For my first entry, it seems fitting to explain why I feel experienced enough to write on the issues of sharing a living space with a non-family member. You guessed it, I have had some really BAD experiences with roommates. I thought about changing their names to protect the innocent, but then I realized none of these ladies are innocent; they are all guilty of being terrible roommates. I will explain why in the following entries.
As for my background, I am a junior in college and I have lived with three different roommates in the past three years. I consider myself a generally clean and normal person. I do not have family issues or relationship issues. My family isn't perfect, but we are not so dysfunctional that it impedes my daily life, like some other people I know. *wink wink*I do not have major relationship or dating issues either. Thankfully I have been in a happy relationship with my boyfriend for four years now. He does not interfere with my daily life because we attend different colleges (on purpose).
With that being said, I went to college in hopes of building lasting relationships and making huge strides in my personal growth. I have grown in many facets of my life, but the most important change I have made is in the realm of maturity. Due to the life experiences you will have after you move away from home and attend college, maturity is impossible to avoid. Everyone is forced to grow up, and some advance into adulthood more than others. This is one of the great friction points of adolescent roommate relationships: neither person's mommy is around to care for their needs anymore. This leads to numerous issues, some of which will be discussed in the entries to come.
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