Date: September 2, 2007

Today, I believe that I shall discuss my roommate and her... boyfriend.
Now, my roommate is a sweet girl, one of my best friends actually. Kind, caring, and just a little too wrapped up in her boyfriend's life for my tastes.
Her boyfriend once dated a member of another sorority. Liked her enough that he fell in love with her.
Is still in love with her.
Now my roomie and her boyfriend are very happy together. Most of the time. He has this very annoying habit of sometimes telling her that he still loves his ex, hates her friends, hates her, hates her Sorority. And she puts up with it.
Now to me, this is a very telling statement to a person's character; how much bullshit they will put up with to have someone in their life.
Last semester, at a party, her boyfriend got so drunk that he had to be restrained by his brothers, then dragged off to his room where he proceeded to put his fist through a window. Later that night, he got into my face, yelling at me that I hated him and I was trying to turn his girlfriend against him. My date got between him and me so that I could walk away. It was an interesting night, punctuated by me telling my friend and roommate that he would have to apologize to me when we were both sober, no exceptions.
We got back to school about two weeks ago, and her boyfriend had no returned yet. So she spent the time with me, and our other two close friends, hanging out, playing around, getting ready for another semester of parties, school, and our Sorority life. As soon as the "dreaded" boyfriend hit town, she was gone, never home unless she had to be, always spending every free moment with him. Now he has a job, and she is forced to stay at home with us until he is off.
We have gotten a little tired of this game, her dear close friends and I. So we've done something about it, in a sense. Now, when she leaves to go to him, we call her a bit after she's gone and tell her our plans and invite her, already knowing that she'll say "no" to us. Or we let her ask us what we are up to and reply with a "I can't talk right now, I'm doing ____. I'll call you later".
Needless to say, after this weekend, she's been very quiet around us. Now I am sad about that on one hand, but on the other, please! She's never around and when she does ask us about what we've done, she wants the whole story, as if she had been there all along. We try not to use the "oh, I guess you had to be there" line, but sometimes.... hoo boy, do I wanna! But we try, as best we can, to keep her in the loop, to let her know what's going on, and to help her understand that by being with her boyfriend all the time, she misses out on us.

Tomorrow's post will be about the partying that went on this weekend. I just had to get this story out before continuing on with my life..