3 weeks down, 49 to go.

I just signed a one year lease and have been living with my boyfriend for 3 weeks now. He is wonderful, our relationship is wonderful, and we are having a wonderful time. His roommate, however, is a psychopath.


Alright, maybe not a legit psychopath, but he is the biggest man child ever. We're two couples living together. There is Me & Boyfriend, and Shitty Roommate & Moron Girlfriend. (Some names have been changed to protect identities.) As far as bills go, each couple is responsible for half the rent and utilities. Also food. When one person cooks, they cook for everyone. So food is community food. When Boyfriend moved in, he bought $200 worth of food. The next week I moved in and bought $150 worth of food. Last week Boyfriend and I spent $80 on food, and I spent an additional $40 for Easter foods. So $470 on food. Shitty Roommate has spent $0. I have fed Moron Girlfriend every night for free. As of today we are dividing the fridge and cabinets, and Moron Girlfriend will have to fend for herself. Shitty Rommate's reasoning is that since he goes to the farmer's market and spends a stupid amount of money on strange produce NO ONE but he will eat, we should pay for everything else.


Speaking on the farmer's market, he wants us to go with him every week. On Saturday, at 7am. He broke my bedroom door last time he asked us to go since we were ignoring his knocking.


Shitty Roommate also hates to do dishes. If there are dishes in the sink, he will break them if he has to do them. Including things like $20 wine glasses.


And the icing in this situation is his pet Rat and how he cars for it. When Shitty Roommate and Boyfriend moved in together a year ago, I lent Boyfriend a couch I had just bought, and was in storage since he did not own one. Shitty Roommate got a pet Rat and has let it LIVE IN THE COUCH. The cushions are torn and ruined, it is probably full of rat piss and shit, and he doesn't see an issue with it. He has gone so far as to offer to have it cleaned when I explained he needed to replace it. This was not a couch I purchased via Craigslist. This is a couch I purchased brand new, with a pullout queen bed, so I could still have company over for a night even if I lived in a one bedroom.


Today I am going food shopping for the week. We made an agreement that I would do all the food shopping since I am a housewife and everyone taking a week and rotating was absurd and hard to keep track of. So Shitty Roommate and I agreed that he would throw $20-$40 in for food for the week. He has never thrown in a dime but always has a list of 20 things he needs from the store.
Today, I tell him when he doesn't want to give me money, that we are splitting the fridge and cabinets and I will no longer be feeding him or Moron Girlfriend. We will see how this works out.