Finding the right balance sharing housing can be incredibly tricky.

One woman thought she had thought of a good idea to give everyone more space, but when her mother reacted poorly, it was clear she had struck a nerve she didn’t even know was there.

Read on for the full story.

AITA for asking my mom to takeover her home?

My mom owns a home with a guest house in the back.

My husband, two kids, and I live in the guest house.

It’s pretty small for all of us, but we have two bedrooms, a bathroom, a kitchen, and a small living room.

All the essentials.

We pay half the mortgage.

She explains her mother’s living situation, which is less than ideal.

The main property, where she stays by herself, is three bedrooms and one bathroom.

She does not have a bed, furniture, dressers, table—nothing really, just a very cheap couch she sleeps on.

She cooks on an electric skillet I bought her. There’s no kitchen whatsoever. Not certain why, but perhaps financial reasons?

So she decided to approach her mother with a proposition.

Anyway, my husband and I decided to ask her if we could switch homes so she would live in the guest house, and we would live in the main home.

We would pay three-quarters of the mortgage and pay for an entire kitchen for her property because we would want to benefit from it too.

I thought that would be a great idea, being that there are perks for her too.

The guest house is super nice, her main house would have a brand new kitchen, and we’d cover most of the mortgage.

But her mother didn’t see it as a good deal at all and pulled back.

Well, she seemed really upset and didn’t want to discuss it further.

Are we the jerks here? We thought we’d be doing us all a favor!

She was just trying to make things more comfortable for everyone — or so she thought.

Reddit was pretty divided on this one.

This commenter isn’t buying some of the details of this story.

Is their heart really in the right place with this one?

And is it a solid financial decision? This commenter doubts it.

Ultimately they need to accept whatever their mother decides.

Her intentions might have been good, but the way it landed made her look selfish in her mother’s eyes.

Sometimes helping out only manages to make things worse.

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