Hello friend,
Firstly I wanted to say how sorry I am to hear that you are experiencing problems with your marriage, and that I do genuinely hope that it will not be felt necessary to end your relationship with your husband at any time. I see it as being anything but a lost cause, so please do not accept that the end of your marriage is inevitable or destined to happen, regardless of what you might do to improve things between you.
Secondly I wanted to warn you that in my own personal experience third party dream interpretations often tend to be far less reliable in their accuracy, when compared to the usual arrangement where it is the person requesting the interpretation's dream and not someone else's, as in the case with your mother's dream.
But they do say that there is often a strong psychic connection between a loving, caring mother and her sons or daughters, and recognising how concerned your mother must be about whether your marriage will survive these troubled times, her dreams probably have much the same meaning as if they had been your own.
According to the various online dream dictionaries and books, the meaning of a lotus in a dream could potentially be anything from a sign of future love and happiness for the person in the dream (and not the dreamer), a symbol of meditation, inner peace and creativity, or if you follow a more Buddhist tradition the doorway to our ultimate spiritual enlightenment and self realisation.
The fact that the lotus containing your husband's facial features in your mother's dream is coloured like a tattoo or is presumably a dark colour could either mean that this is to be seen as a negative rather than as a positive sign of whatever the lotus means as an symbol to the dreamer's unconscious mind, or alternately it might simply be to over emphasise or drive the point home more that it is trying to make.
In my mind I would interpret your mother's dream to most likely mean in this instance, although I could be way off the mark about this, that the future for your relationship with him is looking a little shaky at present (nothing new about that).
But if he is only able and willing to recognise that he is equally responsible for the problems you are having and can find within himself the same degree of love and sense of commitment to you and to his marriage that he felt when you said your marital vows, then there is still every reason to be hopeful that given adequate time and a lot of compassion for each other as well as yourselves that you will get through this and both be much stronger and wiser people as a result of having undergone what was obviously a terribly upsetting experience at the time it was happening.
And it will certainly do no harm to the future happiness and success of your marriage in the process, as an added bonus.
I wish you both all the love and happiness in the world, and sincerely hope that you will have much better news for me soon about your relationship with each other.
Love, Light and Healing,
eye_of_tiger
