Do you keep or delete pictures of your ex? (Page 3)
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Keep them. The important ones at least. Even if they hurt now, and you want to burn them or something out of anger, you always want them later.
I think everyone needs the reminder of the good times, to keep sane and not turn bitter for life.
I usually hide them in a deep place that I don't get to often.. I do that after keeping the pic for the first period of the breakup because if I hide them right after the breakup I know I'll go find them again. So I keep them for a while and then when I find myself slowly moving on I hide the heck out of them. I put them in a USB memory flash. I don't use that thing so I forget them.
What id do is put them on google and never look at them till you're completely over him. I miss all the cute pictures we took im pretty damn over him but a part of me still misses him. I don't know man its your call. But its best not to look at them when you're trying to get over him. Out of sight out of mind
Generally, I keep everything. I rarely receive media that is compromising, but if I did, I would delete it almost immediately. I generally discourage transmitting anything that is compromising even if it is to a trusted individual. Why? Because very few people can be trusted, and we have people in this world we call "hackers", most dangerous of which are black hats.
Keep them. Dont look at them for the moment but in the future im sure they will bring back memories and tbh its your life so its worth keeping it. On the other hand if the guy was a complete asshole all the time/the relationship was bad af you may consider not keeping them
The ones where he took my phone and took a bunch of selfies, I deleted. The other ones, are just buried in my 1000+ photos. It feels petty to take the time to delete them.
Definitely delete. There's a reason you broke up with him. To start afresh, you need to let go completely. Sure it will hurt, give it time, it will fade away and probably you won't even remember this part of your life in a few years.
P. s. Real pain is when you have pictures of your ex on Google drive and it somehow always gives an error when you try deleting them. 😅 #stuck for life
I keep the pictures as a reminder to why we broke up and to show what i looked like when i was younger. The only issue i have about my girlfriends exs is when she tells me that his current girlfriend is an asshole and she can steal him back if she wanted to.
I agree with OP. Its best to keep them. No matter what, the images and videos are a reminder of the times spent. Not all the bs if there was any. And its not a capture of the breakup. The mind can change and add to memories, so the original memory can be lost. Pictures and video helps retain that.
I didn't have that many in the first place, but have deleted all pictures, along with texts and everything else in relation to them really.
When you're at that point where you can delete all the photos and the texts, throw out the gifts and cards and delete their number without it affecting you... That's when you're truly over that person.
But depending on the relationship, that can take a long long time.
If ot Broke your heart in the breakup process instead of you breaking his, you should delete them. Because you wouldn't look up and find other partners for your life. You will remember all the good times you guys had and never go out to find someone else
They were dead weight for me.
I don't believe in the whole "Don't delete pictures of your past. They are memories, good or bad."
because i don't work that way, it just made me hang on to something that wasn't there harder... a true waste of energy.
I delete the pics/number and throw away the gifts. He was a ass about it. I don't need that In my life. 🤷🏻♀️
haha my dating years was when we only had film cameras boys and girls.
but yes have thrown out all of the ex boyfriend photos.
And there were the Polaroids, no developing and printing. So no processors to see your nudes. lol
dude just stop please. 😳❌
I gave a couple , I don't look at them like my x tho after break up more like a friend only the one's I liked as a cool as friend then or now , everybody else deleted.. no pictures with people that has way more bad memories than good , have one pic of a bad relationship I keep it for the memory tho , not her. A good time is a good time.
Typo... have not gave.
I actually have a picture an ex sent me of her wearing my highschool class ring on her finger as a promise ring... that never happened cause she lived in Florida and I'm from Texas, but that memory was to good for me to lose. I don't know what will happen if my wife ever find the picture.
Keep. Even after we break up, we will still be friends and love each other forever. I don't understand how you can decide you love a person and then one day you never want to see them again and the same thing happens over and over how does that make sense?
I keep everything, it's not for leverage, it's for me. I keep memories. Good bad and ugly, I love playing through emotions...
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I deleted the photos of all of my exes save one. I only kept them because he is the only ex with whom I do not have a combative relationship. We broke up because I moved, not because we stopped wanting to be together.