Originally posted by: LS20
We moved to the city together after college
-I did all the apartment hunting (we decided to live here)
-My name is on all the bills (of course we split but i do all the paying/organizing)
-He has never vacuumed the place - i had to urge him to even buy a vacuum cleaner
-I do the grocery shopping every week - 1+ hours each time .. sometimes twice a week
-Ive cook every single meal in the house
-As labor exchange for the cooking, he's supposed to do dishes....
-Hasnt done any dishes/kitchen cleaning since Sunday
-I bought the widescreen Plasma TV foro the living room....
-which, for the last 2 days, he has literally completely occupied by playing video game---started before i get home from work, playing through the time i cook dinner, and still playing by the time i get to bed. no exaggeration
however, what prompted me to post this was that I just realized today is Thursday and "The Office" was on... which I missed due to his continuous video game playing on my plasma
needless to say, we're splitting ways
Originally posted by: dbk
Originally posted by: chambersc
... how was it broken before? Proper english.
He change "wife" to "bitch".
Originally posted by: Aharami
but you will make a princess very happy someday
Originally posted by: scott916
If you don't put your foot down, you have no reason to complain. If my room mate was on my damn tv that I bought when I wanted to watch something and wouldn't get off, I'd unplug his video game and change the channel. You've gotta man up, dude. You're allowing him to walk all over you, if I was a lazy ass chump and you let me be like you're letting him, where's the motivation to change? He's got it good.
Originally posted by: LS20
Originally posted by: scott916
If you don't put your foot down, you have no reason to complain. If my room mate was on my damn tv that I bought when I wanted to watch something and wouldn't get off, I'd unplug his video game and change the channel. You've gotta man up, dude. You're allowing him to walk all over you, if I was a lazy ass chump and you let me be like you're letting him, where's the motivation to change? He's got it good.
like i said, i didnt mind it much; we dont have an active conflict of interest. i have the location, getting credit cashback through paying the bills, eating as exactly as i want to. its a 'marriage of convenience'
i didnt post this as a 'feel bad for me' complaint. just a declaration stemming from my missing my tv show
he may change next week--when we split--once he's eating frozen pizza every night... or not, i really dont care
Originally posted by: Christobevii3
Sounds about like roommate. He hasn't vacuumed his room or washed his sheets in the year and a half we've lived here
With pics of his room:
http://img443.imageshack.us/img443/5527/jim1mg0.jpg
http://img292.imageshack.us/img292/427/jim2wq9.jpg
Hes moving out because he cant afford the rent here. He wanted me to follow. No chanceOriginally posted by: ebaycj
So you are you keeping the apartment, and he is moving out?
Also - Why doesn't he have a tv for videogames in his room?
Also - Not that it's your fault or you should have to do anything, but get a DVR. It really un-slaves your life from TV network primetime schedules.
Originally posted by: Christobevii3
Sounds about like roommate. He hasn't vacuumed his room or washed his sheets in the year and a half we've lived here
With pics of his room:
http://img443.imageshack.us/img443/5527/jim1mg0.jpg
http://img292.imageshack.us/img292/427/jim2wq9.jpg
Originally posted by: LS20
1. we split all food and costsOriginally posted by: HardcoreRobot
why are you buying his food?
why are you cooking his meals?
why are you cleaning up after him?
why is he using your tv if you want to use it yourself?
roommates don't do that for each other on a regular basis
2. i cook = he cleans up (which, of course, doesnt end up happening with equal reciprocity)
3. because we share common spare. his mess lying around = my apartment messy. for truly "common" cleaning chores i start doing something and he gets the hint and follows. for stuff that is purely his, i just collect them and toss them in his room
4. i bought the tv, and he was supposed to get the playstation and HD-converting dvd player. he couldnt come up with the dvd player so that never happened (i just ordered it myself last week).
the tv share is supposed to be fair.. and it pretty much has until last week when he became addicted to grand theft auto
it would very much seem so. yes.Originally posted by: doze
You are his wife
right on. we were friends in college (though never lived together). i did know all along that he was messy, and expected him to be messy -- though i had a chance hope that it was a "college period" thing and he would change acts after once transitioning to professional life.Originally posted by: monk3y
I take it you were friends at some point so try not to let this ruin your friendship (though I fear it will, it did for me).
the reason we decided to room was that we were both moving to this new city at the same time. i personally had very very little time with which to look for housing... this was complete convenience over me chancing with random craigslist roomate.
although what i said was completely true (not exaggerated), it actually isnt terrible. me picking the apartment means i can literally walk to work while he suffers traffic. i enjoy cooking (just not every single day). think of this as the classic roomate scenario where one person is messy, but the other person is very tolerant of, though his girlfriend HATES it (a la Shawn of the Dead?).
anyways, really, what set me over the edge was the fact that I missed "The Office". you dont fck around with my Must See Thursdays on NBC. >:|