My ex is 27, and he still has intimate pictures of us on his phone. His current girlfriend asked me whether I thought that was normal.
Honestly, I don’t know.
It’s an awkward question to get from the person dating someone you used to date. The pictures are from our relationship, but the question is arriving in the middle of theirs. Somehow, I’m being asked to make sense of something he’s kept.
I don’t have an explanation for why they’re still there. I can’t tell her what keeping them means to him, and I don’t want to pretend I can. Knowing him as an ex doesn’t give me access to whatever reasoning he has now.
Still, these are pictures of me, too. That makes it hard to treat her question like a casual request for an opinion.
She asked if it was normal. I’m left with the same question she brought me.
