Girl forbids her roommate’s boyfriend from coming in during the week after he ate all the food she prepped for herself without asking: ‘I finally lost it’ – FAIL Blog

What do you do when people don’t respect your property? 

Every human has the right to establish boundaries regarding their personal objects, interactions with others, and a number of other things. When other people don’t respect those boundaries, each person is completely justified in enforcing them in the way they see fit. Obviously, no one should exaggerate the situation, but it’s true that some people don’t get to understand the limit until you shove it in their faces. 

That is pretty much what happened to a woman living with her roommate. They have an arrangement in which they share utilities but buy their food separately. They have different budgets and diets, so they just label what belongs to whom. The arrangement was working fine until one small incident happened. The roommates’ boyfriend usually stays there a few nights a week, and he’s mostly polite and doesn’t get in the way, so they don’t have any issues. That until the first woman came home from a long shift at work, planning to eat the food she had left in the fridge, just to figure out it wasn’t there. At first, she thought she had miscounted and didn’t give it much thought. But when the same thing happened two more times, she realized what was going on: her roommate’s boyfriend was eating her food when he got hungry in the middle of the night. The roommate laughed it off like it was no big deal, but the first woman had had enough. She told her that now her boyfriend couldn’t stay there during the weeknights as long as he kept eating her food (that he hadn’t paid for or cooked, mind you). The roommate said it was unfair, and she was punishing her relationship for a little mistake. 

It seems like no one taught the boyfriend how to read. If all the food in the fridge was labeled, why on earth was he taking things that belonged to his girlfriend’s roommate? No one taught how to respect other people’s belongings either. The solution was simple: the girl had to tell her boyfriend to stop taking things that weren’t his. She didn’t, and now she doesn’t like the consequences. For people to live together in peace, boundaries must be respected.