housemates whose partners always visits and overextend their welcome
By eabaterina
@eabaterina (501)
Philippines
February 23, 2009 6:54am CST
hi, how will you talk to your housemate when his partner is always in your place, almost everyday as if he lives there (these are gays) and he is not neat, he leaves his food containers by the sink and does not know how to throw it away properly. when he comes and the door is open, he will not even knock. when i come home, i always knock even though i live there to make my presence known but he doesn't. it is unfair to the two of us (there are three of us in the apartment) that we are like four in the house but only three are actually sharing the rent and bills.he bathes in our apartment, he sleeps there almost everyday, like six out of the seven days in a week. please help. we don't want to hurt the feelings of our friend but we can't take it anymore
2 responses
@deejean06 (1952)
• United States
23 Feb 09
I was in a similar situation and unfortunately for me we wound up going our separate ways and not remaining friends. It sounds like one of the housemates is taking advantage of your hospitality. After all your bills are increasing due to the 4th person usage of everything in the house. I would say something. Either you want the person to contribute more to the monthly expenses or the partner has to respect your home. Good luck!
@eabaterina (501)
• Philippines
24 Feb 09
we were already housemates before and a different girl had her bf come over almost daily and we talked to the girl but the guy did not contribute or stop coming over so we moved out and now this friend of ours is repeating the same situation over again. i expected more from him, since we had that situation before and he knew we did not approve, i had hoped he will control the situation now, but no. we already opened it up to him. we're still waiting for his decision. hopefully i can move in to my own house in a few months time so that i won't have this problem anymore.
@deejean06 (1952)
• United States
24 Feb 09
Oh my goodness! I'm so sorry that the situation repeated itself. How awful! These people are not very thoughtful and you're right - the best thing is to have a place of your own. Good luck!
@oyenkai (4394)
• Philippines
24 Feb 09
I think that the best way to do it is to have a private talk with her where all of you can confront her - nicely, of course and not accusing so that she would not become defensive. Then just tell her what you have to. Then start making house rules that all of you will agree on and follow so that this wouldn't happen again.
It's good that you're friends with your housemates. I wasn't as lucky. But I moved and now I have my own room! So things are going pretty well for me :)
Thanks for the response on my discussion!
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