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I made a curry that made the apartment smell yesterday, burnt rice today, now my roommate wants to talk to me about cooking. I am having severe anxiety over this
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Anonymous 1d

You’re allowed to cook food the smells and accidents happen just remember that💕

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Anonymous 1d

1. I agree with #1! However, as a fellow anxious person I will supply potential responses/compromises that you could bring up. If your roommate has an issue with the smell, maybe have a system where you are able to warn your roommate before you make specific foods. That way your roommate can decide if they want to plan to leave the apartment when you cook things that they do not want to smell

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2. If your roommate is upset about cleaning up after you cook then establishing clear expectations about cleaning up after yourself. 3. Maybe your roommate thought your curry smelled amazing and is interested in implementing a system in which you both will occasionally make enough food to share. One thing that helps me is texting the most important details (exact boundaries, requests, etc), to my roommate to that the resolution is in writing. Don’t stop cooking, but find work arounds to issues

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 1d

Ty for your comment! Ik its not about cleaning up since we've already established that system, so i have truly no idea what its about which makes the anxiety worse, plus I've had roommate issues with a different set of people just few weeks ago so I'm really scared im going to lose my current roommate

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