No. 510879
How do I tell my roommate to clean up after herself? We’re both students, but I work, she does not. She stays in our shared space all day, only leaving for class. Our living situation is a bit odd, we basically share one large room with a small bathroom, so there is no private space, and I can see her side of the room at all times and vice versa. She rarely cooks, and when she does, she does not immediately wash her dishes and plates, instead letting them pile up on our dining table. When she runs out of dishes and cookware, she starts to only eat microwave meals, and the trays and trash from that pile up on her desk. I used to be nice and do her dishes when they blocked the sink, but I got fed up of taking care of someone else my age (she also never said thank you, but maybe it was because she was embarrassed). For a while, she was doing pretty good, but just this past week or two the dishes haven’t even been put in the sink, they’re just sitting on our small dining table, and not only is it an eyesore, I think it along with the desk trash could be attracting little gnats or fruit flies. I should mention that she’s openly mentally ill and has trouble with executive dysfunction, and has openly discussed how difficult it is for her to do anything at all, from her classwork to showering etc. I don’t think she’s ever vacuumed or dusted, I do that all because I want to. I don’t know how to tell this adult woman my own age to wash her dishes and take out her trash, as I’ve never been in this situation before. Any advice is appreciated on how I can approach this? I want to be sensitive to her mental issues, but at the same, I don’t want trash and bugs in the place we have to share and look at together.
No. 510886
>>510879I still think that you don’t deserve fruit flies or cockroaches because “much mental health”. Tell her to clean up after herself because you don’t want an infestation.
She already doesn’t clean, the minimum she can do is do her fucking dishes nonna, stop being a doormat.