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As a matter of fact, dealing with you roommates can be a big challenge for you especially if you are living somewhere outside your home in a hostel or sort of common room of a living area. This could be challenging for you if you don’t like a lot of public interaction and like to have your privacy maintained at all levels and at every time. In most of the cases, the biggest conflict arises when you have different timings of taking sleep. For example, you may like to watch movies in the early part of the night and your roommate may be interested in taking a sleep at that time. Or it may be like you are fond of studying some sort of book in the afternoon but your roommate likes to listen to rock music in this time.

But how can one tackle this problem? In the point of fact, the biggest and probably the most effective piece of advice would be to create an atmosphere of understanding from the very first day. Your roommate may be a disturbing element for you, but you can tackle him or her by inviting him to a cup of tea, talk to him about your limitations and problems and ask him very politely to make at least some adjustments in his activities and schedules so as to make things go smoothly and calmly.

Another good option you can make use of to handle a disturbing roommate is to get hold of some of his or her weak point. For example, you have a roommate who likes to listen to the music at the top of the sound. And of course, this is something that disturbs you. But you also realize that he doesn’t like to get up early in the morning. So, all you need to do is to get up early in the morning, turn the room lights on and start reading a book. When he’ll ask you to abandon this practice, there would be a clear reply from your side asking him to give up the routine of listening to the music in a loud sound. This may appear a little offensive, but it would make your roommate feel the need of understanding your problem.