{"id":29504,"date":"2026-03-26T17:34:57","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T21:34:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/?p=29504"},"modified":"2026-03-27T17:04:26","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T21:04:26","slug":"how-can-i-convince-my-roommate-to-let-go-of-her","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2026\/03\/26\/how-can-i-convince-my-roommate-to-let-go-of-her\/","title":{"rendered":"How can I convince my roommate to let go of her?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/AW032626-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"289\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/AW032626-1.jpg\" alt=\"How can I convince my roommate to let go of her?\" class=\"wp-image-29502\"\/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">How can I convince my roommate to let go of her?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>One of the harder assignments as someone&#8217;s friend is watching them make a mistake and knowing that trying to talk them out of it is extremely unlikely to help. As long as they&#8217;re not hurting anyone, the thing to do is to sit with them and let them get to a place where they make that decision themself. Everybody grieves differently. A breakup is real grief. They may just not be on the same clock as you are about that. It&#8217;s all OK. But all sympathy from your friend, the Wall, on that situation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the harder assignments as someone&#8217;s friend is watching them make a mistake and knowing that trying to talk them out of it is extremely unlikely to help. As long as they&#8217;re not hurting anyone, the thing to do is to sit with them and let them get to a place where they make &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2026\/03\/26\/how-can-i-convince-my-roommate-to-let-go-of-her\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;How can I convince my roommate to let go of her?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29504"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29510,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29504\/revisions\/29510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}