Friend group’s annual cabin trip spirals into drama when newcomer boyfriend Ed demands the master bedroom that a couple had paid extra for, ruins the vacation until he gets it: ‘Ed said he didn’t feel comfortable in open spaces and insisted on the master’

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Etai Eshet • Editor
May 18, 2025 2:00 PM EDT

Look, I don't want to be ageist or anything, but your late twenties are the golden hour for growing weary of "quirks" in the friend group, prime time for developing rare allergies to drama, posturing, and any new guy who thinks flexing his big boy muscles is a substitute for basic decency, especially on someone else's dime. 

This group has nurtured a beautiful tradition: a classic annual cabin getaway, a sanctuary of inside jokes, mutual respect, and paying a little extra if you'd like your bedroom to have walls and dignity. Enter Ed, the newcomer, who apparently mistakes a group trip for the Hunger Games and believes the fastest way to make friends is by out-alpha-ing everyone else before he even unpacks his moisturizer.

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  • While everyone else is yearning for peace, old stories, and possibly eight hours of sleep uninterrupted by territorial disputes, Ed is ready to grab the master bedroom by the horns and establish his reign. It’s as if he can’t set aside his roaming alpha persona for one weekend, no matter how many times tradition, logic, or Venmo receipts politely suggest he chill. 

    Hey, Ed: this isn’t a pride of lions in need of a new leader,  it’s a circle of adults desperate to avoid unnecessary conflict and enjoy their paid-for comforts in peace.

  • "AITA for refusing to give up the master bedroom to a friend’s boyfriend during a group cabin trip?"

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  • My friend group [me (26M), my girlfriend (25F), and friends Jay (25M), Eva (26F), Liam (25M) and Frank (26M)] has a tradition of renting a cabin every
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  • summer/winter. The cabin has a master bedroom (double bed), a twin room (two single beds), a loft (two single beds), and a pull- out couch in the living room. My
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  • girlfriend and I have always paid extra to use the master exclusively. Everyone else shares the remaining beds, and Eva
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  • usually takes the couch since she snores and doesn't want to room with a guy.
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  • This year, Frank asked if his boyfriend Ed (28M) could come with us. None of us had hadn't met him, but Frank said he'd
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  • cover meals to make up for the cost. Ed seemed nice at first and paid for dinner the first night which was cool.
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  • Problems started when we got to the cabin. Ed said he and Frank wanted to take the master bedroom. I told him (maybe a little harshly) that my girlfriend
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  • and I usually use it since we pay extra. Ed said he didn't get what the big deal was and that we could sleep in one of the single beds or the couch. These single
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  • beds are small and could not comfortably fit two people, plus Eva would have to share a room with one of the guys, and she didn't want to. Ed said that my gf
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  • and Eva could share the couch, and I could room with one of the other guys.
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  • I didn't want to room with a guy when my gf and I have been together a lot longer, and there's no reason for me to room with someone else in favor of a couple who's been together less than a year.
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  • Jay and Liam tried to help, like giving Ed and Frank the couch so they could sleep side by side, but Ed said he didn't feel comfortable in open spaces and insisted on
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  • the master. Ed and I argued more, and he called me __ obic, saying I didn't support his and Frank's relationship by not letting
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  • them share a room. I was about to shout when my girlfriend shut me up and told Ed we'd take the couch.
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  • We didn't see them much the rest of the trip. I mostly hung out with my gf and Eva on hikes. Ed and Frank used the master and left a few days early. My gf Jay, Liam,
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  • Eva and I have been talking about what happened. Jay supports me, but Eva and Liam said I made a huge deal out of nothing and that
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  • letting them have the master for a week wasn't a big deal. Even my gf says I took things too far by keeping everyone up. I'm still ped about being kick out of
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  • the room but I think I might be ah le because it was late and everyone wanted to sleep but I kept dragging out the argument, and I didn't welcome Ed after he argued with me.
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  • TLDR: I didn't want to give up the master bedroom (that my girlfriend and I pay extra for) to a friend's boyfriend on our group cabin trip. Some friends say I overreacted and should've just let them have it to keep the peace.
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  • Rose_in_Winter Right. "We pay extra to share that room," should have been the end of discussion. Ed sounds kind of entitled. Any of the solutions he suggested for
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  • you is something he and Frank could have done. It's ridiculous that you wound up paying extra to sleep on a couch (which also made things inconvenient for Eva).
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