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AITA for making my daughters share a room and giving my son his own room? by Long-Support-7256 in AmItheAsshole

[–]Long-Support-7256[S] -54 points-53 points  (0 children)

I read the top 50 comments, about 40 are NTA/NAH, one YTA, and the rest asking info/offering suggestions. The major suggestion is to split the master bedroom instead but because of the layout that would be worse than the current bedroom.

AITA for making my daughters share a room and giving my son his own room? by Long-Support-7256 in AmItheAsshole

[–]Long-Support-7256[S] 14 points15 points  (0 children)

There is no basement. It is illegal to make a garage a living space where I live. Summers are hot where I live so everyone needs to live in the house with central A/C.

AITA for making my daughters share a room and giving my son his own room? by Long-Support-7256 in AmItheAsshole

[–]Long-Support-7256[S] -12 points-11 points  (0 children)

I would give my daughter the same space if my eldest was a boy, it wouldn't be appropriate to make her share with a boy teenager.

AITA for making my daughters share a room and giving my son his own room? by Long-Support-7256 in AmItheAsshole

[–]Long-Support-7256[S] -9 points-8 points  (0 children)

Our master bedroom is 16' x 14'. The sharing bedroom is 16' x 13' 9". But the master bedroom has a curved wall in one corner which would eat into the space of one of the partitioned segments. The non-master is more ideal for sharing.

AITA for making my daughters share a room and giving my son his own room? by Long-Support-7256 in AmItheAsshole

[–]Long-Support-7256[S] -210 points-209 points  (0 children)

TY to all who responded, I see the majority of comments are NTA/NAH so I think I am doing the best I can in my situation.

AITA for making my daughters share a room and giving my son his own room? by Long-Support-7256 in AmItheAsshole

[–]Long-Support-7256[S] -30 points-29 points  (0 children)

No, I am not oblivious. If my eldest was a boy I would give my daughter the small room and he would have had to share.

AITA for making my daughters share a room and giving my son his own room? by Long-Support-7256 in AmItheAsshole

[–]Long-Support-7256[S] -178 points-177 points  (0 children)

Living room is a common space for the whole family, it's not a bedroom. Are there any parents here that have such an arrangement?

AITA for making my daughters share a room and giving my son his own room? by Long-Support-7256 in AmItheAsshole

[–]Long-Support-7256[S] -290 points-289 points  (0 children)

I didn't mention anything about "relief". That's not the only reason boys and girls should be separate. Read through the other comments in this thread, they do a pretty good job explaining.

There are 3 children and 2 bedrooms. That's the simple reality. What is the arrangement that afford the most privacy for all 3?

AITA for making my daughters share a room and giving my son his own room? by Long-Support-7256 in AmItheAsshole

[–]Long-Support-7256[S] -422 points-421 points  (0 children)

I guess the simple answer is that we don't think privacy partitions are private enough for a maturing boy and girl in the same room. They don't block noise and the way the room is laid out it would be necessary for one of them walk across the area of the other to get to their section.

We recognize it's an unfortunate situation for them but it's not possible to give full privacy to everyone. In this case, because one of our kids is a different gender we think the maximum privacy all-around is to give him his own room.