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On Deleting Photos Of My Ex
Shortly after my ex blindsided me with a horrific breakup, I went on a photo cleansing spree and decisively deleted all photos with him or us in it. I wanted to erase all memories of him and looking at those photos, even having them on my photo, anywhere where they may accidentally pop up, felt far too painful. So I used the Google search function and located every photo with his face in it and swiftly pressed delete.
I was so angry with him and I felt too hurt by his harsh rejection of our relationship that I couldn’t bear the thought of having any remnants of him in my life.
I left the photos to sit in my trash folder, but then I regretted my decision one morning while less angry and more nostalgic and I quickly recovered all photos of him.
I hid his face on Google Photos and turned off the memories function to ensure I was not confronted with any photos of him.
For a while, I thought that would be ok, but then occasionally while searching for other photos, I stumbled across his face and the wound reopened. I angrily began deleting all photos of his face once more.
Slowly deleting memories of him from my life, photo by photo.
