<p>I'm going to be a sophomore this year and I'm living in an apartment just off campus with a male friend I met last year (I'm a girl). We have separate bedrooms and separate bathrooms. He's straight (which I know people question, myself included, but I also don't want to claim to know his sexuality better than him), but he always hangs out with girls, he's gossipy and cares about how he looks...basically, I view him no more sexually than I would a female friend.</p>
<p>Anyway, getting an apartment with him didn't seem weird to me until getting home for the summer and realizing how incredibly awkward it is to explain to my relatives that I'm living alone with a guy.</p>
<p>Obviously whether it's "weird" or not won't change anything, I'm just curious as to what others think.</p>
<p>Its normal.In the real world, in cities where housing is expensive, it is common to live opposite sex humans. Its only weird (wait for it…) if you make it weird. Get it?</p>
<p>Now, if others think it’s weird. Ask them why? Personally, I rather live with the opposite sex. (Although women can be as irresponsible/nasty as men). I feel the barriers can be set much easily and its nice to live with the opposite sex.</p>
<p>At this point, you’re an adult. It’ll be fine. Just get to know him and set rules. I’m sure he’ll want to live at ease with you. Cheers.</p>
<p>Last summer, before my senior year, I lived with a guy and two girls. None of our parents were up in arms about it, nothing untoward happened. And we shared a bathroom! The main problem was that he took crazy long showers… In all seriousness though, I loved living with them and we had a great summer.</p>
<p>Currently, I live in a large 2 bedroom/1 bathroom apartment with a guy. I’ve heard my mother say that she’s glad he has a girlfriend but that she’d like it better if her were gay. I don’t really care either way. People usually assume “she” and I have to correct to “he,” but otherwise it makes no difference to me.</p>
<p>It sounds like you’re OK with the idea, and that’s all that really matters in the end. I will say that there is a very high likelihood that he will want to take the roommate situation to the “next level” at some point, but if this is something you are indifferent about, then I don’t see a problem. If you are strictly looking for just a roommate, and don’t wish it to go further, then I don’t see this as a good idea…</p>
<p>Do you trust this guy? That’s the biggest question. Just like you have to be able to trust any roommate, but also with the extra factor of trusting him not to cross any boundaries.</p>
<p>I wouldn’t worry about it. Young people do it all the time these days. My son did it over the summer. I was surprised when I first heard his roommate was a girl, a girl he had never met, but it worked out just fine. No lines were crossed. Even the grandparents took the news in stride. </p>