So, unbeknownst to me, my roommate's two best friends and her ex-husband showed up with dinner and asked my roommate to sit down with them in her kitchen. They did an "intervention" (this is going for 5 years already) where they asked her to listen to them. They suggested she go on medication, and go to outpatient treatment. She hasn't said anything.
I did use this moment to ask my roommate, in front of them, if she'd consider letting me stay until May 1st. I repeated that I would continue to pay her rent, care for her cat, do the housework, etc.,. and I hope it's too my advantage that I asked her this in front of her ex-husband and her two best friends.
One point they made to her tonight, which I thought was good, is that they told her, "We can't keep going on like this anymore. You need to participate in your own self-care and be willing to try what we suggest."
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