Your roommate is practically perfect. She’s clean, kind, totally responsible, and she’s turning out to be a great friend, too. There’s just one small problem, as you guys have grown closer she seems to have picked up a new habit — she copies everything you do.
At first you try to write things off as coincidence, but before long you just can't make excuses for her anymore. She buys the same clothes as you and she decided that your favorite movies are hers, too. You feel like you’re back in junior high, except she’s calling your friends separately, flirting with your boyfriend, and she's even started to mimic your eating habits. She's obviously insecure and you don’t want to make her feel bad, but you just can't take it anymore, so how would you handle this?









Betty Jackson
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I would have to talk to her about it and let her know how I feel and if that doesnt work then I would have to move out and end the friendship. Last thing I need is a stalker.
1OMG. I had a friend like this in 7th grade! We eventually became best friends and she would sleep over at my house like every weekend but then she started dressing like me and acting like me and it was getting to the point where everyone was asking me where she was when we weren't together! The deal breaker though was when I had broken up with my boyfriend and not even one week after she started pursuing him! Needless to say we are not friends anymore!
2I've had a friend like this in high school.
3At first it was admiration then, it turned to jealousy....
As a result, I broke the friendship off with her.
Ack! Has anyone seen "Single White Female"? I don't think anything good could come from this type of situation.
4OMG I need to share a similiar story. My bf's roommate is like this!! A guy! Its so obnoxious. It does'nt seem to bother my bf but for some reason it drives me nuts. My bf is very health concious and works out, now his roommate is that way too. My bf bought a new car, guess who strolls in with a new car! and the list goes on!! I think its weird.
5I can completely understand someone wanting to be as wonderfully fabulous as I am, but the moment she starts flirting with my bf it is done. I wouldn't be caring less about her feelings as she obviously doesn't care about mine, she would definately get a piece of my mind. I know it isn't all nice and diplomatic but some people need a slap around their head (figuratively speaking).
6^^^Well...
7I would absolutely just f*ck with someone like that.
Start getting really into wearing just one leather glove and sunglasses shaped like hearts.
I'd see just how far I could take it before she cracked.
8well i kind of have this problem. she doesn't flirt with my boyfriend or call my friends separatly, but she mimics what i do, buys what i buy and pretends my favorite music, tv shows, movies ect., are her favorites. she's been a best friend of mine for like 7 years and i've just put up with it. not really sure why....
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popgoestheworld, i'm trying that and she'll totally go for it...*sigh*
10I think that I am one of those types who is inclined to be the copy-er...I would never take it to a stalker level, and luckily my bff doesn't have a style that I really go for, but I have several friends that just have the cutest styles and it is IMPOSSIBLE not to want to copy off of them just a little bit
11I like popgoestheworld's tactic. Yeah!
12This is SO annoying, I've had a couple people do this to me in the past. More of a nuisance than anything.
But the whole flirting with your man and calling your friends is taking it to another level, in my opinion. She sounds very unstable. I'd be cautious about handling the situation, but I'd DEFINITELY confront her. And find another roommate. Single White Female is written all over this one.
13Hmm, maybe it's just me but I dislike this sort of dependency. Apparently, she has a desire to be you. Sounds juvenile, imo.
14i like popgoestheworld's approach, but the b*tch (roomate) sounds nuts.
like a bad Lifetime movie.
fux that.
i don't deal with creepy people.
you gon' wake up in the middle of the night and she gonna be standing over your bed, or hell, laying next to you!
or you come home one day and she's walking around in your draws (undies).
you ain't gonna be happy until she starts stealing your credit too.
15Jeez! Single White Female much?
Anyone remember that movie?
It never quite happened to me, but a good friend of mine experienced that and it wasn't pleasant.
Avoid at all cost.
16yes nevaeh, i remember that movie. and a b*tch was running from that h* in her own house!!!
and the dog got pushed over the ledge!
she got that b*tch in the end!
i loved that movie!
17The roommate seems a bit unstable. It's one thing to admire someone and their style and want to copy that, but if she's calling my friends and flirting with my boyfriend, then I think I would be moving out. That's taking things too far.
18hahaha Pop! I had a friend who found out one of her friends was always copying her, so she would always say she liked the DUMBEST stuff, and the other girl would totally agree that it was amazing. AHHHH so funny. If it ever got to that point, I would totally do the same thing.
19I could NEVER deal with this.
20I would honestly do what popgoestheworld suggested. :]
21That way, it'd be easier to call her out!
Ugh. I've been there.. My closest friend in second year uni started copying my style.. One time I was in the bathroom brushing my teeth, and she came in wearing the exact same outfit! I had noticed before that she had started dressing like me, but I didn't say anything until our friends started noticing as well.. Not to mention, she began liking the exact same music as me, when before, all she listened to was Michelle Branch. Anything I remotely mentioned that I liked, she liked too.. It was like she copied and pasted my facebook profile on to hers. It was extremely annoying. People pride themselves on being somewhat unique, and it's irritating when someone just copies you on something that you've been developing yourself (i.e., taste in music, sense of style)...
22My first (random) roommate in college was exactly like this. She was very nice, very sweet, clean, and completely respectful of my space. Her copying started very small and worked itself up to where I couldn't take it anymore. She was so bland and had no personality of her own whatsoever. My good friend nicknamed her "Vanilla-face", in jest.
Needless to say, I moved out.
23My BFF does this sh*t to me. I can't stand it. But we've been friends for so long, I just deal the best I can. I approached her about it one time and you would have thought I accused her of robbing my house. First she was crying and then she was mad and yelling. I just dropped it and never brought it up again. But our friends say things about it.
My neighbor does it too. But at least I only really see her at home. And she does it because she just doesn't have a clue about getting dressed. I hadn't even noticed, until my Mom started pointing things out. She said every time she saw my neighbor she looked more and more like me. Then last week, she came over and she was like Oh, I bought your sneakers .........and she had on the same ring I had just bought from a jewelry demonstration she had a month before. And so it begins...
24i get this with every girl,even when they dont know me.:[ oh its hard to be in every girls envy.
25I am fuming about the situation with my best friend. I understand we have similar tastes, but to totally pirate my style is another thing. It seems everything I do she wants to copy. I am finding it rather annoying now as I do not copy her. I like and have my own style. A recent test proved this. I bought a hat from a place and showed my friend where I purchased the hat, if she had bought a hat from the same place in a different style thats one thing but the same hat in a different colour. I was not happy and increasingly I am becoming more unhappy. That is just one example.
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