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AIBU or is my friend a CF

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NameChangeToAvoidBeingFound · 24/10/2018 21:23

I live in a house share and my friend has an associate coming to stay at the weekend. Someone she agreed to let stay knowing we don't have a spare room. The associate is to stay in her room, which is all good. She's free to have whoever she wants to stay. However she has decided that she's going to share my bed/room with me this weekend or because she knows I'm thinking of going away at the weekend she wants to use my room and let her guest have hers.

She never asked me any of this but assumed that it would be ok with me and basically came in and TOLD me that she'd either be sleeping with me and sharing my room or she'd be using my room herself while I'm away. If she'd of asked I'd either have considered it or been comfortable telling her no. Because I have ASD, OCD, ODD, PDA and Anxiety, my room is my safe space, my bubble of security where nothing is moved or changed without my say so. It's where I go to escape from the world.

If I invite a guest depending on my relationship with the guest I'd either sleep with them, on the floor in my room, the sofa or the floor in a friends room. And I'd not invite them before checking that my other housemates were ok with that. I would never presume that I could dictate where I was sleeping.

She made brief mention of sleeping on the couch but then said that obviously she's not going to do that because she can share with me, as the couch isn't as comfortable as a bed and it means she'd have to stay up later because she likes to be in bed and asleep by eleven and our housemates/friends obviously don't especially on a weekend and then be up early because of the poor blinds/curtain situation plus housemates that are early risers coming into the lounge. And I can't see why she thought sharing with me would be much better. I have RLS so my legs twitch and jerk all night. I sleep four four/five hours a night max which is why I have the room furthest from everyone else's so I don't disturb anyone when I'm up past four and awake before eight.

I don't want her in my room if I'm here or not and I especially don't want to leave her my room keys while I'm not here. But she is emotionally immature and I can't tell her this without her crying or going into a strop which is going to damage our friendship which in all other respects is great. She is usually a great friend if occasionally thoughtless like this. She's 19 so it's to be expected sometimes I suppose. But because she's not given me a choice I feel backed into a corner and I'm not happy. But I have to live with her at least another year so I need to keep the peace as much as possible.

It's the assuming and telling me what is happening that has annoyed me more than anything especially as I don't see why I should be inconvenienced and stressed because she's decided to invite a guest based on an incorrect assumption that I'd not expect any rational person to have.

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IamtheDevilsAvocado · 26/10/2018 10:25

She sounds madly immature....

She isn't treating you with any respect.... It's almost as if she's treating you as a parent with some responsibility to sort out her fuck ups....

You've taught her a life lesson... She'll try to ignore it, and get you to breach your boundaries... Cos hey it's easier for her if you just let her trample all over you...

You ASK first.... I probabably won't say yes...

IamtheDevilsAvocado · 26/10/2018 10:28

PS.... I'm a generation older than you and NT.

I don't share a bed/room with anyone other than my partner... I don't sleep well and I dint want responsibility of waking them... Also I have loads of personal stuff I don't want anyone seeing /raking through...

My room is designed with it being MY room not to be slept in /used by others

IamtheDevilsAvocado · 26/10/2018 10:28

You really aren't unusual....

FaithInfinity · 26/10/2018 10:43

Well done namechange! I don’t think many people like sharing their personal space. I have ASD. I got back from my summer break to find that my housemate (who had stayed their over the summer) had slept in everyone else’s rooms while we were away. She’d also left a trail of mess behind her. It felt like an invasion of privacy and I was very uncomfortable about it.

I think there’s a couple of issues - the fact that she’s just assumed it’s fine and not asked you, also how she’s behaved having been told no. You say she’s been bullied in the past - did you actually witness this? Or is this what she’s told you? I wonder if she plays the victim sometimes? Well done for standing your ground and not being pushed into doing something you didn’t want to do.

NameChangeToAvoidBeingFound · 26/10/2018 11:11

No I saw the bullying in our previous houseshare last year, I put an end to it too. The other we were living with went out of their way to make her life miserable and she genuinely did nothing wrong. I know she has self esteem issues and she’ll tell you herself she has issues with jealousy. She’s constantly learning and trying to do better but combined with the fact her parents were/are hardly around now or when she was a child they let her do what she wants/dictate what happens in the house out of guilt and because that’s what she’s used to she doesn’t see how it’s wrong, but she’s learning and trying to be better because she can be one of the most genuine and loving people there is. But she’s 19 and immature, and she’ll learn. Which is why I’m not taking it as a personal slight against myself, she’s proven she can and will change when her behaviour is unacceptable and not many people are willing to do that and rather than falling out with her I’m going to support her, because that’s what will help her change.

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twoshedsjackson · 26/10/2018 12:27

I am impressed by your compassion and generosity of spirit!

RedLife · 26/10/2018 12:51

NameChangeToAvoidBeingFound

You're a very kind and patient person Flowers

AsleepAllDay · 26/10/2018 12:56

No. It's as simple as that

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