Your Relationship With Your Roommate As Told By "Friends"

By Alexandra Brown on March 6, 2015

A huge part of college life is living in a dorm, house, or apartment with roommates. Along with this comes relationships you’re going to have with these roommates, no matter how strong, weak, real, or fake.

Coming into college as a freshman, you will most likely have one other roommate in the dorms. Maybe you will know this person from high school or somewhere else, or you will come in the “blind” route. Either way, you’ll most likely click with that person and develop a friendship, or they’ll just be someone who lives with you for one year in college; that’s fine too.

Regardless of what kind of relationship you end up having with your freshman roommate, or your roommates later on in college, every set has their ups and downs. They get into sticky situations, childish and petty arguments, they have fun going out together, and they steal each other’s clothes. Through all of it, though, they have each other, just like the characters of the TV show “Friends.”

Whether it’s Monica and Rachel’s close but complicated relationship as roommates, or Chandler and Joey’s bromance, they’ll all always be there for each other. You and your roommate probably relate to these fictional characters more than you think.

Here is your relationship with your roommate as told by “Friends.”

1. Groceries can get tricky.

Sometimes, the whole food situation can get a little complicated. Maybe you and your roommate have worked out the strategy of each buying your own food, so as to not have to deal with paying each other back, or sharing.

Regardless, sometimes things just happen, like you coming home late from working out one night, realizing your grocery selection is just unacceptable, and deciding to help yourself to some of your roommate’s food. What could possibly go wrong?

2. Your cleaning habits may differ.

You may be extremely messy, while your roommate may be the biggest neat freak you’ve ever met, or vice versa. Either way, this dynamic can get frustrating after a while, especially if you both have different expectations about the cleanliness of the apartment in general.

3. Everyone deals with maintenance issues in their own way.

If anything goes wrong in the apartment, like the oven breaks, a window is cracked, or a lock on one of the doors isn’t functioning properly, the most efficient thing to do is usually to send in a maintenance request to your landlord.

Some roommates will be on top of this, whereas some tend to deal with these problems in their own way.

4. Your relationship may be a tad one-sided.

Like every relationship, you might think of your roommate as a closer friend than they think of you, or the other way around. Or, you or your roommate might act like this is the case when you’re really hiding how much you each do really care. Everyone’s different.

5. You interfere in each other’s love lives.

Whether you’re in a class together, at a party or a bar, or just on the street on campus, you or your roommate never fails to either embarrass you in front of your crush, or encourage you to talk to them if you’re out.

Regardless of the result, you each never mean any harm. After all, what are friends for?

6. You never hesitate to mock each other.

Everyone has weird quirks, whether it’s the way you eat, certain hand gestures you make when you’re talking, the way you laugh, the way you enunciate certain words, or something else that might be embarrassing.

When you live with someone long enough, like your college roommate, and you see them basically every day, it’s hard not to notice these things. Because of this, you’ll jump at any chance you get to make fun of each other.

7. But you’re always there for each other to vent.

Maybe you had a hard academic week and need someone to talk to. Or, your having troubles with your boyfriend or drama with your friend group.

Coming home to your roommate and being able to vent to them about your problems is just something that comes along with living together, and you’re both always there for each other when it comes to talking it out.

8. And regardless of everything, you have each other’s backs.

Living together has brought you closer together. You’ve learned a lot about each other just from living in such close quarters and seeing each other every day.

You each know when there’s something wrong with the other, and you each go out of your way to make the other feel better when they’re down. You have each other’s backs.

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