'Mum is forcing me to share my room with her kid brother - I've never met him'
A teenage girl has been praised for standing up to her parents after they tried to force her to share a bedroom with a boy. The 17-year-old explained how her mum's brother, Alex, 14, needed to move into their house because he didn't have anywhere else to go.
While she doesn't have a problem with him moving in, she couldn't hold her tongue when her parents suggested he sleep on a mattress on her bedroom floor because he's 'too scared' to sleep in the spare room in the basement. Taking to Reddit, she said: "My mum’s little brother Alex, 14, is moving in with us. I don’t really mind or care as there’s literally nowhere else for him to go right now but they want me to share a room with him.
"No one uses that room [the basement] so I assumed that’s where he’d be sleeping. But my mum said no because Alex is scared of the dark and that specific room has no light. I told her to buy him a lamp but she got mad and said he’s not sleeping in the basement.
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"I asked her why, he’s 14, not 4. She just said that I’m being very difficult and he’s just going to sleep in there so I need to get over it." But like any 17-year-old girl going through puberty, the last thing she needed was a young boy invading her private bedroom space.
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"I really don’t want to share a room with a 14-year-old boy, plus I have my boyfriend over a lot. I don’t even know him and we’ve never met before either,” she added.
But the night before Alex was due to arrive, the teenager got into a huge argument with her parents about the sleeping arrangements. It ended with her mum threatening to make her sleep in the basement while Alex took her bedroom for himself.
Sometime later both parents came to her room with a mattress, wanting to set it up on the floor. But she refused to let them in. She said: "My mum got really mad again and said I’m being extremely selfish. I told her I didn’t care," she said.
When Alex arrived, she did the same thing. She said: "My mum isn’t talking to me anymore. Dad said he’s really disappointed in me as well but I think he’s just mad because they had to put the mattress in their room and that’s where Alex slept.
“I refuse to budge on this though I do feel a little bad. Still, he can totally sleep in the basement, they’re making it difficult for themselves. Am I the a** h***?” she asked Reddit. Every user sided with her and pointed out how strange it was to force a teen girl to share her room with a boy. One said: “Your parents are very strange to insist on housing a 14-year-old boy with a 17-year-old girl. How are either of you going to be comfortable in that setup?”
Another agreed and was concerned for her safety: “And that’s her uncle at that! I’d be weirded out by that too! I mean… I’ve been a teenager and I know how boys can be! And she doesn’t even know him. That’s not a big ask to make sure that she still feels safe!”
One more said: “I wouldn't want a 14-year-old boy watching me change, looking at my braless boobs, watching me deal with any female issues that come up. Y'all's age needs privacy. 17-year-old me would've yelled about how I don't want a pervy teenage boy going through puberty watching me sleep, change, or access to my belongings.”
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