23-year-old pays most of the bills in apartment she shares with her mom, puts her foot down when she protests about her boyfriend staying

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• The difficulty comes when people have different ideas of what is an acceptable way to behave in a shared living space, and this can be particularly difficult when living with family. It can add an extra layer of entitlement over what is right and wrong when it comes to being roommates. This is a dynamic that is not uncommon when parents and adult children live under the same roof, whether the parents feel like their kids are not doing enough to pull their weight, or that they do not have the authority and maturity to be acting in the ways that they do.

  Needless to say, this can be painful to deal with from the child's perspective. When they are just finding their feet with adult life, and it feels like the most influential adults in their lives are not supporting them, disagreements can occur.

• Is my mom being unreasonable?

  

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• One young woman was increasingly frustrated by cohabiting with her mom after her dad moved out and requested a divorce. She agreed to stay with her in her apartment, as she could not afford all the expenses for it alone.

  However, her mom was not happy about the fact that she occasionally wanted her boyfriend to stay over. The daughter pointed out that she would not be able to afford to live there if she moved out, causing her mom to be upset. She wasn't sure if she had taken the argument too far.

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