What to do about photo albums

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I have a backlog of photo books to get completed and ordered spanning the last 5 years....I've been divorced coming up for a year. Would you remove any photos of him/us from the book? (I do them by year) or would you leave them in since I can't re write history and the children might wonder one day why he wasn't in any photo books from 2020 when they would know we were still married then and might want to see photos of us together?

I don't do photo albums the "old" way like printing them out individually - I take hundreds and hundreds of photos per year - which could mean I could easily remove them of I changed my mind in years to come. So I do photobooks via a website and they come printed out

He left because he didn't want family life by the way so I find it a bit nauseating to then see photos of us being a happy family when I know now it was total bollocks

Since the children will be inheriting the books at some point, and might wish to show their spouse or children in the future, I would leave him in.

Don't remove him.
My husband had a couple photos of his ex and kids when they were small in his office at home. The fact he was divorced snd married to me didn't change the past, and those were happy memories for him.

I’d leave him in. My aunt scribbled or cut out her ex husband in every picture she had; the whole family then lost touch with him altogether. It was always really sad to see that he’d been removed from every picture because he was still the cousins dad, after all and that was all they had of him with them as young children. That will mean something to them if not to you. Like you say, we can’t rewrite history.

They have were happy memories at the time they were taken ..... it's just they feel tainted now....he left because of the children ....not because marriage got old and boring or because he had an affair or fell out of love ....so photos of us as a "family" feel weird