Breakups are never easy, even when they’re necessary. When your ex is so screwed up they decide to take you with them into some rabbit hole to Hell, well that’s a trope we’re all too familiar with. The psycho ex is the thing of high Hollywood drama, after all. That combination of Fatal Attraction and Pacific Heights where it seems that same ex has nothing better to do than try to destroy your life? well that’s the inspiration for this tattoo.

Guard Your Heart is about the evil that our lost loves can render upon us once our apparent usefulness has come to an end. Far too many of us know this feeling. The stalker, the midnight caller, the cyber vigilante dm’ing your every new prospectful lover, someone who refuses to relinquish a codependency they’d grown all too accustomed to.

That’s the road to Hell they say is paved with good intentions. Staying in a relationship for fear of retaliation is a pretty damn good sign to get out of it in the first place, but all too many folks stick around out of a pronounced sense of responsibility for their partner, dysfunctional though the relationship may be.

So, kids, remember to guard your heart. You’ll be happy you did.