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Ok so things ended with my ex about a year ago now, it ended really badly and the relationship itself... well he was a jerk, put me down and made me think little of myself treated me really poorly etc (I didn't put two and two together and figure this all out until afterwards) I've since started dating someone new and have been with him for a few months and he's great, respectful etc. Pretty much I couldn't be happier, except for one thing. My stupid jerk ex keeps showing up in my dream, I've been over him for a long time however I still have very negative feelings toward him which I've been working on forgetting because I want to focus on happiness... In the dreams it's not like wanting to be with him or wanting to cause harm to him, it's more like I'm still with him but I somehow know that I'm not really and can remember that I'm actually with my current boyfriend, there's no physical contact of any kind in the dreams, it's just like I'm in the same room with him in the same way I had been many times during that relationship, and in one or two we conversed however I can't remember what about but I know it wasn't about much of anything, and in the most recent one he and his roommates (who I also very much dislike) all three gave me birthday presents (my birthday was about 2 weeks ago) no one said anything, and in the one from my ex there was money (I'm assuming the money he owes me), I still knew that I wasn't really still with him but I was in the dream... Do any of you have any ideas on what it means?

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.