There you have it. Your roommates are fighting and you feel like taking a side. But you can't take a side because your roommates are old friends and have a firmly established amicable relationship. If you take sides with one, the other will start scrutinizing your activity meticulously and use his or her research to defame you in the other's eyes. Since they already have a strong bond, they will then transfer the enmity engendered by their friendship's hiccup towards you and revitalize it accordingly. I wonder if marriage councillors use this technique as a strategy.