Boyfriend won't let me get piercings

My whole life I've always loved piercings, tattoos and dyed hair. My mum started dyeing my hair fun colours when I was 8 and I started stretching my ears when I was 12.

Unfortunately my mental health got very bad and I was pretty much housebound for all of my teenage years so I wasn't able to go get anything done.

Its been 11 years and I've been waiting until I was well enough and can go outside again so that I can go get stuff done.

I started dating my boyfriend 8 years ago and have lived with him for around 5 years now. Throughout our relationship I have mentioned that I really like all this stuff and want to get lots in the future. My boyfriend has always said he's not a fan.

Anyway I'm doing a lot better than I was now so I decided recently to start seriously looking into what I want done and looking around at different tattoo and piercing shops nearby.

I've been mentioning piercings and hairdye around my boyfriend more and I've found he gets quite angry when I mention that I'm going to do this.

Like today I said I'm going to get my ears pierced and he just said "no you're not" and asked why I would want more when I already have my lobes done.

Heres the deal. I have already compromised on not getting any tattoos, just for him.

But I am NOT willing to budge on the piercings or hair dye. My friend has kindly bought me the blue hair dye and bleach so it's 100% happening. Also while out the other day I went in and got my septum pierced.

Its not like I'm going to be covered in the either. I'm wanting a single small stud on both nostrils, septum and then my second ear lobes. That's it.

Now I'm really panicking. My boyfriend is a very angry man, he gets upset very easy. I'm actually scared about dyeing my hair now and him finding out about my nose.

I'm just very upset as whenever I bring up any of this he will just say no. He gives no reason and just says no I'm not.

I want to do what I want with my own body and over the past few days I've been very upset and crying about the fact I feel like I can't.

Im kind of scared that if I tell him about the piercing and actually go through with getting more and dyeing my hair he will break up with me.

I have nowhere to go, I still can't work due to my mental health so I don't know what I would do.

Even if I take out the piercing and don't dye my hair I'm really not happy that he is telling me what I can do to my own body.

Sorry about the long post, I don't really have people I can talk about this with.

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