‘[She was] trying to turn him against us’: Loyal roommate breaks up with Karen-ish girlfriend after she tries to get his roomies evicted, epic showdown ensues

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Jesse Kessenheimer • Writer and Editor
Feb 28, 2024 12:00 AM EST

There's no relationship more complicated than that of a person and their roommate's significant other. Like the parasitic third wheel in the house, even the nicest boyfriends and girlfriends can quickly become unlikeable, clogging up the fridge, leaving their belongings in communal spaces, and stealing the quality time you once had with your house-bestie. While it's rare that a roomie's significant other has no lasting impact on the group dynamic, most cases usually result in a hostile home dynamic that can only be solved with warfare. When it comes down to the sanctity of the home, roommates have no choice but to fight fire with fire. 

In our next story, the house dynamic was certainly rocked when Jay, a beloved member of the perfect 4 person household started dating a rogue Karen. Hellbent on turning him against everyone else in the house, this Karen would stop at nothing to create discourse–even when it came to stealing money from the communal grocery jar. Wanting to enjoy a story chock-full of debauchery and scheming? Scroll onward to read about how a secret love affair was weaponized to open the eyes of a treasured homie to the realities of his toxic girlfriend.

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    She tried to get me evicted. got her dumped" GG
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    Posted by u/Shadowe666 2 hours ago Roommate's girlfriend tried getting me evicted, I got her dumped. 7 years ago I moved into a 4 bedroom house with three of my friends. I was the only woman among three dudes, one of the
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    roommates was the owner's son, we were all friends in college and, honestly, it was the best two years ever living situation wise. We all had different work schedules, and because I worked the earliest (6am) I had the only downstairs bedroom. My friend
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    (let's call him Jay) who worked night shift and got home at 4:30am had the room above me so that we didn't wake each other coming home. During the week, Jay and I would eat breakfast together before he went to bed and I went to work.
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    We had a jar in the kitchen we all would throw spare cash in (like $5-$10 at a time each) that was for "common groceries" like milk, eggs, basic bread, and occasional house meals and beer (because we were in our early to mid twenties). The rule
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    was always that if you used the last of the common use stuff, you'd take from the jar to cover the cost and grab it from the store ASAP. When we grabbed pizza or I'd make a meal for everyone, we used the same fund. This all is very important.
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    About five months into the living situation, Jay met Karen and started dating her. He brought her to one of our game nights to introduce her to us to get a feel for how she'd mesh with us, and all was fine when she thought I was only the girlfriend of another roommate. Because we
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    were playing in the dining room right by my room, Karen saw me go in that room to grab a sweater early in the night. Then she saw my roommate (the one she assumed I was dating) go upstairs to grab his phone charger. The entire vibe changed and she started to ask me who I was dating. She was floored when my roommates confirmed I lived there, I had my own room, and I wasn't dating any of them.
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    She saved face, said she was just surprised I'd want to live with three men, and we moved on. Cam (the owner's son) and I were the only ones that realized Karen saw this as a problem.
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    After that, she started coming over right after I got off work and only leaving when Jay went to work. If I came out of my room to the living room, she'd ask why I was out there. If I was going to the kitchen she would remark that I was being
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    disrespectful to her and Jay and interrupting their time together. If I was talking to Jay when she got there, she'd practically grind on him and shove her tongue down his throat. She even complained that I was "ruining the mood" for doing my laundry.
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    Jay had made it clear that he knew she was being a problem and had started pushing for them to just chill in his room. Unfortunately, she used the opportunity to make some of the worst p rn imitation noises any of us other roommates had ever heard. We laughed it off and just left those two alone.
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    After a couple of weeks, she had gotten drunk before Jay went to work and we insisted she stay in his room and sleep it off. I literally brought her food and Tylenol because girl was going to feel like in the morning. The next morning, Jay came home and started making breakfast for me and him when Karen came down and just started
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    SCREAMING. She woke the other two roommates up. She accused Jay of cheating, accused me of having relations with all the guys, then made the dumbest statement possible: she demanded I pay Jay back for the food he was "wasting" on me. Cam literally grabbed a fiver from the jar and slapped it in Jay's hand.
