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Living with female roomate = weird

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slackerinabox

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OK, so I admit that this thread is a bit immature... Two new roommates, both female, moved into my apartment yesterday and I'm finding the experience quite odd. I live in a 6 bedroom duplex - it pretty much feels like a big dorm. I moved in with 5 guys (4 of them gay) and thought living with so many gay guys would would be weird, but it wasn't at all. Now that my level (lower of the duplex) has a girl living in it, well, things feel weird. I can't lounge around in crappy clothes anymore, I'm always making sure that the bathroom is spotless, and I feel like a pervert everytime I walk by and peak into her room tto say hi (while I had no problem doing so before). It's so weird!

Don't mind me, I know i'm not being retionale, I'm just venting.
 
In my experience it starts off well, then you start to go out with one, then 8 months later all the girls start bitching, then for the next year and a half they're at each other's throats, being nasty pieces of work and causing hideous environments (Women can't just say what's wrong to each other, they have little snide bitchy ways of getting at each other that last weeks or months). Of course, when one is your partner, you always have to take their side, despite them perhaps being 'due on' and completely irrational....


Enjoy.
 
I think you are being a bit too self conscious. Who cares what you wear as long as you aren?t running around nude, but the gay guys might like that 😉 Also why are keeping the bathroom spotless, the only thing you need to do is make sure you put the toilet seat down and don't pee on the floor or in the sink.
 
unless you're looking into a relationship (which is a bad idea) it really shouldn't matter.
 
It's only going to get worse. If it works out for 8months that's pretty good.

Lived with 3 girls my junior fall, I was living in my gf's dormroom by the end of October.

Guys are generally messier than girls, but once girls start to let things slide they are nastier.
And meaner, whatever you do, don't let them play you against each other.
 
Originally posted by: Xanis
First off, we need pics.
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so hurry up with them...

and i don't think it should matter and the only reason youw ould care aboutyour appearence, how the bathroom looks, or dropping in to say hi (specially if you do it more than to the guys or want to anyway) is cuz you find her or them attractive. If you don't then none of this should matter, if you do then you have to somehow get over it and set a boundary so you won't be interested, as soon as you are not interested you won't care about the other things
 
I lived with a few in a 7 room victorian home... Things started off ok but sooner or later you are in for some drama. They'll start talking to you about what other roomates are doing all the while talking badly about you to others. Good luck... I'm sure I just got unlucky with the ones that lived with me.
 
I had a female roommate once and she was the worst roommate. She(and her boyfriend) would go through my things, moan about the bathroom(I'd put the seat down in the main bathroom but I will never sit to pee so whatever). She got offended when I put a lock on my bedroom door and left me holding an expensive lease on my own after we went into this together to reduce our expenses.

Male roommate experiences have been mostly positive but I prefer to live alone. 😛
 
Originally posted by: freedomsbeat212
OK, so I admit that this thread is a bit immature... Two new roommates, both female, moved into my apartment yesterday and I'm finding the experience quite odd. I live in a 6 bedroom duplex - it pretty much feels like a big dorm. I moved in with 5 guys (4 of them gay) and thought living with so many gay guys would would be weird, but it wasn't at all. Now that my level (lower of the duplex) has a girl living in it, well, things feel weird. I can't lounge around in crappy clothes anymore, I'm always making sure that the bathroom is spotless, and I feel like a pervert everytime I walk by and peak into her room tto say hi (while I had no problem doing so before). It's so weird!

Don't mind me, I know i'm not being retionale, I'm just venting.
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have fun with it. you don't have to be so uptight. girls are people too ya know.

 
Keeping the bathroom clean is just good practice. As far as "not wearing crappy clothes" if you have no interest in dating her I'd say feel comfortable doing your usual and don't worry about her.
 
Originally posted by: silverpig
Can't take a wiz in the drinking fountain anymore...

not that I ever did that...

🙂
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and not that you'd have a drinking fountain in your house/apartment anyway.

 
Originally posted by: Xanis
First off, we need pics.
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Dude, taking pictures of my new roommates would be soooO creepy.. I'll wait until (if) we're friendly and take pictures during the natural course of things..
 
Originally posted by: freedomsbeat212
Originally posted by: Xanis
First off, we need pics.
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Dude, taking pictures of my new roommates would be soooO creepy.. I'll wait until (if) we're friendly and take pictures during the natural course of things..
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It's not creepy just tell her it's for all the internet freaks on anandtech that want to see what she looks like.
 
Originally posted by: diapickle
Wow, how do you put up with living with so many others?

And what is your sexual orientation?
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Straight, though I'm a pudgy, non-sporty geeky guy and not a football watching sorta fellow. How do I put up with it? Well, sometimes it's annoying but we have two floors so I only really have 2 floormates. But I spend a lot of my time upstairs and being social because I consider 3 of my guy roommates good friends now and they love Seinfeld and the Family Guy so it all works out...
 
Originally posted by: BillyBatson
Originally posted by: Xanis
First off, we need pics.
Click to expand...

so hurry up with them...

and i don't think it should matter and the only reason youw ould care aboutyour appearence, how the bathroom looks, or dropping in to say hi (specially if you do it more than to the guys or want to anyway) is cuz you find her or them attractive. If you don't then none of this should matter, if you do then you have to somehow get over it and set a boundary so you won't be interested, as soon as you are not interested you won't care about the other things
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I find one of my new roommates kinda cute but she's a) taken [i think] and b) not my type. I do feel weird weiring my fugly sweatpants and stained t-shirts, not because i'm attracted to her but because it feels oddly disrespectful I guess. I don't like get dressed up or anything, but I feel weird wearing pajamas and sucH...
 
Originally posted by: moshquerade
have fun with it. you don't have to be so uptight. girls are people too ya know.
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Agreed. Have had a number of female roommates now, and have found they are often some of the better roommates out there.

(And no, Staples, I won't be posting photographs of any of them - past or present.)
 
Originally posted by: ActuaryTm
Originally posted by: moshquerade
have fun with it. you don't have to be so uptight. girls are people too ya know.
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Agreed. Have had a number of female roommates now, and have found they are often some of the better roommates out there.

(And no, Staples, I won't be posting photographs of any of them - past or present.)
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so.......:camera:s?
 
1. Wear nothing but undewear around the apartment.
2. She will eventually get used to it, and then may decide to do that herself.
3. ????
4. Profit!
 
Originally posted by: ScottSwingleComputers
1. Wear nothing but undewear around the apartment.
2. She will eventually get used to it, and then may decide to do that herself.
3. ????
4. Profit!
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5. Girl finds out
6. Police knocking on your door
 
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