blazeno.8
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I am currently living with someone who is a complete control freak. He has gotten in fights with me over the most trivial things (which oil to use when cooking, sausage casing, me drying pots and pans).
Just tonight he had invited some of his friends over for a movie and I noticed that one of my beers went missing. When I asked him about it, we quickly found out that his friend had taken it and some of his other friends had my beers in hand (unopened thank goodness). For the one who had started drinking my beer, he just took one of his and slid it over to the other side of the fridge. Never mind the fact that it is a completely different flavor. When I told him it wasn't the same thing he told me that he wasn't going to buy me a new pack of beer and that the one he was giving me was better anyways. I mean, since when was it his choice to decide what I find to be a better beer or not? Or what products I should spend my money on?
This isn't the first time that he's stolen something of mine and tried to give me something that I didn't want in return. Over the summer my friends came over for dinner (a friend of ours had just come back from China) and a friend of mine bought Spanish Chorizo for me. This was a very good chorizo because it had a lot of flavor, but wasn't very fatty. I specifically told my house mate that this was off limits and he ate it regardless. Then he tried to bring something back a sausage from Poland (um... chorizo is Iberian) and it got confiscated when he came back to the US because you are not allowed to bring in meat products. His way of making up for the food he stole from me was then to go to Trader Joe's and pick up something that wasn't even remotely like what he had taken from me.
In addition to that, after an altercation where he grabbed my hand and called me "fuck face" (I had been petting my cat and she was on his lap) I decided to move out when the lease was up. He then got a job and decided to move to the city where his new job is. He wanted to break his lease early and wanted to push me to end my part of the lease early. He kept telling me "We need to coordinate moving out" and telling me that "he was only thinking about me". What a mother fucking liar. I told him several times that I would be fine and he didn't need to worry about me, I had signed a contractual obligation and would stay until the end of the lease. He kept on pushing. When we had a meeting with the landlords last night, my suspicions were confirmed. Because I had refused to break the lease with him, he would still be on the hook for rent until our original lease was up and so now he's pushing for me to accept someone as soon as possible.
I mean these are just a couple of examples, there have been so many arguments that revolve around his ego: I don't wash skillets the same way he does, I don't pronounce a Spanish word the same way he does (I'm more fluent than he is), I ask him to turn down the volume because I'm trying to catch some zzz's (he ended up storming out and telling all of my friends that I was 'acting strange'), I told him I wasn't going to buy a $100 kitchen island and he threw a temper tantrum telling me that I needed it. I only agreed to buy it to shut him up and then he got mad when I bought the $60 and then he got mad again when I refused to share it with him... I mean this guy is a trip. I want to pull my hair out.
Does anyone have any advice?
Just tonight he had invited some of his friends over for a movie and I noticed that one of my beers went missing. When I asked him about it, we quickly found out that his friend had taken it and some of his other friends had my beers in hand (unopened thank goodness). For the one who had started drinking my beer, he just took one of his and slid it over to the other side of the fridge. Never mind the fact that it is a completely different flavor. When I told him it wasn't the same thing he told me that he wasn't going to buy me a new pack of beer and that the one he was giving me was better anyways. I mean, since when was it his choice to decide what I find to be a better beer or not? Or what products I should spend my money on?
This isn't the first time that he's stolen something of mine and tried to give me something that I didn't want in return. Over the summer my friends came over for dinner (a friend of ours had just come back from China) and a friend of mine bought Spanish Chorizo for me. This was a very good chorizo because it had a lot of flavor, but wasn't very fatty. I specifically told my house mate that this was off limits and he ate it regardless. Then he tried to bring something back a sausage from Poland (um... chorizo is Iberian) and it got confiscated when he came back to the US because you are not allowed to bring in meat products. His way of making up for the food he stole from me was then to go to Trader Joe's and pick up something that wasn't even remotely like what he had taken from me.
In addition to that, after an altercation where he grabbed my hand and called me "fuck face" (I had been petting my cat and she was on his lap) I decided to move out when the lease was up. He then got a job and decided to move to the city where his new job is. He wanted to break his lease early and wanted to push me to end my part of the lease early. He kept telling me "We need to coordinate moving out" and telling me that "he was only thinking about me". What a mother fucking liar. I told him several times that I would be fine and he didn't need to worry about me, I had signed a contractual obligation and would stay until the end of the lease. He kept on pushing. When we had a meeting with the landlords last night, my suspicions were confirmed. Because I had refused to break the lease with him, he would still be on the hook for rent until our original lease was up and so now he's pushing for me to accept someone as soon as possible.
I mean these are just a couple of examples, there have been so many arguments that revolve around his ego: I don't wash skillets the same way he does, I don't pronounce a Spanish word the same way he does (I'm more fluent than he is), I ask him to turn down the volume because I'm trying to catch some zzz's (he ended up storming out and telling all of my friends that I was 'acting strange'), I told him I wasn't going to buy a $100 kitchen island and he threw a temper tantrum telling me that I needed it. I only agreed to buy it to shut him up and then he got mad when I bought the $60 and then he got mad again when I refused to share it with him... I mean this guy is a trip. I want to pull my hair out.
Does anyone have any advice?