My fourth principle for living with housemates successfully is “The Incest Taboo.”
Here is an excellent first-person account of how easy it is to fall into to sleeping with your housemate. And then the heartache that follows. It’s a scenario that is not uncommon as the comments make clear. Some think she should have stood up for herself and her feelings. But when you fall into bed, “it’s just sex” it’s hard to admit that it isn’t.
It’s by Taylor Cox on the Thought Catalog blog.
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