I’m 32 weeks pregnant and I need to vent about my living situation.
My boyfriend and I have been together for a few years. He even built a room for my five year-old daughter in his house. It is a very tiny condo. His best friend lives with him and pays low rent. He has his own back room with his bed,TV, and couch. We share the laundry room, which is kind of out-of-the-way and the kitchen. The living room is ours, but kind of communal if we all hang out. He got into an accident in January where he was drinking and driving a snowmobile. He broke his pelvis and has been recovering since. He’s been at home this whole time and I’m at home now too because I’m a carpenter and I can’t work at this stage of my pregnancy. Ever since he has been injured, he has been using the living room as his own blasting the TV and using it all day which means I have to hang out in our room if I want privacy. When I come out of the shower, he’s there, I can’t watch anything in the living room because he’s always there monopolizing the TV, and he’s always asking where I’m going. He’s an adult man. He’s recovering from his injury. Has a job to go back to, a lot of savings, but seems to have no desire to leave. He also has a DUI before this and doesn’t have his drivers license so he depends on us for groceries (we are in a very small town). My boyfriend doesn’t want to ask him to leave until he heals. I asked my boyfriend how this is going to work with the baby because I’m not going to have him in the living room blasting the TV while the baby is trying to sleep. The other issue I have is he doesn’t rinse his dishes and rarely takes them to the sink or does dishes. I feel like I’m caring for two grown men. I feel like even after vocalizing this issue it hasn’t really been addressed and I’m seriously considering moving out. I needed to get this all off my chest because I’m incredibly stressed. It doesn’t feel like my home and the circumstances have made this way more of an issue now.