AITA for telling my roommate the plants aren't communal after she repotted mine?
me (21F), art student, i have somewhere around forty plants in a shared apartment. that sounds unhinged written down but they're mostly small and they're all mine, i've bought or propagated every one over three years. my roommate (22F) moved in six months ago. she's been great about them, waters them when i'm home late, asks questions. two weeks ago she repotted my hoya while i was at studio. she used a pot she bought, better soil than i had it in, and she was genuinely proud of it. the hoya is now dropping leaves. hoyas hate being disturbed and that one was root bound on purpose because it was about to flower for the first time in three years. i told her the plants aren't communal and she needs to ask before touching them. she said she'd been watering them for six months and nobody called that not communal, and that i only care about ownership when something goes wrong. that landed harder than i expected because it's a little bit true. i've been happy to let her care for them right up until she made a decision about one.
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