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    Cam and I had a come to Jesus talk with Jay. We both told him if she couldn't deal with me living there, then she could no longer come over. Jay asked for a week to figure things out, trying to claim she was just caught by surprise when she saw him making me breakfast and not thinking clearly. We gave him a week.
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    In that week, mysteriously the grocery jar was getting raided. We all noticed and talked about it. We noticed my clean dishes were appearing (still clean) in the sink. Little things were disappearing from common rooms and weirdly appearing in my room. Karen was being "sweet". She was not exactly covert. Cam and I knew she was sowing chaos but (being curious where this was headed) we just watched.
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    After a week, Cam gets a call from his mom asking if I had been going through something lately. Apparently a "concerned party" had sent her picture after picture and story upon story about how I was trashing the house and stealing. Karen expected this to get me in trouble (lucky for me, my landlord was actually worried I was not doing ok and wanted Cam to help me get through it). Cam told me and I started planning my petty revenge.
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    First thing I did was eliminate the grocery jar. I split up what was in it evenly between the 4 of us and told them that because of the raided stash, I felt it needed to go away. Karen didn't like this, but when asked why she claimed it was " "for me to make a unilateral decision. Cam backed me, battle won.
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    Then I started hanging with Cam in the living room every day. She complained, but Jay told her it's our house and we can do as we please. When she would go to the kitchen, one of always asked what she was doing in our fridge. She stopped going in our fridge after 2 days.
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    The weekend was here and we knew Jay had an extra overnight shift and Karen was planning to stay in his room so they could hang out the next day. Cue my biggest petty move ever. Just a little information: Cam and I met in college where we both studied theater...specifically acting.
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    That Friday we hung out in his room, right next to Karen's. We made a bit of a show when Jay left and acted like he could not know that Cam and I were hanging out alone in his room. This caught Karen's attention. We started shaking the bed (two nerdy people hip thrusting the end of the bed to give the
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    illusion the spicy thing was going down is quite awkward but oh so entertaining). Within minutes we got a text from Jay asking what we were doing. Cam replied "playing video games." After 10 minutes, we stopped the bed shaking and actually did play video games (on mute). When Jay demanded a FaceTime session, he saw exactly what he needed to see: me beating Cam in Mario Party.
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    We cycled through this for a few hours. After a while, we decided to put the finishing touches on. We made a big deal about me "needing" to go to my room before Jay got home, and Karen took the bait. We could see the little bit of light being cut off in the slightly open door by her watching. Cam and I stage kissed, and I headed to the living room.
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    Jay came in 10 minutes later to find me watching a movie (normal for me) and asked what was up. I told him I'd been up playing video games all night with Cam. He tells me Karen claimed we were doing the nasty and I told him we didn't. He goes to bed.
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    The next day Jay calls a house meeting without Karen. He tells us she's making claims of us having a relationship and hiding it from him. We say she's full of it, we tell him about the frame job she tried to pull, how she went to Cam's mom to get me in trouble. Jay asks our other roommate if he heard anything from the bedroom. Bro doesn't even flinch and
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    says "I heard [me] calling Cam her and the usual Mario Party talk. They weren't banging." Jay asked about the grocery jar. We all told him we suspected Karen. The next day he broke up with her for trying to turn him against us. He called
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    her a liar and a thief. A few months later he dated another girl, she was awesome and they're married now. I was a bridesmaid. But the absolute best part: Karen being one of the wait staff and seeing Cam with his wife and me with my fiancé, telling them the story of how we once dry humped a mattress fully clothed to get back at a thief. (Yes, Jay knows the whole story, and he didn't mind at all).
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    Carolinamama2015 1 hr. ago How did Karen react when Jay dumped her? Did she go psycho and they and blame it all on you? Terrific revenge I think it's amazing you all stayed friends
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    Shadowe666 OP 1 hr. ago If I remember correctly, Jay threatened to sue her for the missing cash from the grocery fund if she ever caused a stink. So I did not deal with her after he dropped her.
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    Carolinamama2015 1 hr. ago Nice!! It's refreshing to hear about a guy who had one of his female friends back and didn't destroy your friendship for a crazy gf
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    Spooneristical · 2 hr. ago Love that story, nobody likes a Karen
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