Roommate (35f) is pretty controlling and petty but this last weekend she took it to another level.

Hey Reddit. I live in a shared house with two other woman, both in their 30’s. At the beginning of the month one moved out as she was accepted into grad school out of state (we’ll call her A). Her move out went very smoothly. We found a new roommate to take her place, she cleaned her spaced really well, paid all of her portion of the expenses, and left a portion of her deposit in case anything came up in the future when we all vacate the apartment.

The problem was with the 2nd roommate, we’ll call her C. I’m fairly new to the house, I’ve lived there a few months, but I’m really concerned with her behavior. On 5 or 6 occasions she sent these text chains attacking A over a $30 electric bill. A did not meet C’s aggression and always responded with, “I paid the bill on Xx date.” But C continued her attacks, saying things like ‘I’m not here to babysit you’ ‘tell me when you have the bill paid’ ‘why should I have to check to see if you’ve paid the bill’ this escalated to C hiding A’s tax return that came in the mail and refusing to give it to her. I’m staying out of it as much as possible but I did go into C’s room to find the tax return to give to A.

I’m not sure how to move forward with all of this. C is really controlling in the house in general, I usually ignore her when she goes on her text rants, but I think I need to say something. I don’t know if this would help though or make the next year a living hell. I recently hung a plant from the ceiling in my room and that spurred a rant about how I was going to be responsible for the charges to fix the hole (no duh). I’m not usually confrontational but I see this already getting out of hand. I’m also nervous though because she escalates so quickly.

I should also mention that moving before our new lease is up isn’t an option. Had this behavior surfaced a month ago I would not have resigned a lease with her. I moved in to save money, looks like I’m going to be spending it in therapy.

Tl;dr: roommate is being a controlling and aggressive through text messaging. I’m not sure how communicate with her that her behaviors not ok and live peacefully for the next year.

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