I made a post yesterday that probably no one saw about my roommate, Bailey, who has been stealing my food and lying about it.
Today I found out he has lied about so, so much more. When he first moved in he told me his parents were dead. Specifically, his mom died of a heroin overdose when he was 9 and his dad was shot when he was 15. I didn’t have any reason to doubt this, so I just though “poor, poor Bailey, this is so terrible” and began to care deeply for him. It made me so sad that he had no family and as we became better friends I grew to really like him as a person.
We’ve lived together about three months, and during this time we’ve had countless heart-to-hearts, cooked many meals together (he’s an amazing cook) and gone on lots of adventures. But all along he has been stealing my food, and denying it every time. At first I believed him, and was thinking I must have eaten it myself or thrown it out or something. It made me feel like I was going crazy. The same thing happened two days ago and I was mad at him, but after initially lying about it he did eventually admit he ate my food. But then yesterday I found more of my stuff gone and got really frustrated, and when I blew up at him he got mad at me for reacting and it seemed like he was trying to make me feel guilty.
All the lying about eating my food got me wondering what else he lied about. So I tried googling him plus the name of the instrument he plays and found a picture of him in high school, in the city where we live now. He had told me he moved all over the place after his parents died and had only lived here since December. After finding out what part of the city he went to school in, I tried looking up his name plus the location and found a whole article about him and his parents moving to this city when he was 14 to be closer to his sister (he told me he had no siblings) and her baby.
I’m fucking floored to say the least. I can’t believe he lied to me about his entire life story and I don’t know what to think. I know I can’t trust him anymore and I’ve put all my stuff that was in common spaces in my room and started locking my door. I just feel so betrayed and don’t know how I’m going to get through the next two months until the lease is up.
TL;DR: roommate who I thought was just kind of annoyingly stealing my food turned out to have a completely different life story than he told me. I’m kind of in shock and feel betrayed and confused.
Submitted May 02, 2019 at 08:03AM by WellGreatThanks http://bit.ly/2vwtMCI
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