Ended up with pisces housemate after row with Virg

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Hi there. Some of you may recall I posted a few weeks back seeking advice on how I should handle the relationship between me and a virgo I was very much into. The first few weeks went fine, just plain sailing and romance. However when the logistics of establishing a routine came up we started to clash. His job involves travelling around to different fairs and exhibitions around the country where he sells jewellery and other things at stalls. My job is of a more mundane regular office hours type thing. He also drinks every night and sees no problem with this as did I until I was getting up the next day feeling hung over and having to getting a train from his place across town to make it for work that morning while he slept on to rise at his leisure. About half of the nights I spent with him he ended up conking out on the sofa with an empty can of beer or glass of wine clasped in his hand. I would call him at work (after 12pm as he requested) and he would proceed to speak mainly about himself, how his day is going, what he needs to do regarding his job. I noted all this internally and said nothing, just mulling it over in my mind where a slow resentment started to grow.

On disucssing it and having a rantabout it with my friends about it, I came to see that he has a dependence on drink and this needs to stop if a relationship can continue. We had a bust up a few weeks back arising from a party I had during which we all got pretty drunk and where he did his usual of falling asleep fully clothes on my bed and then got up for work the next morning to go to set up his stall and left me to clean up the mound of cans and bottles and dirty plates that had been left the night before. After this row he closed up and retreated into his shell where we evetually resolved it after I apologised for losing my temper with him. He said that he doesn't "do" rows and doesn't like to be shouted at. He partially acknowledged theat his drinking behaviour was not on.

So things went ok for a bit longer until last sunday I stayed over at his place after helping him at his stall on sunday and heading back to his place where I calmly said that I had a few problems that I needed to discuss with him. I told him calmly what was on my mind and we had a civilised talk about it. Things I mentioned were the drinking pattern at night and the way he falls asleep on his sofa insetad of in bed with me after I have chosen to stay at his place where it causes me some inconvenience to travel across the city by crowded train to get to work the next morning and that this is also quite a depressing site to wake up to. He said that yes he wanted to be with me and that instead of bottling up my feelings that I should be frank with him whenever I have a problem, and that he had been trying to make an effort regarding what I had said arising out of the last bust-up which is true. Also moneywise, he was excessively thrifty which would mean opting for a chicken instead of port, for example because it was that bit cheaper. My argument was if his job takes up that much of his day and his thinking then surely it should pay him accordingly so that he doesn't have to deprive himself on food to save money!

Anyway that evening we didn't cook because what I had said had caused him to lose his appetite, we made whoopy (!) and then he told me he was hungry so he was going to make a sandwich. I fell asleep sometime after this as it was 1am and I had work that morning. I woke up at 3:30am because the light and the TV were on and I went down to find him asleep again on his sofa with an empty glass of wine in his hand. I had to shout at him to wake him up and I lost it with him and said he had f***ing well done it again! I commanded him to get up to bed where he did so as if in slow motion. He got up to bed, he got in, and then proceeded to doze off while I lay there thinking this was totally sh1t. I realised I would be better off just getting a taxi back then ins