Comment on Discussion Thread đ Monday 14 September 2026
Alamutjones@aussie.zone â¨2⊠â¨weeks⊠agoThey have a guest room which I use.
My understanding of what I was providing them came largely from what they provide me - the guest room they set up has their art on the walls and a few useful items (a small ladder etc) in the wardrobe, which is about the level of use I imagined.
I imagined some bookshelves and a chair in one corner so I could sit in there and read. Thatâs all.
I didnât want to LIVE in it. Iâd have a perfectly good bedroom and bathroom of my own. I just want to be able to put some of my more neutral belongings in it, so the space isnât completely useless to me when theyâre not present to use it.
Apparently that was not the agreement. I was explicitly told âitâs not a guest room. We donât want your art or your books in our spaceâ
âŚwhich is quite different to what I understood the situation to be.
Thornburywitch@aussie.zone â¨2⊠â¨weeks⊠ago
If they want a space thatâs theirs and theirs alone, they should be purchasing that - and not expecting you to be part of that arrangement. Are they going to share âtheirâ space with your sister and her kids??? Because if so, then they are lying to themselves about the space being their space only. And the cleanliness argument falls apart when kids are involved - trust me on this.
If they only need a dedicated space occasionally, then this is what specialist medical AirBNB is for. Sort of Ronald McDonald House, but the adult version. Yes, this is available.