Her Daughter Says She Humiliated Her Boyfriend After Saying They Couldn’t Sleep In The Same Room On A Trip
When you were younger, did your parents ever freak out about you sleeping in the same room as your boyfriend or girlfriend?
One woman and her husband have gotten into a disagreement with their daughter’s boyfriend after they told him he wasn’t allowed to sleep in the same room as their daughter during a trip to visit her at school.
She and her husband have two children, a 16-year-old son and an older daughter who is a freshman at a college a few states away. Next month, they’re planning on taking a family trip to visit her and offered to take her boyfriend of three years, Steve.
“Steve is really a great kid, but since money is a bit tighter in his family, he is doing two years at junior college while working to save up for the school my daughter attends,” she explained.
“We have never taken him on a trip, but since he says money is tight, we decided to bring him with us on our visit to see our daughter. He visited her once on his own back in the fall, but due to his finances, he wouldn’t be able to afford another trip this school year. He was over the moon when we invited him.”
Because Steve is in a difficult place financially, she and her husband want to make sure he won’t have to pay for a thing. They’d pay for all his arrangements, from his flight to his food and drinks.
They’ll be staying in a hotel near her daughter’s dorm and booked a hotel room for Steve and their son to share since they get along. However, things started going downhill with her planning once her daughter found out her roommate wouldn’t be around during their visit.
“My daughter’s dorm roommate is out of town that weekend, and she plans to have Steve stay in her dorm with her while we visit,” she said.
“I told her absolutely not. I said what they do when we aren’t there is their business, but since we are going to be there and funding this whole trip, he will be staying at the hotel. Call my husband and I old school or traditionalists, but…the idea of them staying together on our visit makes us uncomfortable.”
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Although she and her husband have never had any issues with Steve, the issue became worse after he called them and asked why he couldn’t stay in the dorm with their daughter. Steve defended the idea by reminding her that he’s an adult, which made her upset.
She eventually told Steve that if he wanted to disrespect her wishes and sleep in the dorm with her daughter, she and her husband would not be paying for any of his trip accommodations, and he’d have to get there himself.
Steve said she knew he wouldn’t be able to afford the trip if that was the case, and she reminded him that he could go on the trip with all expenses paid, but he’d have to stay in the hotel with them.
“He agreed, but now my daughter is saying we embarrassed him, and he’s thinking of not coming,” she added.
Now, she’s wondering if she and her husband were too harsh for giving Steve that ultimatum.
Should she and her husband let Steve stay with their daughter, or was their request reasonable?
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