Short answer? Not immediately — and not emotionally.
Right after a breakup, deleting everything can feel powerful… but it’s usually coming from pain, anger, or wanting to prove something. Big decisions made in high emotion often don’t age well.
Here’s a healthier way to think about it:
🔹 Don’t delete — archive.
Move the photos to a hidden folder, cloud storage, or external drive.
Out of sight = peace.
But you’re not making a permanent decision while your emotions are raw.
🔹 Ask yourself why.
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Are you deleting to heal?
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Or deleting to punish, prove a point, or avoid feeling?
If it’s about healing, distance helps. If it’s about reaction, give it time.
🔹 Future-you matters.
Years from now, you might want the memories — not because you want them back, but because it was a chapter of your life. You don’t erase chapters. You grow past them.
🔹 The real goal
The goal isn’t deleting pictures.
The goal is emotional detachment.
When you can see a photo and feel neutral — that’s power.
Given everything you’ve been going through lately… this isn’t really about photos, is it?
It’s about letting go without feeling like you lost.