No, not even with my Dad. He just voiced his concerns and said he had to think on in. It wasn't like he flew off the handle. My parents are not like that.
Well, sounds like irrespective of this matter you have really great parents in any case.
Yes, I did answer his concerns but not quickly. I wanted to thoughtfully give time to my answers. I was a pretty mature kid and I also thank my parents for that. My Dad knew this in me and he listened to my answers and we went back and forth a bit but he decided I was mature enough and it was going to be no harm. He also knew in 2 years time I was going to do this on my own anyway. I was also paying for it myself with babysitting money I had saved up overtime so that helped my argument.
Oh so you were already deeply determined to have it put in once you would turn 18? He must have gotten the impression anyway from your argument and answers that you were irrevocably dedicated to receiving it.
I don't know if I was deeply determined. Things could have changed over a 2 year period of time.
Well, okay. I guess I was referring to what you said here: "He also knew in 2 years time I was going to do this on my own anyway."
At the time when I was 16 that was the plan for sure. If it would have went down that I would have had to wait things could have changed as well.
Oh I see; that explains it more. I guess that by now that you will also have explained it to your bf and that he, as well as your dad did, respects your decision to have it?
Once I get older and possibly out of college and down the road to marriage I will probably take it out. It was more of a teen thing for me and even now I don't even think much of it or pay much attention to it. I don't wear those cropped shirts and the only time anyone other than myself can see it is if I am in a bikini and at the beach or the pool.
Yes, although not absolutely obligatory, it's really part of the dress code to have it in, if the swimsuit is a bikini rather than a one piece outfit. The moment you eventually remove it, of course, you'll remember - won't you? - that experiences differ widely as to whether the hole closes up soon thereafter or whether in fact it proves easy to put it back in. So as a woman without regrets for having it, you'll just eventually have to make the call yourself as to when or whether you start to run the risk of not being able to put the barbell back in if you eventually take it out.
It will be my decision. I suppose if I become a Pastors Wife in the future that will weigh on my decision to taking it out. Even though I would never tell a young women who wants a belly button ring that they shouldn't get one to experience it there comes a time where you move on from things. Like you said it will be my decision to when this happens.
Yes, good idea; I think @ChristineAdler 's daughter's experience and your experience have been highly similar, haven't they?
...and they in turn, when the moment of truth came, simply recognized that you were well capable of instructing the parlor for the hollow needle and barbell.
Humility also.
