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How Do I Tell My Mom I LIED To Her?
Hi Rene:
I’m coming to you because I need help. I went to a friend’s house and told my mom I was just there for a party. BUT, I wasn’t.. I was there to have my friend do the tattoo he offered to do for me. So he got started with it, but he only got the outline finished. Today, I was thinking that I should finally just tell my mom about it. So I basically gave her a hint. I told her, “Mom, if I were to have an unfinished tattoo & asked you to take me to finish it, would you?” She responded with, “Well, I would be forced to. I would be disappointed, but I’m pretty sure you wouldn’t do a thing like that; no offense but you wouldn’t have the tolerance for the pain of needles, why?” Of course just like any other teen (I’m 15-years-old), I said, “No reason” and just went back into my room.
She’s really laid back, but since she’s a single mother, she has a lot of stress, and I know for a fact out of me, and my little brother, I’m the trouble child. It took me about 3 years to convince her to let me get the piercings I really wanted, but a tattoo, I know is over the line, but eventually she’ll see it (the tattoo is under my belly button) due to the fact I tend to wear shirts that lift up when I stretch or anything, and I’m a very active person, I’m sporty, I go to kick boxing, softball, and track, and I stretch a lot in the house before I go for a jog, but yeah, I really wanna know how to lay down the news for her about the tattoo, because she has been telling me lately that she wants a more honest and open mother-daughter relationship and I want to get it finished as well because it’s not one of those senseless tattoos, it has much meaning behind it, and well I had been dying to get it.
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Needing Help In Hoboken
Hi Needing Help:
Let me see if I have this straight. You lied to your mom about going to a party. A guy gives you a tattoo but only the outline, he may or may not have messed it up (sounds like he may have) and now you want your mother, who you KNEW would not agree to this, to make everything better? I think I can answer this in a few shorts words..
ARE YOU FRIGGIN’ CRAZY?
There are so may things wrong with this situation I’m not sure where to start. Okay, let me try to lay this out in a way you will understand and then explain what you need to do next (and yes, it’s YOU who needs to make amends).
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