Of House Guests and Fish

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I have to start off by saying that I feel incredibly bad about writing this, as it is about my best friend in the whole wide world who I wouldn't give up for anything forever and always. But here is my dilemma:

My best friend - who I am extremely lucky to have, by the way, as I went many a years without having anything resembling a real friendship and I was lonely, and I would always long for a best friend....oh you get the point, I apologize - anyway, my best friend has been staying with me for quite some time now. I won't go into details as to why, but she needed a place to stay, away from familial problems that I could only relate too much to, and I provided her my bedroom floor.

As you all know, we all need our own personal spaces. My personal space is my bedroom. I do not have a personal space anymore. I am sharing my personal space with someone else. She tries to be neat...but...some people just don't know how to be neat. She is one of those people. It is driving me insane.

My OCD cannot handle her carelessness for neatness, and I don't know what to do. She knows very well that I like things neat and orderly, but she kind of doesn't get it. And she comes with wires...so many wires. I'm always tripping over her phone charger or laptop charger or her audio gear which has....you guessed it WIRES! And I hate wires. Wires give me extreme anxiety, and I LASH OUT

Also, she is always on the phone, and she's a nervous wreck, and that energy gets trapped inside my space and rubs off on me, so then I'M THE NERVOUS WRECK. I love her to death. But I need my space!! And it's too cold outside to make outside my space, otherwise I would.

I'm trying to keep calm. I'm trying to stay cool. But she doesn't have any plans to move out, or find a job, and pretty much I am just venting. Thank you for listening, Shabbat shalom.

I'm very unconfrontational, so I probably wouldn't take this advise myself, but I would confront/talk to her about each issue. Remember that even though you're grateful for her being her friend, you went out of your way to let her stay with you, but that doesn't mean she can treat your room like her own. She should be more considerate, but you ease into making her aware of these grievances. Maybe suggest that she takes the phone calls outside so the negative energy doesn't get trapped in your room.