When my six-year-old granddaughter, Natalie, gave me a drawing that said \u201cI LOVE YOU NANA,\u201d I had it tattooed on my arm. She was thrilled that I would keep her artwork \u201cforever forever.\u201d But my husband, Rob, called the tattoo trashy, claimed he was no longer attracted to me, and demanded I remove it.<\/p>\n
Heartbroken by his reaction, I called his brother, Dean. He revealed a painful secret: Natalie had seen Rob kissing his friend Claire, whom she called \u201cthe lady with the butterfly tattoo.\u201d<\/p>\n
Suddenly, Rob\u2019s anger made sense. I believed he feared my tattoo would prompt Natalie to mention Claire\u2019s. When confronted, he repeatedly denied the kiss before finally admitting it, though he insisted nothing else had happened.<\/p>\n
I eventually filed for divorce. His lies and cruelty had broken my trust; my granddaughter\u2019s drawing hadn\u2019t destroyed our marriage.<\/p>\n
Later, Natalie hugged me and whispered, \u201cYou still have your forever forever. Me.\u201d Despite the marriage betrayal, the little tattoo remained a reminder of the love I still had.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
When my six-year-old granddaughter, Natalie, gave me a drawing that said \u201cI LOVE YOU NANA,\u201d I had it tattooed on my arm. She was thrilled that I would keep her artwork \u201cforever forever.\u201d But my husband, Rob, called the tattoo trashy, claimed he was no longer attracted to me, and demanded I remove it. Heartbroken …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24544,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24543"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24545,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24543\/revisions\/24545"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}