Keeping pictures of your ex?

I guess it depends.
One of them ended with me deleting everything in a fit of fury - pictures, trashing gifts, even went through 8 months of FB, deleting just... everything associated. I thought the world would end.
Another I'm friends with and talk to once in a while, nothing deleted:)

keep a couple of pics that bring you good memories, print them and delete the rest.

I have a few pictures and chat history because I think that we have to remember good things that happened when we were with somebody and I think it's part of our life... Sometimes I'm thinking about deleting them because if I'm in a bad mood they usually make it even worse. I think it would be better for my mental health just to delete them, but it's hard.

Keepin a picture of your ex in a box is probably less problematic than keeping your ex in a box

Well my ex was my only other boyfriend and I was with him for 4 years. We ended on great terms. I have him on social media and if I pass him in the street I will say hi. However, I deleted all photos, binned personal gifts such as a necklace, physical photos, cards etc and that was that!

In my opinion, keeping things like that mean you still care. I personally just don't feel the need to keep photos, I have memories... Keeping photos of another guy that I was with feels strange. Plus, it feels therapeutic in a weird way, getting rid of the old and starting fresh.

Like imagine you have a new relationship. You are wearing a tshirt from your ex, your necklace from your ex and your boyfriend points out that photo of you two... Seems like a big "I'm not over him" kind of thing. Dunno, when a relationship ends it ends. Photos and all.

I had a very special picture of my girlfriend but after we broke our relationships, I deleted it. It was long time ago but I still regret I've done this. She meant a lot to me. Even if she's not close, I want to remember she was in my life.

I'm obviously keeping the nudes. She's welcome to keep mine!

Usually I delete all the pictures after the relationship is over. It's always easier to get over someone that way.

The only time I kept some pictures, they were nudes, was because after the break up she started making up all kinds of stuff about me and spread it around and started making problems for me and I used them to get her to back off and leave me alone.

real pictures : no, if i want to see her face id just look for her facebook etc.
lewd pic : yes i always keep something in casemy ex gone crazy, trying to blackmail me or shit, im a prudent person.
chat : i never bothered clearing them manually, but since i generally remember pretty well my discussion with people whom i care, i don't have any need to keep it (when i grew older maybe ?)
memento : im not into memento, the only thing i keep are gift because it would just be a shame to throw out something usefull.

As for my opinion : it totally depend of the relationship, if you stay friend with your ex, then not much a problem to keep some stuff, but would be better to delete stuff like old photo where you are "in couple" relationship and not just friend.
if you totally break up, then just delete everything. Not only it help moving forward, but it avoid unecessary pain for your future companion, maybe some fight, and unecessary question too. If you really loved your ex, you probably don't need any of those to keep your memories of her.

This pic pretty much sums up my experience :3

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i keep pretty much all pictures. never had nude pictures of exes but probably wouldn't keep those. i've been married over 10 years and before i got with my wife i did some cool stuff with exes. i'm glad i still have pictures of stuff like having fun at an event with an ex -- why pretend it didn't happen at all just because if i went today i would go with someone else?

Memories are the foundation of who we are. Unfortunately sometimes memories fade, so it helps to have a reminder of the good things. (Just make sure to keep them locked away from prying eyes;)

I have pictures, some of which include exes, in boxes with other old photos and memorabilia I never look at. I guess I was raised such - to keep history. I am just more focused on the present so the gather dust. I was once asked why I felt the need to keep old pictures of others now that I was with someone new but I had no answer other than that I couldn't see any reason to get rid of them. Keeping old memories does not lessen any current commitments I make.

There have never been any nude photos. Who does that, excepting in TV sitcoms?

we are all lonely D:
We should make a thread for lonely people to meet eachother.

Aww did you break up or something? I guess it depends. Probably any indecent photos should be deleted.

"I don't have a girl/boyfriend and never had one."
That's the leading answer. You fuckers are breaking my heart.

I wouldn't know. I don't know any other computer sharks. I am in this white void of non-existence.

Creepy

Well, only have one true gf (for almost 13 years), the other special stuff that i had from a previous relationship were burned (i tried to meet her to give them back, but she ignored me, sooooo)

I keep normal pictures but it may be because Ive never been in relationship that ended in some horrible way. With all my exes we endes up being either closer or further friends (heck, to one i was invited to wedding, we're still very close friends, we simply just didn't fit together as a couple). Perhaps if one of my relationships ended with us hating each other Id consider deleting all memories. I do delete controversial stuff thou - nudes, sexy poses, kissing, sexting etc.

Also worth mentioning that for past 7 years Ive been in the same relationship so all this stuff is from my younger and more irresponsible years when I was not treating relationships as serious as now, thus not sure how I would react nowadays.

I tried burning some mementos from an ex a few years ago.

I ended up having the worst depression attack in my life and had to spend a whole month in a mental hospital to recover.

I'm never gonna do this again.