April 8, 2025 at 12:15 pm

His Female Roommate Is Having Friends Sleep Over On Her Birthday, But Doesn’t Think It’s Fair When She Asks Him To Sleep Somewhere Else

by Jayne Elliott

5 happy women wearing white sit on a bed with balloons

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Celebrating a friend’s birthday can be fun, but how would you feel if your roommate didn’t invite you to their birthday party that was at your own home?

Imagine not only not being invited but actually being told to go somewhere else!

Again, this is your home we’re talking about!

In today’s story, that’s the situation one man finds himself in, and he’s not okay with it.

Let’s see why his roommate doesn’t want him to stay for the party.

WIBTA for refusing to vacate the house when my roommate has her friends over?

I (21M) am in college and live in a shared house with two straight couples, totaling three men and two women including me.

We’re all around college age.

One of my roommates (19F) is planning to host her 20th birthday party soon and invite around 20 people; I really have no problem with this, and some of my other roommates have also hosted parties in the past and we’ve had a good time overall.

This time, he isn’t invited.

However, this time she says that she’s planning to have some of her friends sleep over and that “a couple of them are not comfortable with sleeping in the same house with men they don’t know.”

She wants me and my friend (the other man in the house) to vacate for the night and sleep somewhere else, presumably letting her boyfriend stay.

This is over spring break, so she says that we should just go home or stay with friends for the night.

He thinks she is being unreasonable.

The house is quite big, and our bedrooms are both on the opposite side of the house from hers, though I don’t know if she’s planning to have her friends sleep in her room or not.

I don’t want to cause undue conflict but I feel like this is a pretty unreasonable request, WIBTA if I said no?

It seems pretty rude to kick your roommates out of their own house for your birthday party.

Let’s see what Reddit thought of this story.

This person calls the roommate’s request “insane.”

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Another person might consider the request on a few conditions.

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Yes, this is what he should tell his roommate.

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It’s true; she can’t force her roommates to leave.

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This is a good point.

Screenshot 2025 03 17 at 9.31.56 AM His Female Roommate Is Having Friends Sleep Over On Her Birthday, But Doesnt Think Its Fair When She Asks Him To Sleep Somewhere Else

I was wondering the same thing.

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She shouldn’t have even asked.

Faux pas.

If you liked that post, check out this story about a guy who was forced to sleep on the couch at his wife’s family’s house, so he went to a hotel instead.