Shared 3-bedroom apartment with 3 roommates is slowly being taken over by dozens of plants, complains one of the roommates: 'She started with about 5 or 6 plants in the living room, but now there are over 20. [She also] has about 20 plants in her bedroom'

Shared space has a connotation of sharing. But some people never learned this skill. You know how this goes… Whether it be by sheer reluctance to pick up after themselves or an uncanny ability to accumulate things to the point where there's almost no choice but to keep them in the common space. When you live with one of these people.

And I'd know. In my relationship, I happen to be this person. My partner, bless her, is forced to live with my accumulations spilling out into her carefully crafted aesthetic spaces, despite the fact that there is already an entire room in our home dedicated to them. 

But, while it's important to be respectful to your spouse and the home you have together, it's an entirely different beast when you're living with roommates who might otherwise be complete strangers. For one thing, you might have very little to do with each other's lives if it weren't for the fact that you lived together, and when the foundations of a relationship are built on a single transactional thing, you need to uphold your end and be a good roommate.

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