How to ask a roommate to pay their share
You live with the person you are asking, so the conversation does not end when it ends. Naming the amount and the date keeps it about the bills and not about them.
Tonecraft lets you rehearse it first. Describe what is happening, choose gentle, direct or firm, and walk through six turns. At each turn you see three ways they might answer.
A way to open
I need to talk about the bills. You owe your share of rent and utilities for the last two months, and I've been covering it. Can we agree on a date this week to settle it?
Three ways they might answer. Each is plausible, not a prediction of what they will say.
Hears you out
You're right, I've let it slide. I can pay half now and the rest on Friday.
Pushes back
You use more of the electricity than I do. It's not an even split.
Brushes it off
I'll get to it. It's not like you're short.
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