Couple overstays in brother’s apartment, demands privacy

When family members fall on hard times, it’s natural to want to help them out. But what happens when they overstay their welcome and demand privacy in your own home? That’s the situation one Redditor finds themselves in. The brother and his wife have been living with the poster for several months now, and tensions are high. The brother wants more space and privacy, but the poster is feeling like an intruder in their own living room. The situation reaches a boiling point when the sister-in-law creates a timetable dictating when the poster is allowed to use their own living room. The poster tries to talk it out, but the situation only gets worse, and the brother even goes so far as to install a lock on the living room door. Is the poster in the wrong for not giving their brother and his wife more privacy, or are they being taken advantage of?

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Couple overstays and demands privacy in brother’s apartment

A man has allowed his brother and his wife to stay with him after they lost their job and savings. However, the couple has now demanded privacy and expects the living room, which they have been occupying, to be exclusively theirs. They have even gone as far as making a timetable for the owner of the apartment to access the living room. This has caused tension between the family members, with the couple insisting on installing a lock to the living room door. The owner of the apartment has refused to allow the installation of the lock, leading to further conflict. The situation has become unbearable with the couple making the owner of the apartment feel unwelcome in his own home. Read on to find out if the owner of the apartment is in the wrong for not giving the couple their privacy or if the couple is being unreasonable.