Have you been divorced? Do you have a child who is divorced? Were your parents divorced? Do you have a relative who has been divorced??
\nOkay…..do you have family photographs with the ex-spouse? The question of the day is, do you leave them in the picture or have them air-brushed out? Or perhaps you feel more strongly and have CUT them out of the picture!
\nSomewhere I have photographs of my first wedding. I suppose I even have some pictures with my former husband and some of my family members. They are not in an album, so I’ve just tucked them away. It never occured to me to have him air brushed out of those pictures. After all, he’s part of my history. I don’t dwell on him, but I don’t deny his existance, either.<\/p>\n
\nIt seems some families are so happy to be rid of that spouse they DO air brush them out. I was listening to a discussion of this on the radio, and one woman called in to say that her mother had very carefully decapitated her son’s ex-wife in every picture!
\nA man called in who will be getting married for the second time. He was visiting his grandmother and discovered that there were pictures of him and his ex-wife on the wall next to the stairs. He folded some of the pictures back to hide his ex, and took some of the pictures off the wall. He was afraid his new wife might not understand. Unfortunately, he did this without discussing it with his grandmother. He felt she would never know what he had done, and that she would understand his reasoning.
\nHave you kept wedding albums from previous marriages? Do you keep them as a part of the history of your life? Or, do feel they no longer deserve a place in your family? My family is not terribly picture oriented, so perhaps this was an easier decision for us than it is for some of you.
\nA woman called in to tell of a nice compromise. When her husband’s children had grown, they gave his son the album from his father’s wedding, since the pictures were of his parents. What will you do with yours?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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