She’s Sick Of Her Housemate Occupying The Whole Living Room While Working From Home But Isn’t Sure How To Approach Her Housemate Since They Tend To Get Super Defensive
For the last three years, this woman and her roommate have been living together, and this past June, they moved into a new place.
The house they recently moved into is massive.
Her roommate’s bedroom is the largest bedroom in the house, and because of this, her roommate is paying about $130 more in rent than she does.
The bedroom her roommate chose is twice as big as hers, and their kitchen and living room are both incredibly spacious, too, especially considering that they live in London.
Her roommate chose to work from home, and she works in their living room from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Plus, her roommate works from the couch and watches TV every day.
Luckily, her job allows her the freedom to work outside of the traditional 9-5 hours with corporate standards, so she has a lot of flexibility and free time.
“I’d love to work out at home, watch television, and just get up to more stuff, and the living area feels perfect for that. I mean, it’s the lounge, the social room, right?” she said.
Unfortunately, her roommate seems to have claimed the living room.
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Whenever she has the chance to watch TV, her roommate continues working in the living room while she’s trying to relax.
Her roommate constantly makes her turn the volume down or even pause or turn off the TV completely when she has work meetings.
In addition, her roommate also doesn’t want her playing music or talking too loudly with their other roommate.
“I just feel like I’m living in her workspace. I quite literally curtailed my life so that I’m not doing a 9-5, and she chooses to do a 9-5 and makes everyone else adhere to what she can and can’t work with in the LIVING ROOM,” she explained.
She joked that the kitchen is so huge that four intoxicated people could easily hula hoop without the hula hoops knocking into one another.
They no longer have a dining room table because one of their previous roommates took the one that they used to have.
Their previous roommate also felt that her current roommate was taking over common spaces too.
She pointed out that the kitchen isn’t used too often because they’re only in the kitchen when they make meals or tea.
“She’s a super defensive, anxious person who views every suggestion as an attack,” she shared.
From her perspective, her roommate moving her desk into the kitchen would make a lot more sense because there is plenty of room, and she would have privacy to work in peace without disturbance.
If she does ask her roommate to do this, she predicts that her roommate will cause an awkward living situation with a ton of hostility, which she’ll have to put up with for who knows how long.
What would you do if you were in her shoes?
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