Keeping pictures of your ex?

gotta catch em all

No one ever deletes everything completely, especially women.

They always keep all the pictures either on phone, laptop, icloud or some online storage software.

Where's the giveaway? ఠ_ఠ

I burn them during the night together with voodoo doll made from my ex's hair while of course praising satan.

I save pictures of you.

When I get out of a relationship with someone I get rid of everything , EVERYTHING , delete the pictures, delete our shared save games, delete him on Sims XD, delete and block him from my phone , unfriend him and his friends , all that crap :P , with my ex I kept a few gifts he gave me but now that I have a new boyfriend I am getting rid of the stuff, even cut up the poster my ex gave me while my bf was here last time to show him that my ex don't matter :P

I got to keep all the memories! :)

I've got some photos and stuff left from previous girls, but it doesn't matter to me in a way that I would feel the need to get rid of them or hold that sort of strong sentiment for them (But just to be clear: I wouldn't decorate my bedroom with them either ;D, not only out of respect for my current girlfriend, but simply because they don't have that kinda particular meaning to me anymore).
They're nothing but a remembrance of what made me the person I am today and which people accompanied me throughout my life and the events that shaped me... in good times and in bad times. Of course, everybody has their own opinion on such things and different outcomes and how to deal with them, but I'd consider myself lucky as I couldn't hold a grudge against any of them since they first gave me no reason and second I'd imagine doing so would just poison me anyway.
I'm glad I met all of them, but in the end life chose our paths to be different, simple as that, and therefore why don't keep them as the memories they are?

I know i have pictures of my EX in phone, its over year, never looked on them agin. I simply cant do this, it was "good" breakup like we know we cant be together coz some things... now i have new grill, shes redhead, cant complain.

Maybe i look in some year for small tears :)

I have some hidden on some old external HDs.
It would be wiser to delete them as exs are exs for a reason and bringing back old memories does no good at all.

I delete everything.

I find that it makes it harder to move on, if I have old pictures hanging around.

As for nude pictures, I usually only received those when I was apart from them for several weeks (i.e. during winter/summer break, when I was in college). So, I usually deleted those as soon as I was with them again.

Those of you keeping nude pictures of your ex for blackmail, is just fucked.

About the question of right and wrong: I don't think there's a general answer to that. It depends what you make of them. If photos are a way for you to go on ruminating about that person - be it how much you want them back or be it how horrible they were to you - then they do you harm, hinder you to move on, and you should destroy them. If you use them for remembering the good things that might have made you a better person, then I don't see any harm in keeping them.

Having said that which corresponds to what I know as a psychologist - I am horrible at this stuff. Since last night I am pondering about deleting an old friend from my facebook friendlist who not even has been my boyfriend but only almost has become my boyfriend a year and a half ago, or writing him an angry message or just moving on. I was there for him when he was left in a horrible way by his long-term girlfriend who took their son with her ... And it wasn't little I did for him then in the middle of my exams ... including calling in emergency for him once and spending half nights talking him out of killing either himself or his ex. It wasn't even that bad that we didn't come together in the end, I thought we could remain friends. Last night I met him in the theater. He was with his new girlfriend and didn't have the grace to respond to my greeting ... You see, I'm the ruminating type, and I do not even need photos for that!

If keeping them is affecting you negatively, be rid of them. Otherwise I don't really think it matters.

keep them..when your 90 you can look back at them and remember when you had a life.

"lewd" :D
I keep all but can usually look at them only months later

Yeah, I got my last ex' pictures. Nudes, too. No real reason. I just have them.

I usually delete pictures, I don't care much about it, but I keep stuff like some kind of gifts. Especially if they're some kind of a DIY gift, like a custom t-shirt, a mixtape or cd. They are far from where my eyes can see, probably rotting in the basement or in a junk drawer, but I don't have the balls to get rid of it.

Dunno why but pictures can make me feel bad depending on how the relationship was overall, while something physical always brings me a better vibe.

I take it you're single? ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

Stupid question if your ADIDAS broke u keep ?? NOOO ,Insta TRASH

Why do you need to take pictures when you're having sex though. It's like, filming with your phone during a concert ._.

No. But they keep... And never forget my swag... Even calls me sometimes... You know i got the POWER!

I don't keep them but maybe Satan does.

I was lucky/unlucky (depends on the way you look at it) to only ever have 1 girl. In a few months she will be my wife.

And to be frank, I am not sure what I would do about the pictures, if I had more relationships :-S

Delete, done.

It depends on how the relation ended I suppose. My exes left me with mostly good memories overall so I feel no need to remove any of their pictures or mementos. There's only one friendship in my life that ended sourly and I have no need for any pictures or mementos of her, so I did delete/throw away those.