Should I tell him?

About 8 months ago, my boyfriend broke up with me because he was graduating college and I still have a year left. Well, turns out, he didn't find a job and move far away right after graduation like he expected, but now he's finally found something that can help him find a better job - he's joining Americorps for a year and moving to a state that's actually not too far of a drive from where we are from (about 7 hours).

We've remained friends since we broke up and stayed in contact...he would even occasionally stop by my house whenever he was in town to see his friends. Now I'm living in Chicago for the summer and he's leaving with Americorps in August so we won't be able to see each other before he leaves, but, especially in the last month, he's been contacting me more often - he actually called me a couple of weeks ago and he made some comments about how he wanted to come see me and how he had researched ways to get here by bus/train and stuff like that. I don't know if he'll actually come but the point is that he actually looked into it.

My question is, I still have feelings for him and since we broke up I've been wanting to tell him how I feel but I haven't...I tend to be one of those people who never takes risks like that, mainly because I'm afraid it will make things awkward and ruin the friendship which I value just as much. But it's been building up and I'm thinking about telling him soon...just calling him and talking to him about it. I don't know if anything will come of it, but I have this nagging feeling that I need to tell him and not just for my own benefit, but also because I feel he needs to hear it. I don't know if that's just me or if that's my gut trying to tell me something...but how should I tell him without making him think I expect something from him? I mean, ya, it would be great if something were to happen, but I don't expect it to and I don't want him to think that's what I'm telling him for. What's the best way to go about just telling him?

Dear wab87,
Well you would be telling him because you expect something to come of it...you need to be honest first with yourself. You want a relationship again with him and you know there will be no way to have just a friendship with him. This is part of growing up...making a decision, knowing the consequences and living with it. So you speak with him and he says, no I'm not into you anymore I just want to be friends. That would be a sentence worse than death and at that point you need to say goodbye and move on. Or he says ya, I feel the same way and we need to become a couple again...Yahoo...OR: well let's just see how it pans out...we will sleep together and we will spend some time together but that's all I can offer (your his bed buddy). So regardless of the out come you need to fess up to him about your feeling and decide how you are going to deal with the out come.
Sue...good luck