#exroommates

On June 30, 2015, I packed up my car and started the drive from Tennessee back to Florida. A few days before, I had sold the little bit of furniture I had and packed the rest of my stuff into bags and containers. I live simply so I didn’t have much. I left cleaning supplies, kitchen things and the like in the apartment with the roomamte I had. Why did I jsut up and leave? Because I was tired of being the only one paying all the bills. Cable, Electric, the rent....I was paying it all by myself because my roommate didn’t make enough money to support herself, let alone help with the bills. And this exroommate was telling me that she was giving a rent check to the office at the complex and I found out later that she wasn’t. So what they had gotten from me for two months, really only covered one month. I couldn’t ever get straight answers and I was just like, screw it, I’m leaving. We were going to have to move anyways and I wasn’t going to stay and get into the same situation. I had been paying almost everything for the two of us since November 2014 as it was. 

I could blame the exroommate. Because really, she should’ve been responsible and paid her half of everything like we agreed. But, I had let it go on for the months leading up to us getting into that apartment. Really, she wa sshowing her true colors before we ever signed the lease. The signs and red flags that she couldn’t afford the bills were there and I chose to give her second, third and fourth chances. 

Now, I am back in Florida. I am saving money again. I actually have money in the bank. I am paying off the little bit of debt I managed to get into over the last year and I am back at my old place of employment and I love it. I am less stressed, emotionally I am getting better, spiritualy I am getting better. I have completely cut out certain people in my life and I am happy about it. Negativity doesn’t have a place in my life anymore. Supporting someone else and having nothing left for myself isn’t something I will ever do again.