Right now my roommate can go fuck herself.
I'm tired of feeling like the bad guy pretty much every time I open my mouth to say something about something she has done. Not even maliciously, not even with IRRITATION in my voice. Just making a goddamn observation and saying, "Oh hey, just let me know when---" and yadda yadda.
Pretty much every day this week she has been in my room watching TV when I'm not home. I haven't really cared because my TV is the only one right now with a cable box. However, I came home from school today to just see her chilling in my room watching TV again. All I said was, "hey, could you let me know when you're gonna be in here? I'm not kicking you out, I'm just saying to let me know is all." She says okay. I ask her how class was. She says okay. I can see the color changing in her cheeks that show she's gonna start crying. Right now, I have no fucking sympathy for that. I go to brush out my hair and I see her walk back to her room with all her stuff. I ask if she's crying. I get no answer. At this point, I'm just exasperated. I go into my room and just shut my door.
It's not like this has only happened once. This happens almost every time I say something to her about informing me of shit she's gonna do.
I've said to her SEVERAL times, that she needs a bigger backbone if she's gonna be living with me. She said that's fine. I've said she's gonna have to talk to me about shit because I'm not her bitchy mother who thinks that being silent means everything will just "go away." She said okay.
So far, I feel like the BIGGEST prick for being MYSELF. We've been living together for three weeks. A good percent of the time we are fine. But when this happens, it's a fucking waterworks show because she is practically unable to talk about things that bother her. It bugs the absolute shit out of me. First because she's crying and I hate watching women cry, and secondly, because it's like...are you shitting me right now? I'm not mad, I"M NOT EVEN IRRITATED, and you're crying like I fucking slapped you? Oh, hell fucking no.
I tell her shit to get her to stop crying. I'm not lying when I say these things to her, but it's also like, I'm not gonna compromise myself to make someone else feel better. That's not how it works for me. I'll tone down my language or how I talk, but I'm sorry, I won't change that part of myself to spare someone's feelings. I just won't. I'm not built that way.
So right now, my roommate can suck it up.