Friend co-signs a lease to help her single mom pal, who turns the shared house into her family’s personal kingdom and refuses to discuss roommate rules or share space: ‘I told her we needed to talk about house rules, but she said she’s not interested’

Co-signing a lease for a friend sometimes means signing up to be the sole contender in a social quicksand survival competition. And a full-time witness to household drama. A well-meaning act of support spirals quickly into a comedy of errors once one party decides to treat the place like a private kingdom. Soon, there's a cast of relatives descending, sacred rituals that require one party to wait outside, and daily life scheduled around imaginary privacy and mysterious visitors. The friend's approach to house rules takes more inspiration from medieval law than anything found in a roommate handbook. 

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