i'm packing up my room a bit, on account of going overseas for 2 years

i've got a box full of his letters, gifts, drawings, souvenirs etc. it's like being stabbed in the stomach to look at it.

do i throw it away?? (i don't want to it was special) but i feel like if i keep it i'm not letting go

i mean he's got a new girlfriend now and i guess i'm happy for him. but i have all this stuff i don't hate him, we had an amicable break up


should i just shove in a box in the top of my wardrobe and leave the country?

what do you do with all this stuff?

I think this is one of the hardest things to deal with. You want to keep the things as it is nice to have something to look back at. If you get rid of them, when all the hurt has gone, you will rue the day you got rid of them. At the same time, to have things hanging around everday, or a designated box that taunts you from the top of a wardrobe... it can eat away at you.

If you're going away for two years maybe store the box with shared memories somewhere and take one or two special things, a photo or some trinket or whatever with you.

I've still got photos of my ex on my wall, but I find letting go impossible.

I've still got a box of stuff from my old boyfriend who i broke up with in September, I didn't look in it at all until recently, but to be honest, when the break up was stil hurting me I had no desire at all to look at this stuff. I definately think you should keep it, because if you throw it away you'll probably regret it in the future, but if you think you will be too tempted to look at the stuff again any time soon the best thing you can do is leave it behind, I agree with Ava_adore, perhaps take one or two bits with you, but not the entire thing. & hopefully in two years time when you come back to it you can look at it all again & not be hurt by it all.

I would put everything into a box and leave it behind. I wouldn't take anything overseas because I'd want to have the time of my life, and would probably find it impossible if I was constantly reminded of my ex. When you go back, you can decide what to do with the box. I've always thrown away memories of my exes after a while, but they weren't important relationships in the slightest, so it all depends on who you are and who he is for you.

i'm not taking any of it with me, no ways.


he deleted the blogs on his myspace that were about missing me. lol


i dunno, i just want to be friends and he's trying to pretend it never happened


i guess i'll put it in a box with all my other **** and leave it in the wardrobe