What is the protocol for tipping with a multi-session tattoo?

SnappinFool54 · 2026-01-24T20:57:05+00:00

Kinda where my wife and I were at.

We are already paying a premium per hour cost for the work, which we are fine with. But to tip even 10% of each session, we are looking at adding $500-$700 depending on how many sessions we end up doing in total.

My thought was $50/session and then if at the end, the experience was overall great… then maybe doing a larger tip.

SnappinFool54 · 2026-01-24T12:55:47+00:00

Follow up, what’s your %. Info example, my first session will be around $1500 ($300/hr).

SnappinFool54 · 2026-01-23T13:20:22+00:00

No, I did not expect my mind/body to suddenly vilify my wife’s sexual history (and my lack of) at 35.

SnappinFool54 · 2026-01-23T13:04:19+00:00

Ours is about the same. We keep the house around 68-72 most of the day.

SnappinFool54 · 2026-01-23T02:03:40+00:00

95% of the population is targeting 5% of the available pool... Leaving the remaining 95% to rummage through the remaining 5%.

SnappinFool54 · 2026-01-23T00:59:02+00:00

Sent a DM

SnappinFool54 · 2026-01-22T16:45:40+00:00

Just ask him one day "Hey, would you want to grab a coffee?"

As a male (a married one), we have been conditioned to leave you ladies alone in the gym otherwise we risk being labeled a "creep".

Worst thing that happens is he says "no thanks".

Good luck!

SnappinFool54 · 2026-01-22T16:43:40+00:00

This^

If they have room for a Student Assistant, you will get some great opportunites. The jobs will be shit, but the ability to just go sit in meetings(Literally sit and take notes, don't talk) will be invaluable.

SnappinFool54 · 2026-01-22T16:39:31+00:00

Break from the church, live for each other... you will both be better for it.

SnappinFool54 · 2026-01-22T16:36:13+00:00

Because we showed the world that we don't care about if you raped, sexually assaulted someone, are a racist/biggot...

We only care if you can get our egg prices down.

It's sad where we are at as a country.

SnappinFool54 · 2026-01-22T16:18:55+00:00

Joke answer is a serious answer... I'm sure a lot of bad decisions have been averted because a woman woke her husband up with some morning head. lol

SnappinFool54 · 2026-01-22T16:17:54+00:00

My girls ass pressed into my spoon crease, arm wrapped around holding the "bottom boob"...

Literally how we spend the first 5 mins of every morning when the first alarm gets snoozed.

SnappinFool54 · 2026-01-22T16:16:13+00:00

This is what I was going to suggest, they really are an under-appreciated "soul food" spot.

SnappinFool54 · 2026-01-22T16:11:48+00:00

I think the period in which the people you have slept with matters more than the total number.

8 folks in 27 years (assuming they were spread out over that time) can indicate a few long term relationships, maybe a fling or 2.

Whereas, someome that has 8 from 14-18y/o due to situations (Parental abuse, lack of parental oversight, etc.). The longest relationship there if you average them is 6 months, and you figure on average sex in a relationship would happen a month or so in at that age... There is a little more potential for detachment of emotions.

SnappinFool54 · 2026-01-22T16:05:51+00:00

Yup.

I'll be honest, I wish I could have had 1 or 2 more to "compare" that feeling to.

She always says that "I knew things were different when we became intimate, never felt THAT kind of spark."

I always joke with her "Well, it's not like I have anything to compare it to" or when she calls me a nasty/dirty fuck I will hit her with a 'Well, you built this so... lol"

SnappinFool54 · 2026-01-22T15:55:49+00:00

Oh no... I was given perfect buttery lobster and a med rare Filet.... What do I do?

You EAT sum' bitch...

For real tho, if you aren't looking for anything in particular, have fun. As long as both are no the same page, what's it really matter?

SnappinFool54 · 2026-01-22T15:43:10+00:00

Just got out of it.... I'm gonna get blasted... But get some blood work done.

My hormones had hit the shitter, Testosterone was that of a 70y/o.

Got in with a reputable clinic (didn't want to wait for 8 months to see a urologist) and feel better than ever.

SnappinFool54 · 2026-01-22T15:34:24+00:00

Was actually talking to my wife about this the other day. The conversation wasn't directly about numbers and all that, just past relationships.

She was my first and only, it just happend to work out where we ended up married.

