Rivka Wolf
2 min readAug 7, 2022

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So the thing is, they basically argued that I made them feel unsafe. And my texts to them are written, whereas the things they did to me were not done in front of anyone else. So they could say it didn’t happen and probably will.
But it was a whole list of things.
Another housemate asked me to basically describe how my experience of being a victim of child abuse impacted my dating life, to give her advice about dating someone who was a survivor, then the next day said she felt we were too close and wanted less emotional intimacy, which was bizarre and shitty.
A second subletter moved in when I did and emotionally abused me several times, which another housemate witnessed and apologized to me for and said she’d intervene about and never did. Finally I stood up for my own boundaries and the other subletter moved out and blamed me. The other housemates blamed me for losing her rent rather than acknowledge her behavior was fucked yo and they never communicated to her that it was a group living situation.
I was the only disabled person and housemates constantly looked freaked out or avoided me because I talked about being immunocompromised or having symptoms of disability. Even in the most basic terms.
They kicked me out saying that I had “caused harm” to the house even though at that point I was the only one who did the dishes or took out the compost, I was immunocompromised in a pandemic, and they gave me 48 hrs to move out.
Which is illegal and terrible.
And like..bizarre. Right?
I feel really definitively Shamed, there’s definitively a Jewish cultural shaming of bringing a man over and having loud sex thing, or communicating to this housemate that I wanted him sexually but I have standards and emotions and boundaries too…..Jewish women are not supposed to do this type of thing.

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Rivka Wolf
Rivka Wolf

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