Couple kicks out their 30-year-old roommate after his 4 and 7-year-old stepsons crack 30 eggs around the house and micturate all over the laundry room: 'The oldest admitted that he couldn't help himself'

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Emmy Pratt • Writer and Editor
Feb 18, 2025 8:00 PM EST

Having roommates is pretty easy when you're young and single. Everyone has a rotten apple in the bunch, but designing your life around sharing living spaces with one or more other adults is not that hard in most cases. You might have to ask your 23-year-old roommate to do the dishes and they might get angry at you for that, but at least they won't throw a tantrum and break the dishes. If you have a roommate like that, you might as well have a toddler.

It's a lot harder to be a good roommate if you have kids. In a sense, the kids are your roommate's roommate, too, and getting them to respect their things isn't easy. I understand that times are tough; single parents being roommates with other single parents gives them the stability they would not already have, but it's often a recipe for disaster, depending on the kids. 

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  • The two little boys in this story are menaces to anyone they live with: their dad's roommates especially. They intentionally cause messes, leave bodily fluids everywhere, and create filth. It doesn't help that their dad doesn't properly supervise them or get them help for the extreme issues that they both have. 

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    AITH for telling our roommate his kids can't come here anymore, then giving him notice when he refused?

    A year ago my husband (31M) and I (29F) decided to let an old friend of ours... Lets name him Adam(30M) move in as his living situation won't allow his children there (all boys ages 7, 4, & 1). We have a daughter (age 6), so we
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    felt for his situation. Adam would get the whole basement with his own full sized fridge, the top floor is ours and the main floor was share common area. Adam was told that common areas are kept clean by all parties, and everyone is expected to clean their half of the house themselves.
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    We asked Adam why his kids weren't welcomed at his old place, he said that 2 of the 3 kids are not his. He was with a girl for 2 years on and off and had a baby with her. However, the people he lived with don't like. him playing daddy to the oldest
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    when they aren't his kids. My husband and I found it very strange, but we agreed 2 nights a week was okay with us. The first few months were okay, despite having to remind him about cleaning and the smell that was coming from the basement...
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    Until one morning I woke up, and stood there in the horror when I found raw eggs and shells all over the house! I screamed so loud, Adam came running. After seeing what happened, he investigated, than came back up to apologized. His excuse was he over slept and the oldest admitted that he went into my fridge and couldn't help himself
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    when he seen the big 30pk of eggs. From there on, the 2 oldest kept sneaking upstairs early in the morning while Adam slept. Breaking things, stealing things, eating things, and even started going to the top floor where we live. Each time Adam would given
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    an apology and promise to do better to keep them under control. My final straw was when I woke up to my brand new Costco pack of ice cream sandwiches half eaten, melted and smooshed into multiple surfaces of the house.
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    It started with a lock on the basement door, so Adam could keep the kids downstairs while he slept. Then we had to remove the lock on the bathroom door because they started locking themselves in and peeing on all surfaces of the bathroom. We put a baby gate up to keep them out of the living room because they kept stealing and breaking things.
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    Which they ripped down twice and I ended up it into the wall instead. Present day, our house so locked down that his kids are only able to be in the basement. The smell from the basement is so strong (like sour milk and vomit), people refuse to come here anymore and Adam keeps claim there is no smell.
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    Adam has never used a single cleaning product to clean except baby wipes. The downstairs furniture is all coated in some gross sticky film. There is paint missing from the walls and some holes. When we found out I was pregnant, we decided Adam needed to leave for obvious reasons. We were planning on
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    waiting a little as we just wanted him to move before the baby is born and I am only 2 months along.…... but then Thursday happened
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    I was home alone, so I decided to take advantage of it, blasted some music and started cleaning. An hour later, I went to throw in a load of laundry. I grabbed the bottle of detergent...it was covered in pee. Pee was everywhere!!! The laundry tub was clogged with pee, on the floor, side of the washer, now all over my hands, EVERYWHERE!!! |
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    cleaned it up, put my load in and called my husband crying. My husband was ped and messaged our group chat saying what happened and how the 2 oldest kids can't come here any longer. Adam apologies and says how sorry he is that I cleaned it and that it upset me. Then he stated how those are his children and it's unfair to say they can't
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    come here and he is going to bring them anyways. Long story short, I snapped, I told him I put a lock on the laundry door and he has 60days to move out. Adam just apologized and took his notice.
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    All our family and friends are happy we are kicking him out because the smell is so bad. Yet some feel we were attacking the kids for being "different" and stating that locking them out of rooms was insensitive.... So I need to know.. AITA?
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    EDIT: I did not expect this post to blow up like it did and I appreciate all the comments. But I would like to address the comments about calling CPS! They had a case opened for over a year and it was recently closed. Family services didn't care about the state of the basement, unfortunately.
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    EDIT 2: As I said, the kids are only here twice a week and this was happened in a full year span. That's roughly 104days. Some weekends they were fine, some they yell-talk really loud or having screaming contest non stop ***(not a hurt or in trouble scream. It's literally like one of
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    those screams you do if someone asks how loud you can scream)***, and other weekends have been obvious h..l. This whole thing has been a huge build up, not one after another events. It's been almost 2 months with no huge out of pocket issues until the Laundry room incident.
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    rikunia NTA. You and your husband went above and beyond to help Adam, but he completely disrespected your home, your rules, and your family's well-being. This isn't about his kids being "different"-this is about completely unacceptable behavior that has made your home unlivable.
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    Adam failed to supervise his kids, failed to enforce boundaries, and failed to keep the space clean. The fact that the smell is so bad people refuse to visit is a huge red flag. Worse, he refused to acknowledge the problem and dismissed your very reasonable requests to keep his kids under control.
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    The pee incident alone would have been enough to justify asking him to leave immediately. The fact that it was just the final straw in a long series of escalating issues makes it even more clear: he had plenty of chances, and he blew them.
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    You're not punishing the kids; you're enforcing boundaries that Adam refused to. If people think you were too harsh, they can invite him and his kids to stay with them and see how long they last.
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    No_Attention6060 I dread to see what the basement looks like after they move out. BTW NTA
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    Ritaredditonce I envision a hazmat situation.
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    Fickle_Toe1724 NTA. Adam needs to hire and pay for professional cleaners to come in and clean up when he moves out. That basement is filled with bio hazards, that you should not have to deal with. And apparently, he does not know how to clean. He also needs to pay for any damaged furnishings. Anyone who says you are wrong, should let him live with them for 6 months.
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    TheWhiteCrowParade I can't even understand why a 4 and 7 year old would do that. Can't even think of a disorder that would cause that behavior. Most of that is one thing but the peeing confuses me. NTA but something's wrong with the kids.
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    Kyzer577 OP honestly I think its some type of defiant disorder because he said if they can't calm them down, they will vomit... I don't know if its forced vomit or stress induced... but it would explain the smell
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