When entitlement meets poor planning, someone always ends up painted as the villain.

So, what would you do if your in-laws moved in temporarily and demanded you change your guest room to suit them, even though you purposefully set it up this way? Would you change it to make them happy? Or would you make them do with the setup?

In the following story, one couple finds themselves dealing with this exact drama. Here’s what happened.

AITAH for having two twin beds in my guest room instead of a queen, and refusing to let my in-laws change the room

My husband and I (24f&m) have been married for 2 years. I am a social worker, and my husband is an electrician. We own a 3-bedroom, 2-bathroom home together. We have our bedroom, our home office, and a guest bedroom.

My state’s foster care system is one of the worst in the country. There aren’t anywhere close to enough foster homes to meet the total number of children in care.

As a result of this, children often get stuck at hospitals, psych facilities, group homes, etc. Oftentimes, we have children who have to sleep at the CPS facility in sleeping bags on the floor because there’s just nowhere for them to go.

She and her husband set up the spare bedroom to help children in need.

So, it’s very common for social workers to bring children home with them, myself included. It’s hard to find emergency placements for siblings, so if I can’t find a place for them for the night to keep them together, I will often just bring them home with me.

My husband and I are child-free, and he’s super supportive of this. So our guest bedroom has two twin beds, both with pull-out beds underneath. This means that I can give four children their own beds for the night.

Earlier this year, my husband’s brother and his wife were temporarily homeless. They lost their jobs and couldn’t renew their lease, so they had to scramble to find new jobs and a place to live. We let them stay with us for two months. I didn’t really want to, but it was the right thing to do.

The in-laws were mad and wanted to redecorate the room.

They were very upset about the two twin beds thing. Because of the way the bed frames are, you cannot push the beds together. And the room is a little small and oddly shaped, so you can’t fit a queen air mattress in the room without taking the twin beds out.

We don’t have a garage, so there would be no place to put the beds. They wanted me to get rid of them or put them in a storage unit so they could put a queen air mattress in the room.

I refused because I didn’t want to go through all that trouble when they shouldn’t be staying for long anyway. I worked hard to get the room to look welcoming to kids, and I don’t want to change it.

Now, they’re bad-mouthing them to the rest of the family.

I didn’t tell them this, but I also didn’t want them to get too comfortable with the room because I didn’t want them to be tempted to stay longer than necessary. I would rather house kids in unstable situations than my ungrateful in-laws.

My husband took my side and told them to get a hotel if they didn’t like it, but otherwise, they would have to shut up. He said that if they keep complaining, they’ll have to leave. He’s a good husband.

My in-laws have been telling everyone who will listen that we’re ******** who made them sleep in kid beds. My husband has been telling his whole family to back off, basically, and not to talk to us unless they have something nice to say.

AITA?

Wow! That actually takes a lot of nerve.

Let’s see how the people over at Reddit feel about what happened.

According to this person, a modified room would’ve made them stay longer.

As this comment points out, twin beds are better than a shelter.

Here’s someone who’s impressed with the husband.

When this reader was homeless, they were grateful for a place to stay.

Apparently, they have no manners at all.

Things could be worse.

The in-laws need to apologize and let it go so that next time they need help, they’ll have it.

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