Cat lady refuses to give up kitten when her roommate's boyfriend complains about his allergy after a 2-week trial period: 'I'm going back on our agreement!'

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  • A woman sits on a bed in pink pajamas while her white cat looks off-camera.
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  • "[Am I wrong] for keeping my cat even though my roommates boyfriend is allergic"

    My roommate who I have 10 months left on the lease with is demanding I get rid of the cat | adopted two weeks ago
  • because her boyfriend is allergic and is having "severe" allergic reactions even when he is not around my apartment or my roommate. She
  • knew he was allergic before I adopted the cat and told me I could get the cat if I took precautions to reduce the allergens. An expectation.
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  • was set that we would see how things go for two weeks - I really meant a little longer than that but she took it literally.
  • I foolishly said that if in a a week or two after trying the stuff to reduce allergens then I'd see about rehoming the cat. I
  • know this was dumb, and it was dumb for both of us to agree to this as I don't think I could ever actually get rid of a cat like that, especially one that is as sweet and cute and perfect as mine. Her
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  • boyfriend hasn't taken any allergy medication because he feels it's unnecessary.
  • So now my roommate basically texted me demanding that it's been. two weeks and that it's not working out and that I have to get rid of my cat.
  • My roommate says she doesn't want her boyfriend to be allergic to her and is asking when she can expect the cat to be gone. I've gone above and beyond to limit the allergens buying - - allergy-reducing food,
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  • allergy-reducing spray, air purifier, vacuuming regularly, buying claritin for the boyfriend - and I feel my roommates boyfriend should at least try taking allergy medication. He's acting
  • like I'm asking him to take crazy ill il dr, I think she's scared that he's not going to want to hang out with her anymore. It's creating a lot of tension and she's saying that I'm going back on our agreement.
  • However, I think she needs to wait longer because the allergen reducing food I have takes 3-4 weeks to even start kicking in, and I think her bf needs to try allergy meds. I don't want
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  • to get rid of her, she is also my ESA and I have legal documentation stating that. If I absolutely have to I can move her to my boyfriends house who
  • has no pets but I really don't want to and I think she's being a bit unreasonable since her boyfriend doesn't live with us and technically
  • should have no say anyways. I acknowledge that there is a certain level of not coolness in me technically going back. on our agreement, but
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  • neither of us should have even agreed to that. Would I be the a hle if I kept my cat?
  • Edit: I have a third roommate who is chill with the cat, and I forgot to add that his last gf apparently had a cat. So his allergies couldn't have been that bad
  • A woman in pink pajamas looks at her white cat crawling on the headboard of her bed.
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