Burning photographs

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Is it just me or does burning photographs seem overly dramatic? All it does is cement the event to your memory. If you really wanted to forget whoever is in the photos, just bin them and let it go. Is this an aspergers trait or am i just a w*ker?

I have photos of my Mum and her first husband (not my father).
She was so angry with him after he left her that she carefully cut him out of the photos.
The family has no images of him at all.

I cut out all the pictures of my ex-husband,I was in a very dark place at that time.I did set fire to a pile of his clothes plus damaged some of his personal effects.I wish I had done none of these things,He had been very abusive to me and I did have some severe anger issues.If I could do it over, I would have divorced him sooner.I have forgave him and visa versa.

I once burned a photo of my aspie mate. I was still mad at him then.

I dont know anybody that burns photographs. tearing them is far easier and alot funner to do
But I've never torn anyones photo.

sounds like a scene from a drama

My Mother and Father split when I was 18 months old and I never saw him again for 27 years.
She kept no photographs so I could see what he looked like, no pictures of us all together that I can look at now and see that I did used to be part of a family.

In my mind now I cannot even imagine that My Father and my Mother were ever actually together allthough of course they must have been.

The lack of photos I would say have been very damaging for my view of how I fit in the world.

I don't think it's overly dramatic if it's a process that helps someone let go and move on from whatever it is they're burning & starting over from. Why bother judging it and thinking anything of it at all? If it's for you, do it. If it's not, don't.

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I have burned photos of painful memories. One I remmeber a guy and I fell in love when I was 15 and he had to leave, he said goodbye and gave me a photo of him. I couldn't forget him and my heart ached so much that I wanted to forget all about him and end the pain. I said I will forget him and I took the photo and burned it. I do regret it now because I don't remember how he looked like anymore.