Kourtney Kardashian’s new boyfriend Travis Barker has her name tattooed on his chest, but critics say the couple is moving too fast. Are they right?
Kardashian, 41, posted an Instagram photo of Barker’s chest on Friday, where drummer Blink-182 inked her name amid his many designs. According to a fan theory, this was Barker’s second tribute to his girlfriend – in March, the 45-year-old rocker showed off a design that read ‘You’re so cool!’ speculating to look like Kardashian’s handwriting.
This is the third time Barker has expressed his love with ink. He had earlier gotten tattoos from the names of his ex-wives Melissa Kennedy and former beauty queen Shanna Moakler, the mother of his daughter Alabama (15) and son Landon (17). “The Shanna tattoo is still there,” Barker told VICE in 2015. . “I do not know if I will cover it, but I thought about it.”
Most of Kardashian’s commentators admired the design, but some could not hold back. “Well, it’s increased fast,” one wrote, while others added, “Too soon” and “You’ll regret it.” Someone wrote: “… you are just [cursed] yourselves, “referring to a superstition that mentions tattoos before they break up.
Barker can speak for himself, but the regret of tattooing is real – according to a Harris Poll of more than 2,000 adults, 23 percent of people wanted them not to become inked due to youthful impulsivity, lifestyle changes and the separation with a romantic partner. whose name they branded on their bodies. And in 2019, Paul M. Friedman, a spokesman for the American Society for Dermatologic Surgery, told the Associated Press that millennials have increasingly opted for the removal of tattoo procedures. A firefighter from Texas has the name of his ex-wife tattooed on his neck. “I was young and stupid and thought it was a good way to show love, which is not,” he said.
According to Bethany Marshall, a psychotherapist in Los Angeles, there are risks in making such a permanent gesture during courtship. “Becoming a couple is a developmental phase of a healthy relationship,” she tells Yahoo Life. “And a name tattoo excludes the ambiguity and mystery of a newly developing band.” Marshall says couples with ink dreams should feel comfortable with the pace of the relationship. “It can be difficult to call it later.”
Tattooing a partner’s name can be a sign that a couple is in love – according to Helen Fisher, a well-known anthropologist at Rutgers University, there are three stages of mating and reproduction: lust (when partners do not have their hands can not hold each other) attraction (experience “intrusive thoughts” about the other person and a strong desire to see it) and attachment (in which partners feel calm and comforted by each other). During these stages, testosterone, oxytocin and dopamine, which are associated with impulsivity, influence decisions.
Marshall says before ruling on couples like Kardashian and Barker, he should consider any personal reasons behind the ink. “As a therapist, I would ask the importance of tattoos – is it part of a cultural ritual or just a relationship memory?”
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