I used to pride myself on being the girl who didn’t go boy crazy or irrationally emotional or clingy…

I was recently dumped by my high school sweetheart after more than a year of the roller coaster ride of love.  I am not pretending our love was perfect in the movie sense, but when we had problems we fixed them.  I am not particularly romantic but he was it for me. He was someone I could live with, or in some cases work around when it came to his faults.  More importantly, I felt comfortable and right. He was my best friend, lover and supporter. More Here...

Okay, so you can't REALLY get rid of memories of your exes from the past but this is referring to all the gifts, the photos, and other memorabilia. There are some people that tend to keep things from the past for reasons of their own.

Me, I tend to keep old gifts and photos because for me, it's a reminder of how far I've come to learning about the person I truly am. The boys I've been with in the past each have taught me something about myself and allowed me to take something truly valuable from each relationship, no matter how bad it was.

There are other girls/guys who tend to throw anything that reminds them of their exes out. I never really threw anything out besides maybe bad journal entries that portrayed negative memories I wouldn't want to keep coming back to anyway. But the reasons people might throw those keepsakes out is maybe it's their way of moving on. I suppose if you kept that stuff around, it just reminds you of what you miss [or don't miss].

Do you keep stuff from your exes? Why/Why not?

Very recently, at the ripe age of 20, I have *finally* found myself involved in my first relationship. We have been dating for almost 4 months now, and the experience has honestly been the greatest thing to ever happen to me. Here is my advise to the folks who have had a difficult time getting into a relationship: men or women, gay or straight. Take it with a grain of salt, this is the only relationship I've been in, but it has been a very smooth and stable ride the entire time as opposed to my previous failed attempts to ask out girls whom I was attracted to, so I think my advise can help the people who are serious about developing a long term relationship with that special someone. More Here...