BUT I never liked my boyfriend's ex-roomate! With good reason, too. The guy is a terror. (And you thought my roomate stories were going to be sickeningly positive! *LOL*)
A few words about the roomate: he lies. But for those who don't know him, he's extremely convincing. He also delves uninvited into the other peoples' personal lives. He tries to play matchmakes with resounding failure. He attempts to run everything - whether it's homework groups or club events - as if it's a military exercize. He's disprespectful and disparaging of everyone and everything, unless they (1) represent an authority figure to him, or (2) he thinks they might be a source of income to him (ie. the only people he never disparages are (1) an adjunct professor in our College who's ex-military, and (2) the College's scholarship officer). The only time he's respectful to his parents, girlfriend, friends, etc. are when he wants something from them (most of the time, money). I did not know this at the time that I first met him. I also did not know that in spite of being a sweet, kind person, his girlfriend thought he could do no wrong - it was always "someone else's fault," no matter what the situation, or how blatantly obvious it was the roomate's fault.
The roomate and his girlfriend were good friends of my boyfriend. I actually met my boyfriend through them (at the time, I was casually dating the girlfriend's cousin - confusing yet?
). I sorta hit it off with my now-boyfriend, and we started hanging out a few months later (I was no longer dating the girlfriend's cousin).
The roomate did not like that
at all, and neither did his girlfriend. I think the girlfriend was hoping I'd get back together with her cousin. I think the roomate was hoping the same thing, but for ulterior motives - I think he was interested in my now-boyfriend! (This is speculation, of course, but I'd be willing to bet the farm on this.)
Between those two - the roomate and the girlfriend - they did
everything in their power to prevent anything from happening, to the point of putting their nose much further into either of our personal lives than is decent (even if either of us were inclined to share!). It became unbearable to spend any time at the apartment that my boyfriend and his roomate shared - even if we stopped by to get a snack, either his roomate or the girlfriend were there, and just
stared at us while we went about our business. (That was another issue - the roomate had given his girlfriend a key to their apartment without consulting my boyfriend, but if I wanted to go there with my boyfriend, he had to call his roomate ahead of time and OK it with him first!) At some point, the roomate talked to my boyfriend, and the girlfriend talked to me about their "concerns" about the two of us, and how they felt it was in our best interests to stop seeing each other.
It became more and more sordid and weird...my boyfriend and I were pelted with accusations - mostly by the girlfriend (who was repeating what the roomate told her to). The most amazing thing was that she and the roomate were judging my "relationship" with my boyfriend (it could hardly be termed that at the time, we had barely been dating), and the roomate and she had much *worse* relationship problems.
Suffice it to say, my boyfriend basically moved out within a week of all this tomfoolery occurring, and found his own place.
Oh yeah, and my
fiance and I are still together, thank you very much! The ex-roomate and the girlfriend are not!
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equeen
A Lioness has her Pride!
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