She was standing with her back turned to the street when my friend and I pulled in to park in front of his building. “No she’s definitely not getting the room!” My friend said immediately as she turned to look at us. There she stood, a slim short-haired lady in her late forties wearing cropped
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Even thinking about getting a roommate can be nerve racking if you have never done it before. It frightens us because we don’t really know what to expect. And, of course, we would try to make the whole experience more comfortable and predictable by trying to find a friend or at least someone we have known for
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  Nowadays living with a roommate (or roommates) is becoming more of a lifestyle than a money saving necessity. Sharing an apartment with a roommate is being slowly transformed into sharing a home with a friend. You know, a roommate friend, where your apartment is the building base for your friendship. To keep this friendship smooth
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My  friend told me once that the best roommate she ever had insisted on them sitting down and literally writting through their whole life together before they moved in. There were such things as no TV or music after 11pm, or no dishes in the sink at 7 am, or no visitors overnight unless it
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If you analyze your most recent fight you will most likely come to a conclusion that you have overreacted and the whole thing could have been settled in a much more peaceful way. In fact, maybe, there would be no fight at all. Having arguments and fights is usually normal and even healthy, as long as
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Peace and comfort at home is one of the key components of a happy and productive life, so it’s completely understandable that you want relationships with your roommate be as smooth as possible. Money issues are among the most sensitive subjects in the world and sometimes a few bucks really don’t worth the drama, but
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Have you ever wondered why two adequate people living together as roommates start fighting over things like groceries or toilet paper? Why can’t they just sit down and talk and straighten things out in a civilized manner? The answer is, they are too different to understand each other, their personalities don’t match and they psychologically
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The pearl I have found on a website called Arts-stew.com A Mom visits her son for dinner who lives with a girl roommate. During the course of the meal, his mother couldn’t help but notice how beautiful his roommate was. She had long been suspicious of a relationship between the two, and this had only
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