LONG POST.

This is my first post and I’m just wondering if someone could offer some advice as to what I should do!

So, myself and my boyfriend moved to Australia from Ireland and we have been here 4 months now! We stared off in a hostel and met some great people. We then moved off to a new state. One of the girls we met was living in the same state as us so we decided to let her move into our 2 bed apartment. We pay the majority of the rent as we are a couple and we also pay the bills (cable and WiFi). Her rent ;($200 per week)covers her for a double bedroom and we also provide all cleaning products for the place and the basic staples as in bread, milk, tea bags, coffee. We pay $400 a week for the same.

I’ve had no issue with this and built a fairly good friendship with her. I said in the beginning that whatever was in the fridge we should share thinking that she would also contribute to the household but she completely disregards it and just takes all our stuff and NEVER puts back in!

This morning I figured out she has used all my shampoo and she’s taking my boyfriends work socks?!? I mean really??

When she had no job we paid for her food and let her slack on the rent and pay double the following week, I also bought her cigarettes and made sure she had money to get herself to and from work.

She’s literally not bought a single thing. She waits until myself and my boyfriend come home from work to cook dinner and makes sure that I leave her enough for her lunch the following day.. but yet pays for none of it??

Between ourselves we decided that the only way to get her to cough up for cash would to be for us each to put $50 in per week and do one big food shop on a Sunday and that way everything in the house would be equal - she literally complains so much about this it’s actually ridiculous. She decides as soon as we’re going shopping that she’s tired and doesn’t want to go and goes into bed at random times during the afternoon and I feel like that’s just to get out of paying.

This all has me so upset because I was just trying to be a nice person and help her out and it seems like she’s taken advantage a little. Problem is that neither me or my boyfriend are confrontational so we just say nothing and let it go but it’s really getting to me now and if I even hint that anything is wrong she just throws a tantrum and goes to sulk in her room.

Does anyone have any tips on how to handle this or any tips on what we should do as I’m really at my wits end 😓 am I overreacting?? 😭