Living with strangers can be liberating, but it can also be a super weird experience.

That’s because everyone has their own views, their own habits, all those little idiosyncrasies that make them them.

That’s exactly what the woman in this story found out when her older roommate confronted her about something that she’d never realised was an issue.

Read on to decide if it was.

Am I overreacting by telling my roommate she’s making a big deal out of nothing?

I am a 23-year-old woman, and I rent a room in a condo with “L” (40, female) and “R” (48, male).

Somtimes I walk around the condo without a bra on – I do wear a shirt and pants of course.

My boobs are definitely not very small, but like, I live here too and I feel like I deserve to be comfortable.

If there are guests over I do put on a bra if I’m going to be outside of my room.

Let’s see how this became an issue.

L moved in a couple months ago, and yesterday she said to me, “Its really weird and inappropriate that you walk around with no bra on. Especially because there’s a man living here.”

I replied, “to be honest, I don’t think he’s ever noticed that I don’t wear one sometimes. Why do you find it weird?”

She told me, “Because men should never see a woman without a bra on unless they’re dating.”

I said, “that’s certainly a sentence I haven’t heard before. I think you’re making a mountain out of a molehill.”

Yikes! Read on to find out how this proceeded.

L continued to ramble about modesty or whatever – I don’t know, I tuned it out.

Then I said, “Okay, I’m going to my room now”

I feel like this isn’t a big deal. But I don’t know.

Am I overreacting?

If anyone’s overreacting, it’s the roommate.

As the woman says, it’s her home too and she deserves to be comfortable – and few women want to wear a bra all the time, especially when they’re relaxing at home.

Her body is just a human body, and it’s not like she’s exposing it to strangers. She’s wearing a shirt!

Let’s see what folks on Reddit made of this.

This person agreed she was doing nothing wrong.

While others encouraged her to ignore her ‘advice’.

Meanwhile, this Redditor suspected that the woman might be feeling insecure.

Whatever her motive for having this conversation, it wasn’t appropriate.

This woman is paying rent to live in the condo, and deserves to be able to wear what she wants, not be forced into a bra if she doesn’t wear one.

After all, she has a right to be comfortable too.

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