I can’t be everyone’s friend. And that’s my problem; I try to be too nice. I don’t stand up for myself. Well, it’s okay to have people not like me. I need to be assertive and confident and I know I already am those things. I think what does me in the most is how fragile I perceive myself to be. In perceiving it, I am creating it..

Casey snipped at me today. “Do you always have to ask where I’m going?” And yeah, that was rude, but it’s not that big of a deal. I responded, I didn’t cower. And he probably knows it was rude. He tried to make some small talk after. 

Bottom line: nothing is that big of a deal. And yeah, you’ll have to live with him for a year or so, but guess what: this tiny little altercation has been the only negative thing after more than a month of living together. Do you see the bigger picture now? Everything is fine. Maybe retract from his life a little bit. You can do that.