📝 WIBTA if I asked my roommate to put his desk in his room?

By spookylittleteacup • Score: 1 • April 25, 2025 7:50 PM


I have 2 new roommates, a woman and a man, and I live with my fiance, and soon another roommate in a few days. Its a 3 bedroom house with a shared living space.

My roommate (let's call him D) has his dean in the living room because his fiance (let's call her A) is studying to be a nurse. So in her own words, she needs the quiet space to focus. Which is fine.

But lately she's been hanging out in the living room with him to study but it makes it hard/impossible for the rest of us to use the living room to hang out then because she needs it to still he fairly quiet so she can focus.

Which doesn't feel very fair to the rest of us that want to use that space... however, me and my fiance usually stay to our bedroom but mostly for these reasons. We don't want to be loud or annoy anyone. But now it kinda feels like we're forced to be in our room.

Both of then are very nice so they aren't doing this to be rude, I know that for a fact. And I totally get she wants a chance of space to study and be around her fiance. I get that! 1000%

But it sucks when it's the cost of other people in the house not being allowed to be in a shared space because we might be "too loud" so she can't study.

I think "asshole" is kinda a harsh word for this since I don't think anyone is being one.. more "would I be rude if I asked them to go to their bedroom?" Since it is all our house, and I wanna respect that. But it feels like they're taking over the living room to the point me and my partner can't really use it.

But if I'm being rude by asking them to go back to their room I'll take that L also. I get it and I wanna be fair.

Hence why I'm asking here because if I asked my friends they will be 100% biased and say they roommates are the issue and shouldn't take up so much space in the living room.

I appreciate the feedback. Be gentle haha. But if I'm wrong then I'm wrong. Thank you!

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