Ex Pictures Ok?

Jane and I have been together for more than 50years. That was before phones with cameras were invented. LOL

 

I have two exs both from the pre-digital days of film cameras and prints.

My first ex died so I have all the photos of our time together including a few of her nude. I don't think my wife sees that as a threat, but she's never wanted to look at them herself.

They are just faded memories of a long gone time. Now I am old, I look at them occasionally and sometimes show them to people who might be interested.

My second ex on the other hand objected to their existence even though they were away in box and I never looked at them in those days. She made a point of getting out the box and inspecting them with disapproval.

Curiously, I have hardly any pictures of her - either we didn't take many or she has them now. That means my years with her feel like a gap in my timeline. We parted on bad terms, but after a couple of decades I remember her more fondly. I haven't seen her since the 1990s, but have been told she looks like a little old lady now. I'd definitely like to have had a photo to remind me of how magnificant she looked naked and in her prime. Is that wierd?

I find photos from my wife's past very strange. It's almost like I think she shouldn't have existed before she met me. When see a picture of her with her ex, I hardly see her as the same person. Her hairstyles and clothes are reminiscent of Princess Diana. I wonder if I could have fallen in love with her then. As she's younger than me, it would have been like cradle snatching. Having said that her ex is the same age as me. Guess she must have always gone for older men.

I've been putting off the chore of rationalising all the old photos and getting rid of the bulk of them. Only a few are worth keeping now.

 

All of my wife's exes were friends with benefits in college, years ago before digital photos. She still has photos of some of them and also has contact with two of them on Facebook and occasional calls. It's fine with me.

 

I have been there
It's ok cherish your exs items.

 

I still have pictures of my ex in photo albums (lol yeah I am that old) nothing wrong with it in my opinion

 

So I have some pictures from various stages of life. A few girls I dated in my teens 20,s my ex-wife of 25 years and our kids.
A 8 year relationship after that - a few that were erotic ( a day at the beach with wet shirt and a boob showing in a couple but very tasteful)

so enter my current partner (7yrs) who has been with 10 times more guys in her life all local to where we currently live. she has deleted every picture ( or so she says) of her past relationships. She has plenty of boxes of pictures and the fact she has been with plenty of “her old friends” and even friends husbands I am sure there are still pics of past hook ups in the boxes. - I have not bothered to look.

She spent a weekend I was out of town searching every thumb- drive and SD card I own and found the dozen, more erotic pics. she demanded I delete all of them and blew a tizzy over the pictures of me and a past partner.

I deleted so many old pics for a woman once with the same hang up in past and regret it to this day.
I agreed to delete the erotic ones that I didn’t actually know were. Sill in the big bag of SD cards but I am not deleting any others. It’s her hang up but my life she wants me to destroy.
Not happening again I am who I am because of those people. Good or bad !

 

You certainly have the right to your own feelings. But she does too. Our "stuff" is ours. I'd try to get comfortable with her living her life.

Like you, she doesn't want to someday realize that she's at the end of someone elses life.

 

My wife still has at least one ex boyfriend as a friend on facebook. It doesn't bother me in the slightest, I would be happy for her to wank or suck him off, just as long as I could watch her do it.