Photographs. Keep or throw?

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What do the rest of you do with old photos of ex and kids and photos of you together? To keep it short ex h left me for ow about 18 months ago after 24 years of what I thought was a very happy marriage. At the time I was devastated but time has a habit of being a great healer. I now find myself divorced and starting over. The house is going on the market shortly and I have spent the last few months sorting out hoards of crap collected over 20 years in this house and I have found it very cathartic and cleansing but I am stuck about what to do with old photos, wedding photos, photos of us with the kids etc.... We always took loads of photos and our walls were plastered in them. All the ones of him came down the day after he left me but I still have them all..... What do I do with them? Many are photos of the children that I would cherish if only he wasn't in them! But it doesn't feel right chucking them , should I erase forever the children's record of their childhood?

What have others done? I am genuinely interested as I am sat here surrounded by frames wondering what to do with them?

I've started to throw out & delete pictures of ex before we had DC (10 years) but I will keep the once since they have been born - because I took them to remember the children & not him

I put all the pictures of DS's dad and the things he bought for me in a box in the cupboard with DS's baby things. I have given them to DS for when he is bigger and will want to fill in the gaps about his dad who has chosen not to be a part of his life.

I did it because I have nothing about my own dad. It's all a blank except a name.

I kept all of mine,I had two DS with my first husband and I didn't feel like I had a right to get rid of the photographs that showed different stages of they're life's just because my ex husband was in them,he's still my oldest 2's Dad.
I've kept the wedding album as well in case the boys want to look through it at any time and my ex husband was an abusive bastard to me and I left him.

The wedding album is in the attic all the pictures with my oldest sons and they're Dad and me are in albums in the living room and they can see them whenever they want to.I'm married and my DH knows about them and he's looked through them with all of our 5DC,he's never had a problem with it.

How about keep the ones with the kids, and bin the ones with only you two. The kids maybe interested in photos of their dad when they are adults.

Personally, I wouldn't throw them out.
Regardless of what has happened between you two now, your wedding album still contains photos of your loved ones and memories of a day spent with them (and if you want to, black his face out and stick David Beckham's over it ) And the photos of the children with their dad? He is still their dad. Why not ask the children if they would like to hang onto the photos of them with their dad?

I have a few but not many pictures of my childrens Dad, due to a couple of overdoses he looks incredibly ill now and many people look at me like im nuts to have had 2 children with him, but he wasn't always like that...as the kids have got older (10 and 11 so not really old) they have asked questions and its been really nice showing them how their Dad used to be.
Mind are in an album the kids can reach if they want, I however don't. I have no need to see it but on the bookcase closed it doesn't bother me

It's still raw.

I have kept all of mine. DS might want them, and they are part of my history.