Living with a roommate can be a rollercoaster of experiences, but what happens when your roommate’s quirks start to affect your daily life and wallet? One guy is facing this dilemma as his best friend’s bathroom anxiety is causing a spike in their bills and leaving him shivering in cold showers. Let’s dive into this steamy situation!
The Perfect Roommate Setup?

Quarantine’s Impact on Bills

The Financial Difference

Old-Fashioned Roomie

Bathroom Anxiety Revealed

The Unusual Bathroom Ritual

Drawing Attention

The Cost of Comfort

A Sensitive Topic

The Big Question

A Steamy Situation: Can It Be Resolved?
So, our protagonist is stuck in a pickle. His best friend’s bathroom anxiety is causing their bills to skyrocket and leaving him with cold showers. While he’s tried to address the issue before, she shut it down quickly. Now, he’s left wondering if he’d be the bad guy for asking her to seek help or mentioning it’s a problem. Let’s see what the internet thinks of this hot mess!
Roommate’s bathroom anxiety causes hot water waste. White noise solution suggested. NTA.
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NTA for suggesting cold shower to save water and money

Make her pay the water bill entirely

NTA suggests a polite solution to roommate’s bathroom anxiety

Roommate’s bathroom anxiety causes hot water and loud music

Stop the water waste! NTA but everyone needs to change.

Concerns about bulimia met with reassuring response

Overcoming bathroom anxiety: a deep mental insecurity.

Suggesting an app to help with bathroom anxiety and water-saving

Rock out to metal when roommate’s shower anxiety strikes! m/

Running cold water is wasteful and a dealbreaker for me

Compromise is key for roommate’s bathroom anxiety

NAH with bathroom anxiety, talking may worsen the situation.

Shower or dump? The ultimate bathroom dilemma

Empathetic comment suggests white noise machine to mute bathroom sounds

Embrace the talk! Confront roommate about water waste.

Normalize poop talk to help roommate overcome bathroom anxiety

Soothing solutions for a steamy situation.

Suffering from bathroom anxiety, but wasting water is not okay

Roommate’s bathroom anxiety causing hot water shortage
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Suggesting a book for bathroom anxiety with tactful advice.

Navigating shame and guilt with a roommate. NTA wins.

Roommate with bathroom anxiety? NTA suggests water bill solution

Suggests cold water for noise, offers bill-splitting solution.

Roommate’s bathroom anxiety causes hot mess and bill dispute

Normalize bathroom talk to help roommate overcome anxiety

Taking cold showers to accommodate roommate’s anxiety
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Roommate’s bathroom anxiety needs therapy, not hot water

Toilet paper lifehack and fiber diet advice for splash anxiety

Roommate’s bathroom anxiety leads to over-the-top measures

Commenter questions hot water usage for bathroom anxiety.

Suggests exposure therapy via Taco Bell for roommate’s anxiety.

Keeping the radio on in the bathroom to avoid conclusions

Prankster roommate fights back against bathroom anxiety with fart machine

Debunking the myth of sticking out your pinky while drinking

Suggests white noise machine to help roommate with bathroom anxiety

Football trash talk in bathroom anxiety thread? Classic Reddit.

Suggests creative ways to deal with roommate’s bathroom anxiety.

Gentle approach to a roommate’s bathroom anxiety

Suggesting a subtle solution to roommate’s bathroom anxiety

Quick fix for roommate’s bathroom anxiety
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Roommate’s shower habit causes conflict. Cold water not enough?

Hot water debate heats up in bathroom anxiety thread

The dangers of bathroom anxiety and its impact on mental health

Possible learned behaviors from abuse affecting roommate’s bathroom habits.
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Commenter questions functioning of people with bathroom anxiety.

Respect privacy, but don’t foot the bill for extra usage.

Roommate’s hot water anxiety causing cold showers. NTA suggests compromise.

Suggest gentle solutions in writing to avoid awkward confrontation.
