Delete photos after breaking up with someone?

Put them somewhere where you can save them but not see them all the time right after the breakup. When you first breakup the pictures can be painful. But, if you wait a couple of years you can look back at them and remember the good times you had and wonder "what ever became of" without the pain. After all, they were a part of your life and they have an impact on the person you will be in the future.

I also delete photos after breaking up so i can easily move on and i will not see our old memories because if i will see the photos after break up it will hurt me more so i will choose to delete it. When it comes in social networking sites i also delete our photos there so when someone view my profile my friend will know that i already break up with him.

I keep them. They are still memory. Good or bad i keep them.

it didn't happen to me but i'll share my two cents. initially, a heartbroken person will choose to discard everything but i have to say they have to think a lot of times before doing it, or end up regretting the act. who knows if one day they'll be back in their others arms? those photos are witnesses of an undying love.

hmm, well, i suppose it would be proper to delete the pictures. sometimes, although we might say that there are no strings attached just wanted to keep the memories with the pictures,., it would still be an issue to your next partner. so maybe it would be proper to delete the pictures instead

By experience i deleted pictures of my bf on my phone, and hide all the love letter files in my net notebook. The more i am exposed with all of these stuff the more it is difficult for me to move on. So for months i should have never seen any of it, and it work. I have accepted and forgive him. Maybe in sometime i might look at it again and laugh at the fact that once in my life i really love him that much.

I have never felt the need to destroy a photograph of anybody I have known in my life whoever they may be. I feel that they are snapshots of part of my life and whilst at the time a break-up may have been painful, the photos are still part of my journey to where I am right now. I have them and sometimes I look at them and remember, but there are no strong hurt feelings or regrets. As a Zen practitioner, I don't believe in trying to destroy memories, but need to engage with them and move on naturally and not force things. Everybody's different though and I guess they handle things in the way they think is best for them at the time. _Derek

I do delete photos after I break up with someone, not because they cause me pain, but because I don't like the guy anymore and don't want to look at his stupid face. lol. I don't need pictures of people I don't like. I imagine that some photos may commemorate something else, like an important event in our lifetime which a person from a past relationship may be in, so I would probably keep such pictures. However, I don't think that has ever happened to me.

Hi there, I'm guessing it depends on the terms that the relationship ended. If you just ended a really bad relationship, I would think it's ok to delete photos and throw away all the stuff that could remind you of how bad it really was. On the other hand, I don't really think it's necessary or justifiable to delete photos of an ex that didn't put you through a rough time. Some people manage to admit that they grew tired of each other and break up in friendly terms. I believe those are the photos to keep. If you're not sure what to do, simply burn the photos onto a CD, delete them from your laptop or computer and then sleep on it for a few weeks. If after a month you still hate that a-hole, you can destroy the CD. If not, you may well copy them back on your hard-drive.

I wouldn't have gotten rid of them, but unfortunately, one day I was at work my husband thought it was a great thing to do. Now we're divorced! I want my pictures back!!!

You can set them aside in a place wherein you can not see them every time for you to move on. but if you think this could help you much then it is your choice. Time will come that you are ready to see their photos again and as well as meet them in person.

Well for me I don't want to delete them but i rather keep them in place where i could not see them. Time will come you will look back at those photos again and you can't help but smile and sometimes laugh at it.

Well, if someone for example deceived me in the beginning for who she really is and waited until I gave my heart to start showing her personality disorders, insulting and cunning personality, etc (lol) it might be best to just delete everything as I realize I didn't even know that woman. But in general, I think it's best to keep everything just for the good memories and show oneself that we have control of our emotions and can move on as an adult. If someone doesn't have control of themselves enough to resist negative emotions from what they created then they need special help before proceeding into something new and into life in general. IMHO

It depends in the way we broke up. If I was mad and I initiated the break up for a reason where she was the one who did wrong, yes I would definitely delete her pics. But if she initiated the break up without a reason that made sense, I would be hurting and will take some time before I can move on. So maybe I won't delet her pics.

This is one of the reasons why I don't plaster my walls with pictures of my partner. It has been a practice ever since and sometimes my friends would pester me as to why I don't have a picture of us in my wallet or cell phone. My hubby also asked me about this a few months after we were living together. He was wondering why there isn't a single picture frame of us together, or even mine or his picture in the house. I just answered that I don't consider our picture as an object that we could use to design the house. Even here at home, I don't have any of my pictures in the frames in the living room, though I do have family pictures in the coffee table and side tables and such. I just don't like to display my picture. Now, if you have plastered your wall with pictures of you and your ex and you break up, imagine when you wake up you are reminded of that person because you will see the picture, or the empty picture frame. So, I don't really keep pictures of my partner.

It is hard to say. Although you can delete the photos, however, you will never delete the memory. And sometimes after many years, you have found the right one and you will not feel sad any more. You may not feel bad when you remind of the past. On the contrary, you shall be grateful to it since this experience can make you find the right one at last. I love China

Well, I also did this.. yet either deleting or not, still you won't forget the memories and maybe regretted having those photos. ;-D

Agree,that deleting i think is because you don't want to see the picture and also don't want your mind to think about more. But even you deleted them still will remind the person,it is only if you desire to not think and forget about it will help it,

i think most of the people will delete the photo, not even just delete the photo but the stuff that be presented from he or she will also be throw off i think. but is it really a good way just to do like that? for me, i personally feel nothing, even has break off, but the photo and those stuff also can be a part of memory in our life. i dont think that break up for a relationship will hurt us forever. so keep some memory to ourselves is also not bad. the important is not is that the relationship can last long or not? but the process within the relation will be.

I think it would be better to delete all these pictures and memories because if we have really decided to move on in life then what is the need to preserve these memories which could be painful to you. I think it is better to get rid of all these photos so that you can make a fresh and new start to your life and have a new beginning.