jschuley
Active member
I live in a house with three roommates, and I was the latest person to move in. When I got back from my family's house for thanksgiving, my roommate jen p had put up christmas decorations.
Get this, she hung three stockings on the wall. One for her, one for her boyfriend, one for our other roommate (my best friend). No stocking for me.
I have lived here for several months and she was the one who invited me to live here--although we are not close, we talk on almost a daily basis, and we've gone to the store together, and watched tv shows and movies together, seriously?? How could she hang up three stockings when four people live here?
It just really hurts me. It makes me feel like I'm not a real person or something. Like I don't warrant consideration, like I'm not a part of the holidays here, and I'm just supposed to sit around and watch while the three of them are some kind of happy family during christmas as if I'm not even there. I'm tired of being an outsider, and it doesn't seem like I should have to be. She couldn't just put up another stocking?
Maybe I'm over reacting, maybe she only had three stockings to put up. But I know she's been to the store several times and bought a lot of presents to put under the tree and she's put a lot of stuff in those three stockings, if she wanted, she could buy a fourth stocking. Now, she has bought me a present, which is nice, but the stocking thing is weird, isn't it?
It just kind of makes me feel unwelcome. It's just really inconsiderate of her. Am I making too big a deal out of this?
Get this, she hung three stockings on the wall. One for her, one for her boyfriend, one for our other roommate (my best friend). No stocking for me.
I have lived here for several months and she was the one who invited me to live here--although we are not close, we talk on almost a daily basis, and we've gone to the store together, and watched tv shows and movies together, seriously?? How could she hang up three stockings when four people live here?
It just really hurts me. It makes me feel like I'm not a real person or something. Like I don't warrant consideration, like I'm not a part of the holidays here, and I'm just supposed to sit around and watch while the three of them are some kind of happy family during christmas as if I'm not even there. I'm tired of being an outsider, and it doesn't seem like I should have to be. She couldn't just put up another stocking?
Maybe I'm over reacting, maybe she only had three stockings to put up. But I know she's been to the store several times and bought a lot of presents to put under the tree and she's put a lot of stuff in those three stockings, if she wanted, she could buy a fourth stocking. Now, she has bought me a present, which is nice, but the stocking thing is weird, isn't it?
It just kind of makes me feel unwelcome. It's just really inconsiderate of her. Am I making too big a deal out of this?
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