I agree and see the point of your divesting yourself of photos of the ex. I have merely a handful of photos of the ex -- ones that slipped through her blockade somehow. Those I have sealed up in a box of other items of the past and put away in storage. My instinct is to jettison them with the sad memories they symbolize, but I have stayed my hand. The only reason to keep them is for my S's, as some day they might have want of them. One never knows.
But, as I said, there are some other photos, like those of my dog, that I'd also like to have -- preferably without images of the ex in them too.
I have mentioned Angus often to my S's -- since he was the sire of Duncan, the dog they did grow up with -- and want to have something as a keepsake for this lineage of family pets, now gone. For me as much as for them.
But I'm not holding my breath about ex. Some day she might soften up, but that's certainly not an occurrence I can pin any hopes upon. Now that the move is over and the packing/unpacking about wrapped up, I can let the thought of these photos go and put it out of my mind. For now anyways.
Then again, were I to receive such photos now, I would be faced with culling the ones with xW out of them. I wouldn't take scissors to them (for my S's sakes), but I'd be tempted. More likely I would possibly attempt a little Photoshop magic on them.
