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Shawn and Larissa
LO #1 - Took 2 years and 2 IVFs ~ DX - severe MFI mild PCOS homozygous MTHFR (a1298c)
LO #2 - TTC 7 months, surprise spontaneous BFP!
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do your parents have photos of your exes?
I have my parent's photo albums here because I'm scanning photos for a project for my sister's wedding. They have a lot of photos of one of my exes and one of my sister's exes and not just ones where they happen to be in the background. Happy couple shots. My mom had marked some of the photos she liked for the wedding thing and a couple she marked actually had the ex in them. They were bigger group shots, but still. Seems weird to me.
~Working Mom~Breastfeeding Mom~Cloth Diapering Mom~BLW Mom~
Blog - No Longer on the DL ~ The Man Cave
Shawn and Larissa
LO #1 - Took 2 years and 2 IVFs ~ DX - severe MFI mild PCOS homozygous MTHFR (a1298c)
LO #2 - TTC 7 months, surprise spontaneous BFP!
Re: do your parents have photos of your exes?
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Sure!
She's not gonna throw away my prom picture just because my looser ex is in it, KWIM?
As teens the only time they'll let you take their pictures any more is when they're getting all dolled up for dances, etc.
My mom actually has a HUGE portrait my brother was dumb enough to take a JC Penny with his then college girl friend. It looks like an engagement picture. It's enormous and.... (wait for it)..... FRAMED. It's not hanging up but it's still in his old room at her house. She says she just can't throw away such a nice framed portrait even if it is of him with someone other than his wife and the mother of her grandkids.
Total score: 6 pregnancies, 5 losses, 2 amazing blessings that I'm thankful for every single day.
If I was his wife, I'd probably give MIL a beautiful photo of our family, or even just the kids to fill that nice frame, and let the old photo be covered up or live in a closet somewhere.
My HS BF was adored by my family, and came along when we stayed in Granby for a family reunion. Mom also invited him to be in some of the group photos, which even at 16, I thought was odd. Just a few months ago I realized he was in the group photo hanging at my grandma's house.
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My parents do but only exes they liked. lol. I'm still friends with some of them (who have gone on to get married or do other things in life). It doesn't bother me at all. In fact, I'm pretty sure they have a framed picture of me and an ex at their house still. I'm great friends with him and his long time gf so it isn't that weird.
They would never display photos with exes I wasn't still extremely close with at a public event though. That's just common sense.
I don't think they really do, and if there are any, they are at significant events like my college graduation, etc.
I actually have quite a few in small albums I put together for the years through college. If I took every picture of my X (or my brother's x-wife) out of there, it wouldn't tell the full story of my life and the album would be pretty empty.
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This is a funny question...LOL. Yes, I know they do in big family pictures and I know we have some of my sisters also. However, I don't think they have very many of just me and and ex - maybe a few from graduation or a birthday or something.
Do you mind including the big family shots? I don't think I would, but I didn't ever have a really bad break-up?
Are you united with the CCOKCs?
My parent's don't really have any of my exes, but I have a BUNCH of my sister's X-BF with her, and several of one of my brother's X-GFs.
Sister & X had a painful breakup, but they're good photos of my sister, and some are from significant family events (like my wedding, my brother's wedding, grandma's 80th birthday, etc). The way I see it, her X was a part of her life for 5 years, so of course he shows up in some photos. If she wanted me to throw them out I guess I would (except for big group shots), but I don't really see that it is very important.
I've never really been the type to throw out all the old photos of an X, but I've never had a really bad breakup either.
I don't mind that they have some pictures, especially the big family shots, prom pictures etc. I don't think they have any place at a wedding. I also think it's weird that they have lots and lots of them that are kind of insignificant in terms of the day, KWIM? Like pictures of us on a random Tuesday posing for the camera and pictures of just ex's family, none of us even in it.
~Working Mom~Breastfeeding Mom~Cloth Diapering Mom~BLW Mom~
Blog - No Longer on the DL ~ The Man Cave
Shawn and Larissa
LO #1 - Took 2 years and 2 IVFs ~ DX - severe MFI mild PCOS homozygous MTHFR (a1298c)
LO #2 - TTC 7 months, surprise spontaneous BFP!