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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, do you get along otherwise or are there other points of contention?  If everything else is ok and she pays her bills on time, I think each of you can give a little to make this work.  You can let her have the last two utensil slots, rinse your recyclables,  put your leftover take-out in a gallon zip, and  check the frig more often for moldy food.  She can buy the gallon ziplocks/baking soda,  and clean the common areas to her hearts content.  She needs to keep her hands off your stuff otherwise.  I've lived with worse roommates (sticky notes all over everything, dishes piled up high, missing food) and made it work.  You mentioned there were kids living there.  I wondering why they weren't mentioned as being part of the situation.[/quote]

Thanks PP, I am not going into too many details because, do you really want my and her life story?  For the most part we hardly ever see each other.  She seems like generally a nice person. As others on the thread have observed, she seems a bit OCD.

I wanted unbiased third party input and so I am not giving too much info, just the actual emails then answering questions if I think it makes sense to do so.  The level of (what I would consider to be) nitpickiness seemed kind of nuts to me so I wanted outsider's opinions.

I've lived with many roommates and actually, some of my closest friends are my former roommates.  I've never had a roommate (before) with whom I had a conflict.  Wan't always perfect but overall, worked out fine. One was my maid of honor even.....

There have been other examples of her fretting over things that seem a little weird to me - example, she was very concerned about the way my lawn mowing company mulches the lawn clippings because they are, she said, "killing the other plants".  Sent me an email to ask me to speak with them about it.  I'm a gardener but not overly concerned about what the mowers do with the lawn clippings.  I'm the homeowner, why she's worried about my plants I can't imagine.

We have a six month lease and I think that I'll just end it when it expires because we are not compatible.  I'm pretty clean, and as I said the house is professionally cleaned weekly, and my kids and I are rarely at home - lots of after school activities.  But with two kids and a full time job, I don't think I am going to ever be able to meet a self-confessed "perfectionist" standard whose mom kept a house clean enough to eat off the floor. (Strange though, she doesn't mind her own dirty dishes in the sink for a couple days?)  Hell last night my four year old had an accident (in child's own bathroom) all over the floor.  Of course I cleaned it up.  But the idea of floors you can eat off of makes me want to laugh :)

Generally she just seems determined to be unhappy and I'm tired of feeling like I'm walking on eggshells worrying about what is going to result in a bizarre three paragrpah email about silverware sorting systems next....So I guess for the next several months I'll redouble my efforts to make it work and just count the days 'til it's over.  [/quote]

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