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Roommate Rants 9w
Unpopular opinion: the vast majority of y’all’s problems could be solved if you STOPPED trying to be close with your roommates
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Anonymous 9w

where is this take coming from 😭

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Anonymous 9w

HA this is great timing 🤣🤣

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Anonymous 9w

Is it a bad thing to want to be close? Or just to force it? I havent met mine yet.

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Anonymous 9w

bro my roommate and i barely fucking spoke unless we needed too. did we hate each other? nope but we co habitated well and understood it wasn’t malicious, we just valued our “me time” more

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Anonymous 9w

My freshman year roommate fought with me because I told her I wanted us to separate our issues as roommates and friends lol.

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Anonymous 9w

i’m not even! she’s trying to be close w me and her mom is also forcing it by texting me every day and inviting me over.

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Anonymous 9w

I think OP is just tying to say that it don’t matter if y’all are close or just acquaintances. Just don’t care and let whatever happens happen

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Anonymous 9w

Is it bad to be friends with your roommate? Not before becoming roommates but after.

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Anonymous replying to -> #6 9w

no it's not bad. it will depend if your personalities mesh well together. i'm friends with three of my roommates, we are all very closes. the fourth one not so much but that's because of how she would respond when we tried to bring up problems we had

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Anonymous replying to -> #5 9w

it’s not bad at all! some people just don’t prefer it but won’t outright say it. lowkey rude but atp who cares bc they sure don’t 💀

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Anonymous replying to -> #4 9w

If it don’t apply, let it fly

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Anonymous replying to -> #5 9w

No it’s not bad at all, but if you weren’t friends to begin with, it’s likely you won’t build a genuine friendship with your roommate. So there’s OFTEN (not always) no good reason to force being close with them

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Anonymous replying to -> #5 9w

Ofc be kind, courteous, and cordial but don’t overextend yourself and you should be fine. If a friendship happens that’s fine, but don’t stress just bc it doesn’t happen

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Anonymous replying to -> #7 9w

Yeah that’s exactly what I meant. I think forcing it is where the problems come from. Ppl are trying to force friendships with people that under ordinary circumstances, they’d NEVER befriend

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 9w

I saw this post where this girl was a bit upset bc her roommate didn’t buy groceries for the both of them, even though the girl who made the posts bought groceries. If she never overextended herself like that, the wouldn’t feel a way about her RM not reciprocating

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 9w

friend, i was js engaging in the convo.

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Anonymous replying to -> #4 9w

My fault

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