>Start of 2018, move in with girlfriend and my friend >girlfriend and I exclusively are buying the essentials for the house (toilet paper, laundry detergent, etc.) >girlfriend and I almost exclusively do all of the dishes and cleaning >roommate has cut the grass a handful of times, even though we have full-time jobs, and he works from home, and he’s purchased a four pack of toilet paper once
my girlfriend has always been super annoyed with it, and always told me to say something to him about it, but I always figured it wasn’t a big deal because the two of us were most likely using more of those things than he was.
Recently however, he’s got himself a girlfriend. She stays over the house for days at a time, probably 3 to 4 days a week. We realize we’ve been going through more laundry detergent, more trash bags, and the water bill has been higher, and still nothing is getting clean while we’re both at work.
Now my girlfriend is very annoyed, constantly bitching at me as to why I don’t say something to him, I told her it’s fine I understand, I’ll just take $20 or so off of our shared bills (Utilities, cable) and it will at least make up for the essentials part.
Yesterday, my roommate came to me and said hey, your $15 short on the cable bill. Since I’ve messed up and made things more awkward now by trying to be passive aggressive about it, how do I bring this up?
Internet. He already had an account and everything from his old place and he “needs” the internet package he has from them.
Mason Edwards
First I don't understand why in hell your gf ever agreed to this arrangement and if I were her I'd find someone else to room with, pack my things and leave you too boys.
Carson Brown
It wasn’t her who agreed, it was me. My friend and I had already arranged to get a place together and then I met her, and she said she wanted to move in with me. I couldn’t just leave my friend hanging at the last minute, so this is how it ended up.
Aaron Jenkins
your gf will find something else to bitch about, she wants her own little lalaland unshared with anyone but you
Jaxon Bennett
So you were your friends bitch already, cooking and cleaning and buying groceries before you even met your gf. All she's done is point this out to you, pussy.
Connor Bennett
Then tell your gf to move out and the problem is solved.
Samuel Allen
After reading all of this, yeah, kick that bitch out.
Cooper Hill
>how do I bring this up? by sitting down with him for a man to man chat about he ought to be paying more and looking after things a bit more too. simple as.
Jeremiah Wood
Does your girlfriend keep her hairy goocher clean? If not the roommate has a point ?
Nathan Ward
Just let your friend take 15 dollars worth of pussy from your gf and call it even.
Michael Turner
Pay your fair share and point out you are not buying groceries and essentials for him and his gf. They need to provide their own.
Jace Gonzalez
You need to have a written agreement as to what everyone is suppose to do. It's called a contract. Have him sign it, you sign it, your gf signs it. If you do not make everything 100% clear to everyone what each individual's responsibilities are, they will take advantage in every way they can. you CAN NOT be passive agresive about this. That is how you ruin relationships with everyone. You three need to write this up, everyone sign and date. Then if someone does not hold up their end, You can go back to the agreement and point out they agreed to XYZ. If they refuse to hold their end, then you have legal standing to kick their ass out.
Dominic Price
Let me get this straight: you deliberately underpaid the bill without saying anything to your parasitic roommate, and now he's autistically pretending you didn't do this deliberately, and you've somehow talked to him about this but not told him you deliberately underpaid and expect him to start chipping in? I think you need to leave your apartment, house, whatever. Break up with your girlfriend, drop the scumlord """friend""". Move back in with your parents. Maybe you can try being an adult again in a decade.
Cameron Russell
I was literally in this same situation OP and it brought me and my gf to the brink of breaking up before I kicked out my friend of 12+ yrs.
Personally depending on how you paid your security deposit. If you paid all of it, pull the rug out from underneath him and force him to find a place. That’s what I did and it was an awesome choice for me personally. I realized someone ready to fuck me over isn’t a friend, so I burned the bridge and ultra fucked him over.
Hope that helps.
Nolan Torres
Yeah I know. But it’s been going on for a year and a half now, and we’ll be out in out own place in 6 months, I figured brining it up now is just more trouble than it’s worth. If it was to be done, it should have been done in the beginning.
My other suggestion was just keep trash bags, toilet paper, and laundry detergent in our room.
Caleb Morris
We split all the bills and thing evenly, so I don’t think I could do that.
Parker Wood
Can you address my comment about your gf's hairy growler please?
Luke Parker
Yeah, she hates hair, I enjoy a little bit.
Jonathan Mitchell
Sorry that's not what I asked. I asked if she keeps it clean.
If she doesn't, it rightly explains why the roommate won't contribute. That's my bloody question.