Gifts from your "Ex" Keep? Toss? Memories?

Gifts from your "now" Ex Girl/Boy friend(s).
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Do you keep some of them after the relationship ends? Do you maybe throw them away, burn them for lols or find some other fun way to destroy them? Do they have a significant meaning and because of that, you keep it?
Do you demand gifts you "Gave", back? Do you tell him/her to do what ever they want with the gift(s) you gave them?

Gifts I've given, I could care less about, considering how I was the one dumped, I could care less what becomes of the items in question.
Gifts I've received, while they don't remind me of the past specifically, I still keep some of them. One happens to be an anime plushie so I kept it.


Share some of your experiences/stories with us if you could please ^_^.

I keep it. She gave me when we loved each other so i would say it's a good memory and a good thing to keep it.

My first crush gave me his jacket and a book. If he would've asked I would have gave them back, but after a year from when he stopped talking to me my friend convinced me to burn the jacket. I wasn't about to burn some literature though and it is one of my favorite books. So I kept that, he never returned anything I gave him so - that was that.

Well up until my current relationship, all ive got were just sketchbook and pencils... #2 pencils on top of that.
Never really got a thoughtful gift before except for a blanket I got from one of ky exes that I use on occasion. Its not even that big of a blanket either...

I don't know if they kept their gifts or anything. Ive mostly bought them practical stuff. Like games or clothes a few times.

well ill tell you gifts are to keep unless YOU want to throw them away or whatever you want to do with them cause well they gave them to you and if they give you some good stuff keep that

All my ex's i was still friends with except one whore which i sold her stuff. And posted her nudes online.

I like the way your friend thinks.




Awesome. That is all.
Wish I could have done something like that with the whore that dumped me.

Can't say I've kept any gift. Don't want to have a reminder, typically.

Even if non-nudes, post them on 4chan and sic /b/ on her.

I basically got rid of all the stuff my exes gave me because I had it feeling will make my current gf uncomfortable. If I saw stuff in my gf's house that was given by an ex, I would be slightly insecure and a little uncomfortable. I believe items like that should either be thrown away or given to someone who just see's it as another object.

I've kept a few select things that were valuable - for instance, some dvds and a Sailor Moon clock that I thought was pretty interesting. Anything that was worthless or sentimental in nature, I kept for awhile in a box, but eventually threw away once I felt that I had totally moved on. Notes, pictures, random shit - and yes, there was A LOT of random shit, since he was one of those abusers that sucks up to you with gifts early in the relationship and then uses it against you later to tell you how worthless you are, and how much he does for you, etc. It was a weight off my back to be rid of it all.

However, for those of you who received nude photographs and then posted them online after the relationship was over... I think that's really fucking awful. Even if she turned out to be a whore or you felt spiteful towards her, that shows a huge detriment in character and maturity level. She gave you those in trust, so you should maintain that trust even after the relationship is over by either keeping it to yourself or (ideally) deleting them into the abyss. Giving them to the interwebz where it could haunt her forever is so incredibly vindictive that I really have no words to describe what scum you are for doing so. For shame.

Just curious here, what if and most likely it'd be a girl who does this, but what if she has pictures of her naked or topless already around the internet...say she was a model or an aspiring model? Lets not get into the pros and cons of having a girlfriend like that lol. What if a guy was in a relationship with a woman like that and then once the relationship ends he has some pictures that may or may not be out on the interwebz, but he is aware that there are pictures of her out there.... what do you say to him spreading those around?
I am not trying to find a reason to validate someone for doing it, but I am just curious what you have to say given a situation like that.

Depends on the gift and the significance of it, and the severity of the breakup.

I had them troll her for a week. I had her girlfriend call me with death threats. Dumb bitch thought *69 was totally blocked... your number will show up on the phone bill and log with the phone comany. I guess they hinted she blew her brother. T__T glorious

My exes weren't exactly big on gifts. What they did give me, however, I give a moderate amount of sentimental value. I still have most everything that they gave me.

Usually depends on what it is and how useful it is. If it is something that I actually use/has a useful purpose I suppose I could keep it. Might be painful because of memories though. Although usually I think I would toss it. It would otherwise be a trinket with no real value except holding me down to something that just didn't work out. And I'd need to move on with my life even if I am sad about that one bit.

Though to be honest, I didn't get a gift from my ex I could keep anyway :p. Maybe next time (or rather not, breakups are difficult) I'll be able to answer this with more experience. But I think I'd toss it 80% of the time.

Forgot to reply earlier. Sorry.
Your scenario changes absolutely nothing - if it isn't yours to publish, don't publish it. If you aren't the one being displayed in the picture, it shouldn't be your decision to make. It is true that girls should be really, really selective with who they give nude photographs to, because the person you trust "ultimately" while you're in a relationship (and they love you) might be the first person to dig your grave once things go sour. However, I feel like a true adult doesn't have their moral compass waver by the circumstance. If you really think she won't give a shit, call her up and ask. If you hesitate to do so, you know it is wrong, so don't fucking do it. Common sense.

No rush required for a reply. I wouldn't have thought differently of you had you replied or not. While I do agree with that, I just can't help but think, in the back of mind how hilarious it'd be if under those circumstances I posted pictures I possessed on the web only to get silly replies from random people perhaps even from guys I know(school/work/etc) saying how they've already seen said pictures. Would in fact probably cheer me up if in fact, she had dumped me(hard and in a hurful way) and I realize perhaps what kind of girl she really was. Of course that's all hypothetical, and while I could easily suggest someone to do such a thing... I honestly couldn't do something like that myself. However, since I have no such pictures of my ex, we'll never know if I could really have the common sense not to do so, but I still believe that I could restrain myself from it.
Thanks for the reply.

I shouldn't of posted the pic, but then again she also posted more graphic photos on her own. Problem was it wasn't for rage or pissed off feelings. She spread a rumor i couldn't make her cum. I proved i did at least once and only was accessible to the three people who needed to know that was a lie. Im not proud,but she did something that was cruel and bitchy ness. I had a seizure and pissed my pants because of low sugar. She was embrassed and left me to flop on a sidewalk. I could of died. This photo released was also later.

Im not proud but i had a male induce pride issue. I forgot her long ago and loss any feelings for revenge or spite. I had a lot of nudes of women and men i dated and had relationships with that are long gone and i never had a reason to post, but then again i shoot people nude and clothed for a living. Some of my ex's were my models and were in gallery shows. Like i said im friends still with most of my ex's. She is the lone one that i can't be one with. Sad because i loved her. Maybe that what hurt me soon. I had more hurtful stuff about her to spread or post at one time. Something nice about giving blackmail content and info that i burned long ago. I should of kept the actual negs and prints of the modelling stuff... some of ny best work. Of course i had a model release.