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To think someone's bedroom is private?

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HamishBamish · 17/07/2015 18:41

AIBU to think that your own bedroom is a private space and as an adult your parents should respect that?

My mother is staying right now and to put it mildly, she's extremely hard work. My bedroom is private to DH and I don't expect to find her in there 'tidying' or whatever else she says she's doing. I would never go into someone else's bedroom unless expressly invited. Just because she's my mother, doesn't give her the right to do what she wants. She drove my SIL crazy doing the same thing when she stayed there. She also knocks and then walks straight into rooms and sees nothing wrong with doing so.

So, I have asked her not to go in there (nicely!) and she's gone off in a huge huff, muttering something about 'if you can't go into your own daughter's bedroom etc'.

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Wrcgirl · 17/07/2015 20:56

yanbu I hated it as a teen with changing body when my dad would barge in on me in my bedroom whether I was clothed or not! Bedrooms of teens up you knock before you go and and wait for a reply!
Also gives responsibility to teens as they then have to clean their room :)
We have a lock for our bedroom door as we live in a bungalow and I do not want nosy visitors going in 'by mistake'.
Unless you are shown a room you don't peek into it is what I was taught was manners.

PuppyMonkey · 17/07/2015 21:11

Whois you're happy for people to wander in and out? Grin

What like anybody? A passing salesman? The local tramp?

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