You are cleaning out your closet and find a small gift from your one true love ( who you have not talked to in years) Do you keep it or throw it away out of respect for your so?

Keep it of course.

Why isn't my SO my true love?

I'd keep it. Should I throw out all the gifts after I break up with someone?

Considering that it would be from 4th grade, yeah I would keep it. Huh. I I wonder if I have any notes from that.

Depends on the gift...

More than likely I'd throw it away, out of respect for my SO, especially if it made him uncomfortable.

Depends. Do I like it? Is it useful? I would treat it no differently than any other object lying around the house. I might give it away. I think it is plain silly for a current s/o to feel disrespected by an inanimate object.

It depends if it was really cool. If it was something silly and useless, I would probably toss it. If it was something valuble, I might sell it. Not out of respect for my so, but because I shouldn't need it to make me warm and fuzzy. If I saw it and it did make me warm and fuzzy, I would keep it. My warm and fuzzy feeling from a happy memory has nothing to do with other happy memories.

What in the world? your "one" true love? You should be with that person in the first place and if you are not shame on you. What kind of silly question is that. Throw it out. The one you are with is the true love. They are putting up with you are they not? They are taking care of you. They are loving you. Come on. lets face it. If it was really the "one" true love they would still be with you. Get rid of it. It is just a fantasy.

depends on if it was something i still needed or wanted. i don't think something i received years ago before i was with my SO is disrespectful to her.

Hard to imagine, but I'd probably tell my SO about it and we'd open it together and laugh. ... the trouble is that bit about the gift being from my "one true love" just isn't true for me.

I guess I should explain a little.The true love I was refering too was my soul mate.My god I loved him so much. This was 20 yrs ago. We were together for 5 yrs when we decided to try some cocaine together, it was ok but he loved it and soon became addicted. It changed him. I had a child to raise (not his) and had to make the difficult decision to end the relationship. I was so depressed, it took me a very long time to enjoy life again.
The "gift" I found was a carved wooden pig that he gave me (I love pigs) and a half of a dollar bill. (he kept the other half so we woul;d always be connected) I found out recently that he had died which, even though I have not talked to him in twenty years, made me very sad. Finding the pig and the dollar about knocked me over with emotion. I put the box back into my closet.

I have kept a bunch of things from past significant others. It's nice to have the memories, but it doesn't make me want to be back with any of those people at all.

I don't believe in "one true loves" (especially not ones that you don't speak to for years).

Keep it and hide it and stroke it when no one is home to see me cry

> Keep it and hide it and stroke it when no one is home to see me cry

OMG!! Thats exactely what I do!

I'll always love him...but never see him again.......BUT No one can take my private thoughts of him

This is a difficult question to answer. I have trouble imagining having a significant other when my "one true love" is someone else. It would have been easier to answer if you had asked about my previous SO without the OTL characterization.

Kind of depends what it is. Not worth anything out with the trash it goes. If it was something that had some monetary value then I would sell it.

Keep it definitely.

Treasured gifts from people you have known and loved. They make you the person you are today, and hopefully you S.O. would realised that.
Perhaps even share the affection.

I assume that, by "true love", you mean "one you still love". Yes, I would. Besides, it was a gift. It would be rude to throw it away.