by Kim Mayers

Created on: March 12, 2007   Last Updated: April 23, 2007

If you've ever had a roommate then you can understand all the conflict that can arise between two people when they live together. I have been in a roommate situation twice in my life and both times ended horribly. My first roommate was a nightmare and treated me like garbage and my second, well, let's just say I am completely broke and in debt because she refused to keep up her end of the bargain.

My first roommate and I moved in together when I was 22. I had just ended an almost 3 year relationship with my college sweetheart and was going through a tough time at home when we decided that since we'd been friends for over 2 years we could handle living together and I moved out. This was my first biggest mistake ever. Things were great at first, we would have movie night together, hang out with our friends, and basically just bum around the apartment doing nothing. We shopped for groceries together and ate dinner together. Basically we did EVERYTHING together. Then it all began to fall apart. My roommate became more and more agressive when it came to things she wanted. We had to have a big TV because she wanted one. We had to have the best DVD player because she wanted one. We had to have every game console released because she wanted it. And I gave in to everything she wanted. It was ok at first because, well, I wanted it too. But when the bills started to come and they were higher and higher each month we were beginning to have a problem communicating because she made more money than I did and wouldn't sit down and talk to me about the problems I was having financially. I lost my car in the whole ordeal because I couldn't afford to make the payments. I also almost lost my job because, not having a car, I couldn't get to work. She also made it a point to ruin every single relationship I was getting into by telling the guy I was a stalker and crazy and they should stay away from me. Needless to say that was the end of it all. I then did the ultimate no no and just packed everything up and left. Our one year lease was over by then and I was under no obligation to stay. She even managed to ruin my financial life by withdrawling all the money in a joint account we opened for our bills and letting it stay open after taking her name off. The account accumulated fees that were outragous and now I can't get a bank account anywhere because of this. That is a huge list of what NOT to do to your roommate.

My second roommate was a little different. She was a good friend for

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