Keeping pictures of your ex?

I keep pretty much everything . They were part of my life and I don't see the point in erasing these parts. Not like I check old chats & pictures the whole time, actually I hardly ever do that. But in case I will, I'll be reminded of good times and that everything happened for a good reason, including the breakup. When I read peoples answers here I feel like some just made bad experiences or aren't acting very mature - and that isn't even related to deleting stuff, more like how they treat ex-partners or handle relationships.

For my last ex: I delete the ones where its just him or me and him, when I come across them. If it is a group photo, or a photo of something unrelated and he just happens to be in it I keep it. We broke up on very friendly terms and we talk from time to time, so I dont see anything wrong with not deleting everything.

For previous ones: unless there is something hidden in the depths of my hard drives, I think I got rid of everything a long long long time ago.

I regret nothing thus there is absolutely no guild / bad feelings or the need to delete anything. I am glad that I had these experiences - no matter the outcome. Even the negative experiences are forming what I am right now - especially those ones are the more valuable lessons.

I would formant my brain's C: drive if I could, but yes, I keep photos of someone.

I keep all pictures just because I have a bit of a long term memory issue, so if I wasn't able to go through old pictures sometimes to remember stuff I would forget too much! :( Sorry I guess that's not helpful haha. I haven't kept any physical stuff though.

I keep everything of everything.

Never been in a relationship so no pictures to worry about :(

I keep most/some, because I am too lazy to delete. :P I don't access/browse them, though, unless I need something specific amongst them (like a link recommendation, a pic of myself, etc.). Depends on the relationship, though, for some I would definitely want to 'consciously' keep certain things.

I don't see anything wrong with keeping mementos of your ex and your relationship. But I do have problem with keeping 'lewd' photos and sharing them around (if only just keeping them in view at your place or showing them to your friends -- unless you got a permission of course).

That depends on what you're planning to do with the pics. Personally, I treat them as any other pic of a place I've been to ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

I've kept most things. All my breakups have been amicable.

Disclaimer: I've never had a relationship end in a really bad way.
I think the answer will depend a lot on how the relationship ended. There are things I would delete, like really "private" pictures, and things I would keep, like just general pictures of us together. I would not keep them in the most visible spots, like as a profile picture on facebook, but I would not delete them either. If I had a really bad breakup (something that I've luckily been spared), I might delete everything.

Though I'm generally very good at dodging cameras, so there are not many pictures of me & my former partners :P
Actually, I just looked through my phone, and there's not a single picture of me & my ex, despite using the same memory card as I had in my last phone... We were not good at that sort of stuff!

i delete them, it helped me move on.

This has gotten to be so much easier of a question now that most photos are digital. i was sad when my first wife took our photo albums with her when we divorced.

I usually keep them but mostly because I forget they exist... I rarely go back to checking my phone/camera/pc memory to see which pics I got and to begin deleting them.. Thus, they rest in the forgotten corners of my drive ...

I think I might be old because none of my ex's' photos are digital.

Never really been the picture type, so I've never really had to consider it. Closest I ever came to this was finding a hard drive rescue dump from an ex that was mostly family photos and a couple of her and me, dump found a year after we broke up. Called her and left a message to see if she wanted them back, but after a month with no response I nuked the lot of them. Her loss.

I gotta say the poll choices are very well done :D

the poll result makes me laugh LMAO

keep it, s/he was one of your life ink who painted your way to reach who are you today

such grammar nazi

I've never been in a position to do this (happily married to my first love - we're together 11 years), but I would imagine that nudes should be deleted and anything else... I don't think tearing through your social media deleting everything is too healthy. I don't know if people still print photographs but I don't think they should be thrown away, just not displayed in your house.

It's easy to get rid of stuff like that in the heat of the moment, but there may come a time where you can look back with an older and wiser perspective and appreciate the memories, even if the relationship didn't work out.

It's easier to get a new start when not reminded by a person who left you (or you left) so I'm going with delete (since I don't keep many pictures anyways it's not that complicated anyways for me)

Can't say, never been in a relationship :/

#foreveralone ;_;

If my gorgeous mug is in the photo, I'm more likely to hang onto it. ;)
Narcissism (and joking) aside, I'm not much of a pack-rat, so I get rid of that sort of thing.
I've found it helps me move on and get over it.

Found some last year, 13 years since her, left them on the floor and days later when I cleaned my room, threw them to the trash.