Internet Sides With Man Demanding Housemate's Girlfriend Pay Rent or Leave

The internet is backing a man who told his housemate that the latter's girlfriend can no longer stay at their apartment.

The 24-year-old Reddit user, who uses the handle kindafunctionalguy, shared the story on the popular r/AmITheA**hole sub, where it has received more than 15,000 upvotes and hundreds of comments.

In the post, he explained: "I share an apartment with a friend I've known for years. We have had this place for over a year and haven't had any real issues, we get along well and do heaps together. He works full time, I am a university student and we split all bills, food, and rent down the middle."

But after sharing their home with no issues for over a year, the Redditor revealed that the housemate's new girlfriend was causing problems.

"A few months ago, he started dating a girl—T—who spends every day and night at our place. Until recently, I have had no issue with T being here and have never asked her to pay for anything," explained the poster: "She eats all meals at our place and takes food to uni if she needs. The way I see it, housemate and I just buy a bit more food and it really doesn't matter."

But a few weeks ago, the Redditor arrived home and went to the kitchen to make a coffee. When he opened the fridge, he noticed some Red Bull cans and grabbed one to drink. But the next morning at breakfast, T opened the fridge and was extremely angry that one of her Red Bulls was missing.

"I said it was me and I thought my housemate had got them," wrote the poster: "She started telling me how she bought them for herself and I should have asked and that I needed to apologize for taking it.

"I was going to tell T that it's my fridge and I shouldn't have to ask if I can have stuff in it, but I didn't want to start conflict so just apologized," said the poster.

After demanding he buy her a replacement, T has also started labeling her food and drink in the house.

Since the argument, the Redditor told his housemate that he no longer wanted the girlfriend staying at their house unless she was going to pay her way. "I don't want to pay for her anymore just so that she can abuse me for taking a drink from my own fridge," he wrote.

In 2017, the blog RentCafe surveyed over 1,500 people to ask them what causes conflict in roommates. Close to 60 percent said that they did not fight with their roommates at all, but disagreements did happen.

When it comes to the things that upset people the most, 20 percent said that not paying rent was the worst offense, while 12 percent cited uncleanliness and 16 percent said they disliked a roommate's passive-aggressive behavior.

Redditors headed to the comments to share their thoughts, overwhelmingly siding with the poster and slamming the girlfriend's behavior.

"NTA," said one commenter: "She has to chip in if she's staying over that much. It's still your house and your fridge."

Another reply said: "At the very least I would say 'If you are going to eat my food I will eat yours,' if that isn't acceptable then your food should be in your fridge at your apartment. She can't have it both ways."

"You were being more than generous and she took advantage and now has flipped the vibe and sharing arrangement you and your roommate had," said one commenter.

In a later update, the poster said: "Since I talked to him about her needing to pay or leave, she has spent more time at her own place but now just comes round and has the ability to kill the mood in any room.

"I want them to separate, I think he cant see this lasting either...but she is hot and he thinks with the wrong head..."

Newsweek reached out to kindafunctionalguy for comment.