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Questions tagged [roommates]

For questions pertaining to people who share accommodation, whether a room or a house, but without necessarily being in "a relationship."

For questions pertaining to people who share accommodation, whether a room or a house, but without necessarily being in "a relationship." This can be in a friendship group or as a less personal economic-based cohabitation.

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How to approach a roommate who is regularly voluntarily throwing up?

I am currently spending an exchange semester in another country. I have moved into an apartment with several roommates due to a relatively high cost of living. I always had my 16 m² apartment for myself so I am new to living together with other…
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How to let a roomate know that their speakerphone is loud and I can hear it?

I have a roommate who is on his phone a lot (he works from home over the phone). His phone is always on speakerphone at quite a loud volume. When his door will be closed and my door is closed and I'm also around a corner in my room, I can still hear…
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How to tell roommate about planning to live with someone else

My girlfriend (of 4 years), whom I'll call 'Barb', is in medical school and currently lives with a friend of hers, 'Nance', who is in the same medical program. Their lease will end in a few months. Barb and I want to live together next year, but…
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How can I let someone know that they say things that are triggering for me?

This roomie I have often says things that trigger me emotionally. I feel terribly introverted and don't know how to ask him not to say these things. I have been tolerating this for a couple months now and it's really annoying me. I feel indebted to…
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Roommate's dogs won't stop barking

I moved into a shared house where the landlord lives with us and is one of the roommates. She had some dogs that wouldn't stop barking. Generally speaking communication has not been good but for whatever reason the dogs were not in the home for…
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How to deal with a messy flatmate?

I am living with a very messy flatmate. It is a shared living arrangement, where we both pay rent to the landlady. Few instances: Taking out trash: She never took out the trash. Initial agreement was that we would take up the responsibility…
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How to deal with annoying Room mate?

I live in a three bedroom apartment with three of my former colleagues. Two of us have a room of their own, while I share my room with P(his initial name). P is also the most outspoken and social amongst us and we usually have a good chat now and…
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Roommate Upset I Woke Him Up

I encountered a strange situation with my roommate and I'm not sure if I'm the problem and need to change, or if he is just being unreasonable. The context is this: We are living in a house which has 6 people and 3 dogs living in it. There is an…
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How to communicate with flatmate who misinterpreted my words and doesn't want to communicate?

I moved into this flat-share last year, we are four in total. People came and left during these following incidents, but the one I'm talking about and I didn't move. My flatmate and I are both university students (she's a lot older than I am). We…
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