Dear Prudence,
I have a car. My girlfriend doesn’t. Usually, I am fine about driving her places to take care of errands, but her two new roommates are driving me nuts. They just invite themselves along whenever we go out and make demands to stop at other shops because they happen to be along the way. What should be a short trip to the grocery store turns into a two or three-hour-long affair because they can find item A at this store so we have to try another one. Or they forgot item B and needed to go back. They never offer to pay for gas or get a meal unless I have to prompt them. It is like pulling teeth.
My girlfriend had a bad fallout with some of her friends and has been lonely. She really likes the company of her roommates and bends over backward for them. We keep fighting about it. I finally snapped when they invited themselves to a fair that I was taking my girlfriend to on a date. They proceed to ditch us and refuse to answer their phones when it comes time to leave. We couldn’t find them. I had an early morning because of work. My girlfriend refused to leave without them so I gave up and said she could stay with me or wait and get an Uber. She chose Uber. I later apologized but we still fight all the time about it. I love my girlfriend but I feel like I am at a breaking point. Help!
—Not a Taxi