Living with siblings means navigating shared spaces and competing schedules.

One household erupted into conflict when one sister needed the room quiet for a therapy call while the other needed to use the monitor for work. The ensuing disagreement created a family conflict that tested the limits of both their patience and their boundaries.

Read on for the full story!

AITA for refusing to let my sister kick me out of the room for a call with her therapist?

I (18F) and my sister (23F) share a workroom as well as a bedroom (it’s a weird layout, I know).

I was doing something that required the use of a monitor when my sister came to me, telling me to leave the room so she could call her therapist.

Soon they realized that free space in the house was currently in short supply.

I told her that she could use the bedroom, but she said that our mom was in our bedroom preparing things for our upcoming move.

When I went inside to check, I saw that my mom was just looking at her phone.

She suggested everyone simply swap spaces, but that didn’t cut it for her sister.

I told my sister that our mom could easily come into the workroom and do the exact same thing, but I needed the monitor to work.

My sister called our mom to mediate the conflict, and my mom told me to leave the workroom for my sister’s call.

She pleads her case further, and her mom tries to sweeten the deal for her sister.

I told her it makes more sense for her to come to the workroom and my sister to take the call in the bedroom, but my sister claimed that sitting on the bed makes her back/butt hurt.

So, our mom offered her fifty dollars to use the bedroom and let me stay in the workroom.

But she finds this totally unfair.

My sister jumped at the opportunity, and I got really mad that our mom would offer money for my sister to do something that seemed like the most reasonable course of action, and we started arguing.

Then dad got sucked into the argument.

Even our dad had to get involved, and he eventually told my sister to go to the bedroom and let me stay in the workroom. But she was upset enough that I decided to just suck it up.

Now everyone’s at each other’s throats.

My sister claimed that since I didn’t have a deadline for what I was doing, and my refusal to move was inconveniencing both her and our mom, I should have just moved without complaint.

AITA?

This disagreement showed how even the smallest disagreements can spiral.

What did Reddit think?

This user agree’s with the younger sister’s initial assessment of the situation.

Her older sister should have taken some accountability and simply found another room.

Did this situation even need to turn into such a dramatic conflict in the first place?

If the work was really that “urgent”, the younger sister probably wouldn’t have had time to start this whole argument.

The biggest issue here was this family’s complete inability to find common ground.

Let’s hope next time everyone can find a better way to compromise.

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