Living with family can be complicated even when they live in the apartment next door.

What would you do if your sister suggested switching apartments with you because hers felt too cramped? Would you agree, or would you not want to deal with the hassle of moving?

The woman in today’s story is in this situation, and she’s not sure what to do.

AITA for not “swapping apartments” with my sister?

I (24F) live in a 2 family home that I share with my immediate family.

My sister and her girlfriend (both 26F) live upstairs (3bed, 1bath) with our dad, while I share the downstairs (2bed, 1bath) with our mom.

Recently, my sister moved her friend A (26ishF) into the guest room upstairs along with her cat after A escaped a bad relationship.

She has the downstairs to herself right now.

Our mother has been in Arizona tending to her very elderly father for about 6 months now, so I live alone downstairs.

Mom is a bit of a hoarder and while she’s in AZ I’ve been slowly clearing out the apartment to make it functional again.

I’ve spent many hours and a fair bit of my own money to accomplish this.

Her sister had a suggestion.

Due to A and her cat moving in, upstairs now has 4 people and 4 animals (3 cats belong to A and my sister, and dad’s dog).

This past weekend my sister approached me about swapping apartments for an undetermined amount of time, which I (stupidly and a little bit stunned) agreed to initially.

I eventually retracted my agreement and decided I didn’t want to swap. There would be a lot of moving around and and my sister’s girlfriend (N) and mom don’t get along due to mom’s generally bad parenting in my sister and i’s childhood and N being kind of awful.

She’s not going to switch apartments.

After some snarky back and forth between my sister and I typical of our not great relationship, I pointed out it was a bit unfair that my sister moved in two of the people and three of the animals and is now complaining it’s cramped and trying to move into mom and I’s apartment despite all the work I’ve put in.

My sister is still kind of mad at me, and I feel a little bad because it probably is feeling kind of cramped.

Now I’m wondering if me refusing to move is worth the conflict. AITA?

Her sister shouldn’t have asked. It may be cramped in the sister’s apartment, but that’s because she let her friend move in.

Let’s see how Reddit reacted to this story.

Her sister is the reason the apartment feels cramped.

The living situation is a bit confusing.

She definitely shouldn’t switch apartments.

Her sister’s request is ridiculous!

There’s no way she should switch apartments!

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