Do you keep photos of your ex after a breakup?

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And what about presents, letters, keepsakes etc. Especially if it was a first ever relationship that lasted seven years.

Lliam · Accepted Answer

Yes. I want to remember all my former girlfriends. All but one were wonderful girls.
I lost touch with most, but remained friends with a couple of them. I only have photos photos of a couple of them and have fewer keepsakes.
I'm Facebook friends with my very first girlfriend.
I enjoy seeing what they looked like when they were young. Dang they were pretty!
The most amazing woman I ever knew gave me a kind of expensive Pepe le Pew figurine that I still have on a shelf in my house and treasure. It's a cool figurine, but I also loved that lady with my heart and soul. I still do. We reconnected on Facebook 20 years after we separated and even spoke on the phone a few times. I was so glad to know that she was still in the world and pursuing her dreams. Then, about five years ago, I read that she had passed away from a sudden medical problem. It left a hole in my heart that will never heal.
My wife isn't jealous. She knows that I love her and that my previous relationships were a long time ago.

cmarrott · Accepted Answer

Always and forever. They are my past. I’m glad they were there then and I am a different person because of them. Getting rid of them is the same as removing history. Doesn’t change the fact that it happened.

Anonymous · Accepted Answer

Somewhere that I would never look at it, but I figured years down the road I might actually forget what happened, best not to erase the past but not dwell on it.

Too many things in my past I've thrown out and wished I still had something little, but usually I forget I have that stuff and after awhile I can get rid of it.

sage2021 · Accepted Answer

Yes I do I have all of my photos from babyhood until recent years. I have photos and letters and cards they gave me. I still have the letter my ex-husband sent in the mail in 1974 asking me to marry him. I guess I am very sentimental.

Diodoro · Answer

Solely because I've had new girls stalk my insta and like the one photo of me and my ex from moooonths ago and that effect things moving forward, I have since put all of those albums and photos on private or archive.

To me, those are just memories. To a lot of other girls it's either feeling like I'm not over my ex, or they think I still have a girlfriend and that I'm talking to them when I have a girl already so it causes problems.

Either have a lot photos with you and female friends plus other girls. Or sponge your account in my opinion. Just to avoid issues. I'm not big on taking photos all the time, so it's just easier for me to hide photos than it is to post more

ohshee · Answer

Know when it's done and it's over it's done and it's over I don't need to remember anything by looking at it I'll remember with it being in my head or my heart and that's it if I have anything of hers I give it back if I have a photo then I don't see for a long. Of time I might throw it away or I'll just go back in the picture box or whatever no we are all just Dust in the Wind when something's over it's over it's time to move on new experiences new Journey New Life new happiness if I want to remember everything it'll be in my head and in my heart not something materialistic or anything like that

Anonymous · Answer

Yes but it’s in a hidden folder. Something I do not look into often.

I got one ex who was the “one who got away”many years ago. Complicated but I know for a fact she completely scrubbed any bare mention of me in all her social media profiles (but she still had mentions of other exes).

It took me longer but I did the same. However there is one pic of me holding a trophy with my arm around her after winning a major sporting event (which I trained VERY hard for). She un tagged herself from that. Tbh that really broke my heart. I can see why she did it but just disavowing herself from the entire magical experience really hurt.

Little_Bumblebee · Answer

I keep photos and stuff like that. They were still a part of your life and at that time, moments of happiness.  Some presents I wouldn't keep but it would depend on how the relationship ended.

dc_rogers · Answer

It all depends on how long we were together and the situation around the break up. I have pictures and letters from a girl I dated years ago. But one I dated earlier this year didn't last long and everything was let go, we ended on bad terms due to her actions.

So, it all depends.

Bricealan · Answer

I have kept photos from when I was in my late teens, and probably have pictures of most girls that I had any kind of relationship with. Wish I had a group of pictures of EVERY woman I ever went out with, fucked, or even kissed! That is your life on parade, and how persons would not want a record of that is strange to me.

petitedollbabee · Answer

I keep photos on my phone of happy memories with a few of my exes. It is my past, a part of my life and I shouldn’t have to forget it.

Anonymous · Answer

I delete everything, but I’ve never had a relationship that’s lasted more than two years though. I think I would answer differently if they had lasted as long as seven years.

