TL;DR: a few little things like requiring my door be closed, different personalities in the shared house and different work schedules for some reason came together to make me not so functional in this place I'm renting. But I'm moving out!
Luckily I'm moving out soon... but some damage has been done... it's been way too long living here.
Renting a room. All I can afford in this inflated area.
It's a man who is older who rents to me. I'm a dude, half his age. He said he works but is off for a bit, but okay he's just been off period, morning until night watching TV in the living room.
There is a lot of stuff I have to do that requires me on my computer, including work and so I am in the place. I also get started a bit later and work later. So he's usually up and in front of the TV before I've left my room. The room has a bathroom so it's pretty self sustaining to be in the room.
He has cats and requires me to shut my bedroom door always so they don't get in. So that means when I'm in my room, I always have the door shut. It makes me feel like a recluse. And then I get the vibe he sort of treats me like that, like he asks me these questions all the time like he's suspicious what I'm up to. He is giving me a very strange look when asking me that like I'm a freak. Like if I'm not in the living room watching TV or at work, something is weird with me.
I don't want to get too "paranoid" but it really seems like sometimes he'll be right outside my door. The other day he sneezed super loud, but it felt very pushed out and forced (lol) and it was right outside my door. Or he will cough really loud right outside my door after like a long pause of silence where he paused the TV and walked near my room.
Like dude you tell me to keep the door shut. What am I supposed to do?
So I find myself trying to change my behavior just so he isn't on me. Like even if I should really work on my computer more in my place, I make myself leave and find a coffee shop or something. But then I need some papers in my drawer and don't have them, or I would like to have some food and not always buy expensive café stuff.
I can communicate with other people, but for some reason I struggle to communicate with him. Anyway I'm moving out. But even trying to get ready for the move etc, I find I'm not functioning well in the place.
Usually it's me getting up sort of late, maybe going on my phone (I know bad habit) and then it's like oh damn it's 11am or something (I work late okay!) and then it's like okay I'm kind of a weirdo freak for saying in my room this long, so I should go, and then he's weirded out by me, so I might talk, but it's like okay well I'll head out, and then I sort of leave, find a place to do my work online, but I just feel I've been wasting buckets of time.
Anyway I can't wait to have my own place again (no roommates) oh my yes! I like roommates but something about this particular setup that is driving me insane.
Relate? I'm sure I have issues lol but something is off about him too and just this setup.
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