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Well, friends, after denying it on their podcast for the last ten months, Amy Robach and T.J. Holmes have finally moved in together. In the past, they’ve spoken about how they’re not sure if they’ll get married and despite T.J.’s separation anxiety, they weren’t quite ready to move in together yet. They need to resolve some things, like the appropriate place to watch TV at 2:00 a.m. However, fate and circumstance has forced them to give cohabitation a try after Amy’s older daughter, Ava, 21, needed to quickly and unexpectedly move out of her apartment after a cockroach infestation. After Amy suddenly found herself with a full apartment, she decided to move in with T.J. full-time.

“Robach and I have been living together full time as of two weeks ago,” T.J. said on the Sept. 30 episode. “It was not by choice.”

The 47-year-old went on to credit the newfound living arrangement with Amy’s daughter, Ava, 21, whom she shares with her ex-husband Tim McIntosh. The New York-based couple have apartments within walking distance to one another, but Amy, 51, has recently moved into T.J.’s home full-time.

“Ava has an apartment in the Village,” Amy explained of her daughter. “It has a massive roach infestation.”

Sharing that her daughter has a “hoarder” living in the apartment next to her, Amy noted that Ava has come home to find roaches all over her apartment, including in her sheets. As T.J. explained it, “Armies of roaches making their way from his apartment to hers.”

And when Ava saw roaches coming in through her air conditioning unit, she decided she had to vacate the property.

“They are getting a new apartment in this building away from this man, this hoarder, but in the meantime, I’ve got people all in my apartment living with me,” Amy explained. “So I’ve just said, ‘Hey, y’all, knock yourselves out. I’ll be at T.J.’s.’”

Amy, who is also mom to daughter Annalise,18, shared that Ava is supposed to be moving out of her apartment this weekend.

“This is what you do for your kids. I know you’re excited to be able to help them out,” T.J. said of his girlfriend. “I’ve enjoyed the time we’ve had together. It’s been a little different, but I’ve liked it.”

Amy agreed, saying, “It’s been great.”

However, there’s one living condition that the couple can’t seem to agree on.

“It’s too damn cold at night,” T.J. insisted. “That’s an issue.”

Amy noted, “That’s always been our issue. I like things cooler, you like things warmer.”

[From Yahoo News]

It was really nice of Amy to let Ava and her roommates stay at her place. I would have noped out of there and burned the whole apartment down the second I saw those roaches in my sheets, let alone coming out of the air conditioning vent. That’s so gross. I’m not sure I’d even want to stay in the same building to be honest. I wonder if Amy will move back into her apartment after Ava leaves. Or at the very least, hold onto it so that her younger daughter, Annalise, 18, has a home base to go back to when she’s home from the University of Colorado Boulder. At the very least, I’m sure T.J. and Amy will get a good two-to-seven months of podcast content out of their cohabitation experiences.

As for their disagreement about the temperature, I think it’s funny that Amy’s the one who runs hot and T.J. is the one who likes to keep the thermostat higher. My mom and I both like it warmer and my husband and dad both like it cooler. Although with the Nest app, it makes it so much easier to adjust the temperature without instant detection. I can’t tell you the amount of times I’ve heard, “Put on a sweater!” over the course of my lifetime, lol.