When people live together, trust is often built through the little things, like how they treat each other’s stuff.

So when one renter’s treasured cooking dish was chipped and her roommates’ accountability vanished into thin air, their whole living agreement began to crumble.

Read on for the full story.

AITA for asking my roommates to help me replace something they broke.

I (F21) moved in with my roommates (F23 & F24) around three months ago and we share a lot of dinnerware.

She’s taken a liking to one dish in particular.

I have a small Le Creuset oven dish that my mother gave me when I first moved out.

It’s been used and loved but was perfect in every way—small, cute, and the right size for one portion of dinner that needs to go in the oven.

She warned her roommates of the dish’s significance ahead of time.

When we moved in together, I specifically told them that they could use my plates and stuff but to please be careful with my oven dish because I would be sad if it broke.

But that didn’t stop the inevitable.

Last week I came home and I found it chipped on the kitchen counter.

Both of my roommates deny breaking it, but it wasn’t me.

Her money is tight, so she feels like it’s only fair for her roommates to chip in to help replace it.

I would really like to buy it again since I love it so much, but financially I’m not in a place to spend 40+ euros on an oven dish.

WIBTA if I asked them to split the costs because they (or one of them) are the ones that broke it?

The dish may be chipped, but what really stung was the silence.

Let’s let Reddit weigh in.

It sounds like these roommates’ sharing era is over.

This user doesn’t find the current repayment proposition very fair.

On the other hand, this user thinks it’s only common decency.

Sharing may be the kind thing to do, but there are consequences.

When nobody owned up, even to something important to her, it became clear the oven dish wasn’t the only thing left damaged.

Some people simply can’t be trusted.

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