibes... 65 Reply Share ●●●
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    Font - toyheartattack 3 hr. ago Asshole Enthusiast [6] Holy shit, my eyes glazed over "moved" after reading "traumatic event" and I assumed OP's friend had died. 60 Reply Share

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