Am I wrong for being mad my roommate wore my clothes without asking?
Your roommate borrowed your shirt without asking and acts like you're overreacting. Here's who's actually in the wrong, and the fault split.
The owner
They came home to find their roommate wearing their shirt, which was taken out of their closet while they weren't there and without a word about it. Their stuff is their stuff, and a two-second text would have made the whole thing fine.
The borrower
They were running late, grabbed one shirt, wore it for a few hours, and planned to wash it and put it back before anyone noticed. They say they've shared clothes casually before and that treating one borrowed top like theft is a wild overreaction.
The verdict
Who's at fault
The borrower is more in the wrong here. Taking something out of someone's closet while they're not home isn't sharing, it's deciding for them. Living together makes a lot of things communal, but clothes stay personal unless you've both actually said otherwise, and a vague history of borrowing is not the same as standing permission. The borrower owns most of this because the fix was one text and they skipped it. The owner loses a little ground for jumping straight to a confrontation instead of just saying it bothered them and asking to be asked next time.
“Your closet isn't a shared closet just because the apartment is shared.”
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