“When Grocery Runs Dry: The Surprising Truth About Roommates’ Eating Habits Revealed!”
Scroll down to find the full story and conversation with Victoria Murray, LCSW, psychotherapist in private practice at Root to Rise Therapy, and Matt Hutchinson, spokesperson for roommate matching site SpareRoom, who kindly agreed to chat with us more about sharing food and kitchen with roommates.
Ensuring peace in a shared kitchen isn’t as easy as it might seem
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And these guys definitely know this, as sharing food quickly became a source of conflict for them
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“You need great communication to get along well with your roommates”
Victoria Murray, LCSW psychotherapist in private practice at Root to Rise Therapy, explains that many people find it hard to share spaces with roommates because we like to be in control and don’t always enjoy compromising. “For many of us, we feel like our way of doing things is the “right way”—for example, putting kitchen supplies away in certain places, leaving the toilet seat up or down, organizing the refrigerator in a certain way, etc.,” she said.
“For most things in life, there is more than one “right way” that it can be done. However, we all get stuck into our habits based on how we grew up and what makes us feel most comfortable. When roommates don’t want to do things the same way we do, resentment builds that can negatively impact the relationship and make us more likely to notice other things they do that aggravate us. Especially for people who have not been in romantic relationships or lived with another person before, putting your own values aside to find compromise with another person can be extra challenging,” Murray further explained.
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