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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you don’t come home I need a text at 11 pm do I know and something at 10 am so I know you are alive.[/quote]

I like this suggestion. I know she'd need her privacy, but I'd worry. Otherwise I think treating each other as respectful roommates is great advice. Don't let her fall into a pattern of your doing everything for her.[/quote]

On the other hand, I think this is ridiculous.  Why would you assume she’s lying in a ditch somewhere?  What if she spent the night somewhere and isn’t up by 10? I agree not to do everything for her and to treat one another as respectful roommates, which does NOT include timed checkins.  Treat her as the adult she is.[/quote]
NP. Does she need to check in by 11 on the dot every single night? Of course not. But when I lived with roommates (my own age) we ALWAYS shot each other texts if we knew we wouldn't be coming home for the night/coming home really late/etc. It's just common courtesy, whether you're living with your parents or non-parental roommates, and IMO the OP has every right to expect very basic common courtesy like that. [/quote]

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