I know many people would probably think this is petty and they are probably right.
I live at home with my mum and a brother. Me and my brother are both adults but the cist of renting is steep and there's not much available in rental accommodation in the locality. I help at home.
The house consists of 4 bedrooms and kitchen, sitting room and bathroom.
My mum is usually always in the kitchen. She has a TV there and she's happy in the kitchen.
I work hard all year and I don't usually have time to sit down in front of the TV and watch things. The sitting room doesn't really get used that often.
My brother bought his own TV for his room about 6 years ago. It was an enormous TV and he was happy in his room for years. My mum found that change difficult because he spent so much time in his room. A lot of it was coming down from hangovers with his mates and I think sometimes even drug crashes. There was a time I thought he was taking drugs.
I work hard all year and I don't usually go into the sitting room. When I am working during the week I just don't have time for the TV and I find I am busy at weekends catching up with chores and laundry. About 3 weeks ago I decided to clean the sitting room for the upcoming Christmas.
I don't usually watch TV from one end of the year til the next except for at Christmas time. I love Christmas because its a few days off from the rat race that is work. It's where I can get in some nice food and drinks and sit down to a few movies. I do this once a year at Christmas time. It's just a few days to relax.
2 weeks ago my brother decided to emerge from his room and started to use the sitting room. This is a huge surprise. It's been years since he used the sitting room. He forgot how to use the TV in the room so he pushed it aside and he brought down his TV from his room and set up camp in the sitting room. He's been hogging the sitting room for the past two weeks. He doesn't work because that was his choice. He lives on the unemployed payment. He get sup and he goes into the sitti g room and plays PlayStation. He even going as far as drinking cans over night, most nights. Rinse and repeat. He went out with his mates last night and he's currently in the sitting room crashed out on the couch.
This is completely unfair how he's hogging up the whole entire room and TV. I mentioned it to my mum that it's not fair how's he's hogging up the whole entire room and he will probably be there for the upcoming Christmas and she doesn't care about me or my feelings. She's just more than happy that her boy has decided to crawl out from his room and spend more time in one of the family rooms. She has an unhealthy attachment to my brother because he's male. She charges me half of all the bills even though there 3 people in the house and she allows him to go free because he's male and because he decided he doesn't want to work. Then she turns around and does this while using me every for going shopping for her. I feel she doesn't appreciate anything that I do because I am female. I feel if I was a male she would value me more. If I behaved the way my brother does,m - not working and hogging the room and getting drunk at home, she would chuck me out onto the street and I know it but she allows that behaviour from my brother because he's male.
She would probably be delighted with a holiday to the middle east to get some tips from the taliban from to degrade her own daughter.