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[orikes]

So, I mentioned recently that I had learned my roommate was moving out. Last week she told me it was official and she would be moving out on September 1st. Last night, though, she came in and said she wasn't moving after all.

*eyeroll*

Apparently, the guy friend she was getting a place with has decided he would rather move in with the girl he met about two weeks ago. Who has three children between the ages of eighteen months and nine years old. And is from North Carolina and doesn't have a job here yet. Yeah...

So, now I don't have to worry about getting another roommate, but I do have to readjust my mindset to the fact that she's not going away any time soon. I suppose I should use this to readjust some of my attitudes towards her and try and work on fixing some of the things that cause friction between us.

The other side effect of this all is that now she's at loose ends when she has free time. For the last year and a half, any free time she's had has been spent with this guy friend of hers. So, I really got the place to myself most of the time. But now she's home and hovering. We don't really have anything in common other than mutual friends, so... blargh.

Ah well. Life goes on.

Comments

[jengagne.livejournal.com]

Sounds like she might be better off without that guy. o_o; yeah. er. yikes.

And I know what you mean about mindset readjustment. Sounds like you're on the right track, though!

[orikes13.livejournal.com]

She was never actually -with- him. She's been crushing on and off over him for the last ten years or more and they had a brief semi-sexual fling ages ago, but for the most part, she just hangs out with him ALL the time.

In part, I think she's been waiting for him to fall in love with her, even though she insists that she doesn't feel like that about him anymore. Of course, this cycle keeps happening. He spends all his time with her until a new girl shows up and then he spends all his time with the new girlfriend until he gets dumped and calls my roommate for a shoulder to cry on. What's worse is that she keeps going back for it!

And she wonders why she can't find a boyfriend ...

[jengagne.livejournal.com]

Urgh. She needs a REAL boyfriend. Or to get more of a life separate from him, either would do... both preferably...

He's keeping her around as an emotional second-stringer, sounds like.