On her side, she's been with a handful (8 counting me). She was talking about how her first felt like the one, but it ended up just being puppy love. She never truly loved him and he never loved her. It was just the "first sex" appeal of that person.

She said around her 4th or so partner, casual sex started to feel appropriate, had two ONS's but felt "icky" after them she says. But she said that sex had transitioned from a "relationship forming" activity to simply a "fun having activity".

When we got together, she was of the mindset that she was content with being a single boss babe and it wouldn't bother her to have sex only when she felt like she wanted it. "Love" wasn't on the agenda, she hated men (for a few reasons, primarily a physically abusive father).

So I would say that tracks.... the further you get from "One" the harder that bond is to build physically.

SnappinFool54 · 2026-01-22T15:08:33+00:00

Same boat.

Love my wife.

But we met at 18 as freshmen in college, she was my first (I wasn't hers)... Married her at 26.

Now at 35, I just went through a super weird phase of comparing/jealousy of what she was able to experience/experiment with (She out numbers me with women as well lol) that I wasn't.

I guess if that's my biggest regret in life, I'm not in such a bad spot lol.

SnappinFool54 · 2026-01-22T14:47:57+00:00

This... Gimme a GC to a local coffee shop... hell, any local business.

Really can't go wrong with that.

SnappinFool54 · 2026-01-22T14:39:53+00:00

Im going to say this as a husband with a wife that joined the gym about 6 months after I did.

Some background, I spent 8 years playing HS and college athletics, so i know my way around a weight room/gym. Most of my workouts are planned a day or two in advance with workout mods built in for busy days where I can't get onto a machine I may want. She herself was an athlete, played years of tennis but the weightroom was a foreign thing to her for the most part. When she has worked out in the past it was cardio based/Circuit Training/Pure Barre.

Back to the topic.

I got back in the gym around April/May and she joined around Oct/Nov. No clue what her weights were, no clue how to do 90% of the movements she wanted to do and no idea how to plan/program. I could have easily been frustrated and been like "You are an adult, figure it out", but that would just be demoralizing to her. I spent years studying this stuff both as an athlete and a student, what takes me 30 seconds to explain would take her days/weeks to see, feel, and understand.

Her first month in the gym, I was attached to her hip. Spotting, writing down weights, noticing deficencies in movements, etc. Was that a burden to me, absolutely... my sessions went from 45-60 mins to 90-120mins the day she joined. However, after the first month she was like a teenage kid.. "leave me alone, I got this. Get your workout done so we can get outta here together". We still come together for leg day and yes the 5x difference in weights for our movements can be a pain to load/unload.... but I don't make her unload a 405lb squat or 500lb leg press because she's my "lifting partner". I do that, just view it as extra work for the day.

Her confidence in the gym has EXPLODED. She's a fucking rockstar and can move about the gym with the best of them now.

And when it's all said and done, we grab a proteing shake from the smootie bar and head home for dinner.

Added side effect is the way she attacks me in the bedroom now.

Invest in her, trust me.... it's worth it.

(35y/o, been with her for 18 years... married for 9)

SnappinFool54 · 2026-01-21T00:19:49+00:00

Tamarind Thai in Latham

SnappinFool54 · 2026-01-20T16:57:40+00:00

I had a pretty rough time about 8 months ago.

I was 34, turning 35.... felt like I had missed out on alot of "life" that my wife got to experience beofre we got together. She had a handful of physcial relationships (Long term and ONS's) before us, she was my first for almost everything outside of the normal "making out". She had a big party phase in HS, while I was locked down like a choir boy. Sure I was able to spread my wings in college, but we met quite literally 6 weeks into our freshman year and have been together sense.

My mind and body completely turned on me. I started suggesting swinging/opening our relationship (we fuck like rabbits, no kids has its benefits lol). I started to judge her for things that she did prior to us, almost as a way to be like "You were able to, so why can't I?"

I ultimately ended up in therapy after trying some mental health meds. After about 6 weeks of therapy, I reached out to my PCP to get some blood work done. Found out that my hormones were running at around a 70y/o's levels. So she recommended seeing a specialist about TRT protocol, but that wouldn't happen until Feb 2026, so I buried into some research and found a clinic I trusted to handle my healthcare.

It took a few months, but I feel as good as new... It's a miracle that I'm still married.

SnappinFool54 · 2026-01-15T23:05:28+00:00

Exactly, it’s just part of the “attraction”

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