Tell me what you did with photos of your ex

[Overthinker2016]

I'm struggling with this. Have binned some and kept others (generally those where we seem to be having a nice time, ones at family events or where we are with other friends).

However a bit of me feels unresolved about it. By keeping some I mean. It ended badly and have had NC for about 4 years. Have no desire to ever speak to him again and look back on my time with him with very mixed feelings. We did have some nice times but he hurt me badly. It would be neater in my mind to just chuck all the photos but essentially erasing ten years of my life if I do that.

New bf moving in, so clearing out. No kids so don't need to keep anything for the benefit of children.

What did you do with yours? If you had wedding photos did you keep them?

I gave the majority back to him. I have no interest so I left it up to him to keep what he wants and make the decision to throw.

I've kept a few official photo shoot ones of us with DC boxed away for me to pass on when DC are interested.

My wedding album is hidden away. I can't bare to look at it, it wasn't a brilliantly happy occasion but DC might want to one day.

I gave him back all letters too.

I have all of previous boyfriends photos and correspondence but I have happy memories of good relationships and mutually agreed splits. Plus none of them were lying, cheating, EA c*nts.

Bin!
I had to keep some of my ex as he fathered my eldest and although he's never given 2 shits about her, I thought she'd like to know what he looked like at least.
Now she's 14 and wants to bin them herself!

I've kept some of my wedding photos because I look so young and beautiful in them. It would look weird to cut him out, perhaps even unhinged now it's 15 yrs later. But I don't look at them now and not sure where they are.

Depends on what the ex did for us to split and how hurt I was afterwards. Some I've kept. Some got burned. Others put away in my memory box.

If you don't have kids there's no reason to keep anything.. every time I've split up with someone in the past all pics are deleted and erased from social media - don't need to be seeing that it cringes me out that I was with them in the first place!!

Couldn't agree more! I'm pregnant with exes baby but I haven't kept 1 thing that relates to him.

Don't worry! I won't be giving the baby away!

I would stick them in the loft if you have one. Years later you will intrigued to look a them- they represent your past life experience and years later the pain will die down and you will have a different perspective. It is amazing to see younger versions of yourself! I speak as a 59 year old woman who threw most of her photos away and regretted it. Luckliy for me other people including my ex husband kept pics and Ive been able to see them again because of this.

The only pictures I will keep & wont throw out regardless of who is in them is from April this year, when my son arrives.....

When my grandmother divorced her husband all of the photos she wanted to keep she cut his face out!

I kept my x husbands and mine wedding pics & momentos for 10 years after we had split up, hidden away in a large box. We ended badly but for some reason I kept the stuff in a misguided belief it was my 'past' and had to be kept...feck that...I shredded them when I was moving house this year as I decided I didn't want to bring them with me. I spent all afternoon shredding calmly and I felt incredible afterwards, like a weight had lifted. No children with him.

This was decades ago, one ex-husband and one wanker and I burned them. And was forever grateful to my DM who managed to maneuver the wanker out of the pictures at most of the events we all attended together.

No kids, but if I did have them, I'd probably pack them away to give to them when they're grown.

I think these days if I had one of 'those', I'd probably scan them and see if I could resize or photoshop the person out. If I couldn't I'd probably replace them with the image of some movie star as an inside joke.

I kept them, but packed away. I really don't have anything against them.