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I haven't been excited for my birthday since I was about 17. I'm turning 22 in less than a week.

I've grown to hate my birthdays... and I feel I'm being selfish for my reasons.

-My 16th birthday onwards has only been men - my brothers, my dad and my grandpa, and boyfriend if I had one at the time.

-Every year, my family didn't know what to get me. So they would get me things like, an ice cream machine, bread machine, tyre inflator, and spoons (For Christmas too)

-Nobody but me can bake. If I wanted a cake I had to make it myself. Spoils the surprise if you bake, decorate and bring to the table your own cake.

-This year, my brother has discovered he's gluten free. My other brothers don't live here. And my dad and Grandpa are diabetic. So there's no point making myself a cake that only I can eat.

-Even today, my whole family have asked when I want as a present. All I said was 'please don't get me anything large to store' (my bedroom literally has room for a small dresser, chest of draws, a bed, and 1 chair. I don't even have room for a wardrobe. My room is about 6-7 strides long and 3 across.)

-Two of my four brothers ignore my birthday entirely. I'm lucky to get a text a week afterwards. Whereas I am the sort to remember everyone's birthday and always make an effort

Do I have a right to resent my birthday? I'm more excited for my partners birthday the day before, every year I feel miserable about my own. I feel bad because my family do make an effort but I wish sometimes they wouldn't. But if they didn't I'd feel awful too.

Boyfriend and I are going long distance for the school year. He's going to school 6 hours away from my school.

We've been together for 3 years, however, so the distance isn't an issue that I'm overly concerned about.

School starts next Monday for both of us. His birthday is September 6.

As traveling to be with him is not possible at that point, I was thinking of mailing him a present.

I can't really afford much, though (thus why traveling to visit him is kind of off the table), so I was thinking of borrowing the idea that's been around on Ifunny/9GAG/Pintrest and send him a jar with paper slips in it.

The original idea is to fill it with reasons why you love the other person, but I thought I'd fill it with little "snapshots" from our relationship over the years. Little one-liners from our inside jokes, meaningful moments that happened to us, special dates, etc. And of course, there'll be a bunch of "Happy birthday!"'s and birthday/college related things in there too.

He's kind of a hopeless romantic so I know it'll appeal to his soft side, but I'm wondering if it's too mushy of an idea.

I'm not really romantic and I only pull the sappy stuff like once a year.

Should I keep thinking? Or would that be okay?

There would be 70 slips of paper in the jar.