Partners strop because you have photos of your ex? Really?
There’s a difference, I think, between having photos in a box in a cupboard, and having them on the mantelpiece. Building a shrine in the basement is probably a bad idea too.
I’ve got a shedload of pictures of old friends, which invariably will have the odd ex here and there. I don’t see any point in going through and systematically removing any photos of anyone I happened to play Hide The Sausage with twenty years ago; at the time they may have been lovely or evil by degrees, but time moves on and by now they just don’t feature on my radar any more.
That said, I’ve not got eight years of “me and the wife” pictures taking up acres of room, I’m talking fairly small scale. If I had a wardrobe’s worth, I’d probably take ‘getting rid’ a bit more seriously.