Anonymous · Answer

I only kept two pictures of my ex-wife on my phone from our wedding. We may hate each other now, but I liked our wedding and that bitch can't take that away from me.

scholastic_vibez · Answer

No. I would not even listen to a video because if I hate them enough, I don’t even want to remember the sound of their voice let alone what they looked like.

kyleelyn199723 · Answer

I have one saved from 5 years ago with one of my exes, but it means nothing. Once I dumped my ex from 3 years ago, I deleted every single piece of evidence that I was with him at one point

Sleepy303 · Answer

I keep a few tbh it's still my memories from the past. Like a photo album from the 90s or something for example

exitseven · Answer

I had a box that had old letters and stuff from old girlfriends. When I got married and moved into our first house I threw the whole thing in the trash.

_Lucian · Answer

I haven't deleted anything from my first and only :( relationship. If I hated her, maybe I would. She is apart of my history though and I don't like to delete my history. She was the one that got away though so we'll see in the future.

t-8900 · Answer

If we broke up it was for a very bad reason on their part and they are dead to me tbh. Most of em now are still reaping from that mistake.

certifiedalphafemale · Answer

I delete it immediately since it’s a waste of space in my phone. But funny thing is, one of my exes still have my photo and they keep asking how I’m doing. They miss me even if it’s been years that have passed since I broke up with them.

Anonymous · Answer

I still keep photos that we took but I just don't look at them anymore. It's part of my history so deleting them won't do anything. I keep everything for the memories (unless they were very bad memories).

whosnumber1 · Answer

not really, if there was some nice gifts or things maybe but I wouldn't keep mementos and little stuff. that being said I do have some nudes of one of my EXs I took of her in a photography class. lol

KostasKouvalis · Answer

I have before. She was crazy, but she was still hot.

Anonymous · Answer

I keep photos of my ex, but on Google photos, not on my camera roll. I keep letters and everything, but I put it away.

JustJamie123 · Answer

I do keep them for some reason but i don't look at them very often and if I lose them somehow I don't ever care or want the pics back or anything but I do keep them for however long

vickyaustin · Answer

Yes I keep what I've taken in the park but not those taken in the shower

PeterSmith1983 · Answer

Don't think anyone will delete all photos unless maybe you really had a big fight breakup

TrillXHippy · Answer

If I had a relationship that even lasted for a whole year I’d keep the pictures. “If”

Steve1071 · Answer

Shit no. It’s called the delete key and the shredder.

Guardian45 · Answer

The only thing I can recall keeping was one photo. ĺ

kingykringy · Answer

I deleted everything of the ones I had feelings for

Zygum · Answer

When break up, Why to keep his pictures and gifts, burn them

Papabubbles · Answer

Only reason I have some pics of my ex is because we have a son together.

spartan55 · Answer

Nudes for sure. Is that considered a keepsake?

abc3643 · Answer

I keep it all. It's all part of my history.

Aurora1010 · Answer

I kept of one in my old phone

DizzyDesii · Answer

In a folder on my old phone

lovedejj_xo · Answer

I delete it all and delete them off social media

bowenw · Answer

I saved our wedding album.

Starwitch23 · Answer

No, that is the first thing to delete.

DiegoO · Answer

I am not gonna lie. I have some😏

noohair · Answer

You can't grow if you live in the past.

snowblack47 · Answer

No, I find it painfull.

roy_ricky09 · Answer

Nah.. Not even during the relationship

dudeinohio · Answer

Nope. I erase all. photos

emperor90 · Answer

No i would bin it or burn it

altdbob · Answer

I dont keep pictures while in a relationship

jjj101010 · Answer

I don’t keep them but I’ve checked them out online

Lyndsielee666 · Answer

No lmfao

drowsydaffodil · Answer

nope

scott04sa22 · Answer

Noooo!

boobliker · Answer

sometimes!

Cutiebhadie · Answer

delete the photos

Fuentes · Answer

No its all gone

andy530 · Answer

I have before

Nahid1707 · Answer

Nope.

In_Trance · Answer

Never

Soo-jin · Answer

Never.

xtera · Answer

Not all but some

Anonymous · Answer

Only her ass.

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