Five | Lydia
What if, while you're working to find a job and getting signed up for school (and in school if you've got that sorted before a job), we work to make it so you're doing your part by splitting things up around the apartment? We both clean up after ourselves, but if the communal spaces need straightening up, you could do it, and whoever makes meals, the other does the dishes. You could do shopping or errands during the week, and I can grab anything needed on the way home or do them on the weekends.
And I do realize that sounds like Cinderella or a live-in maid, but that's not how I mean it. I'm just trying to think of a way that has us both contributing, and it would shift as you adjust and settle and get into school and find a job. I wouldn't expect anything, and I'm more than capable of cleaning my own clothes and can and do clean up after myself. I'm just trying to brainstorm and think of things that'll help. And this is why I should be on my own. It's just