When have you got rid of tangible items from last relationships?

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1. Whenever it’s seemed right to me to do so and I ran across the item.

2. Very rarely. Only if the object is legitimately useless to me. I’m a sentimental person.

3. I really regret that I immediately got rid of some stuff that an ex gave me! He got me a really nice jacket and some other things. The jacket was really nice but I gave it away! I wish I kept it and just placed it out of sight temporarily. I ended up buying 2 other ones of the same brand at a later time for myself. 🙂

   But in the past, I got rid of stuff right away. It did help me move on faster. But I think it’s better to temporarily place it out of sight and then decide later where to keep it or not. If I could go back to the past, I would tell my past self to wait before deciding to get rid of something. 🙂

4. Immediate. Gave them all back as I did not want a reminder of that person around me.

5. well I have two from 4 years ago and have at least 14 years left to keep them

6. Quickly after the break up to make myself understand that it was really finished and not keep myself hoping. It might have been a little too fast but it also really helped me realize.
   I just kept a photo album bc I like the idea of having paper memories of my life stories for when I’m 70 y old and want to talk about my youth to my grandchildren. Almost 5 years later, I’m in a new relationship and I’m glad I kept this album even if I never opened it, it’s just somewhere in a closet waiting for my grandchildren 😅😅

7. I’ve only gotten rid of things that I only kept for sentimental value when I was dating them. So clothing or jewelry that wasn’t really my style got given away once we broke up

8. This was with the first person I fell head over heels to (read: I wanted to marry him back then). We met on the 15th, and I manage to get rid of everything four months after the breakup on the 15th too. I purposely chose to do it on the 15th and wore the ugliest outfit doing so, so I could burn everything and not be reminded of him. 😅 But I did keep my first emails with him (printed), which I only checked once or twice in the span of two years plus post-breakup. Other than that, I don’t have anything that I save physically. I don’t have any bad feelings for him, in fact, I’m very glad I met him, but I just couldn’t see myself keeping anything that reminded me of him … I just feel like it’s holding me back.

9. Left virtually everything behind