What did you do with your pictures after divorce?

Question

What did you do with your wedding pictures, vacation pictures, photo albums and scrapbooks after your divorce? What if you don't have kids?

Answer 1

Even if you didn't have kids, this was a part of your life. By throwing away the pictures, you're throwing away memories of your life, not just your memories of your ex.
So think carefully before you burn something that can't be replaced. You may want to look back on that part of your life someday. We can't erase part of our lives, and hopefully don't have any regrets and don't want to erase any part of our lives.
I packed them away in a box, and there they still are, it's been 6 years. I do have a child, so I will be giving photos to her at some point. The rest, I imagine I'll decide what to do with them when the urge strikes to open that box. No hurry though, in a box they will stay until that day comes. Maybe when I'm 80 I'll want to see some of those pictures, and if I tossed them, I'd be tossing almost 20 years of my life. I suppose it depends on how long you were with that person too.
Now if I you have naked pics and remarried, those would be inappropriate to have around, but the rest shouldn't insult anyone in your future.

Answer 2

I remember at the time of the divorce to just throw them away. I separated them when I first got divorced into a different box and put them in the closet. And then I waited one year to see if I would still feel the same way. This way I didnt just run across them everytime I went through pictures. I still have them. Its been 4 years now, and I just recently went thru the "other box". I was trying to find some pictures from a trip I took long ago. And truely, it wasnt that bad anymore. It was like visiting some old but good memories, as the pictures represented some fun times (vacations..ect). They still stay in a separate box, and they will go back into the back of the closet. But I was glad in the end I still had them.

Answer 3

We have 25 years worth of pictures. I had our wedding pictures and a couple of years worth of pictures put on cd and sent them to my ex, who lives out of state.. I felt it was important to do this so he'd have extra copies to keep for our son. My ex never acknowledged that I had done this. No thanks, nothing. So I stopped doing it. I still have boxes of photos put away. I will continue to have them put on cd for our son, but will not send any more.
I don't know when I'll be able to finish. It was a gut-wrenching process as my ex left me for somebody else. I might never finish.

Answer 4

I wasn't too bothered about it at first. Kept them for the kids.
However, it wasn't a conscious decision and they seem to have vanished over the years.
It depends on whether you regard it as a phase of your life from which you've learnt a bitter lesson or whether or not you are angry. The angrier I got, the less inclined I was to see his smug, stupid face grinning at me.

Answer 5

I gave the wedding album to my ex wife, the only photo's i kept were ones of the children as they were growing up.

Answer 6

the best thing to do is to go over them and pick the ones that have special memories,then get rid of the rest.keep the ones with memories in a box and put it in a safe place either in Ur parents house or sisters house or a friends house.

Answer 7

If you don't have kids... I suppose it doesn't matter what you do with them.
If you do have kids, please keep them.

I never saw my parents wedding pictures (because my dad trashed them) until I was 18 and my mom found a few. I love them, I think she is beautiful in them, and even though I don't care for my father... I keep them.

Answer 8

They got lost before the divorce and I never bothered to look for them.

Answer 9

Just the kids pictures are still alive.

Answer 10

Packed them away and forgot them.

Twenty years later stumbled across them again. My kids were curious and I was able to show them life before they came. It stops hurting to look at them, eventually.