Her Roommate Is Unemployed, Doesn’t Pay Rent, And Has Been Eating All Her Food, So She Wants To Start Ordering Only Takeout In Order To “Starve Him Out” And Get Him To Leave Their Place
This 23-year-old woman has been living with her male roommate, who is 24, for three years now. And in the beginning, everything was great.
But then, her roommate began taking drugs, battling mental health issues and wound up hospitalized for his mental health. According to her, he also continued on a downward spiral from there– becoming unemployed.
Since then, living with her roommate has been seriously frustrating her, too. For instance, one thing that seriously ticks her off is how her roommate constantly takes her food.
“I work really hard at my job, and all he does is sit at home, eating all of my food,” she explained.
“And I usually buy some just for him, but he eats mine anyway.”
She’s even tried labeling her items, asking her roommate not to eat them, and calling him out when he’s done it anyway. Regardless, her roommate just keeps doing it, and nothing works.
“It’s almost malicious at this point, eating my food minutes after I told him not to,” she added.
To make matters even worse, her roommate doesn’t clean or help out around their place. He also doesn’t pay rent anymore and just ignores her– both over the phone and in person.
However, since they are both on the lease, she has no choice but to live with him and cover the rent entirely by herself. Or else she will also get evicted.
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She’s tried to reach out to her roommate’s parents for help, too, but they actually refused to bring him back home!
So now, after months of pleading with her roommate for his behavior to change, she’s had enough and wants to take matters into her own hands.
More specifically, she wants to “starve him out” by only ordering takeout for herself. That way, her roommate no longer has food and will be forced to leave.
“I’m also planning on getting legal advice about eviction, seeing if I can get mental health services to intervene,” she said.
But, until then, she feels like she’s out of options and has no idea what else to do to stop her roommate from taking a toll on her own mental health.
“I can’t sleep and am having trouble eating because he is causing me massive anxiety,” she vented.
Still, before she pulls the trigger, she’s not sure if basically trying to starve her roommate out of their place would be the wrong way to handle this situation in the meantime.
Do you think ordering only takeout would make her a jerk? Or is she entitled to not have her food constantly taken? How can she handle the other issues with her roommate? What would you do in this tough situation?
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