Sledge wrote:Well, I don't know how tihngs work in your neck of the woods, but most people I know don't live with their cousins, so you could try telling him to go home.
Surely you must realize that while it may not be common some people actully DO live with their cousins.
I use to live in my aunt and uncle's house with my parrents, my brother, and our cousin after we got kicked out of our house for "a couple weeks to put in new carpeting" according to our land lord at the time. The house was burned down a week later BY THE FIRE DEPARTMENT as a controlled training fire for the new recruits. Then they paved over the lot and turned it into a parking lot.
My other cousin from my dad's side of the family allso just moved out of my house a couple weeks ago after living here for 2 years.
So I've lived with two of my cousins from different sides of the family at different times.
Now back to the OP, how old is your cousin? I'm guessing a verry young child of about 5-8 by the way you descibe him/her but not entirly sure.
Burn wrote:ummmm boo-hoo?
No really ... you said you lock your door, done. Problem solved.
He cries? Not your problem. Inform your parents or the parents of your cousin that it's your room and you'd like your privacy and that you'd like your cousin to leave you alone as he annoys you.
Plain and simple. Stand up for your basic rights.
As much as this is a shock to me and probly to Burn as well when he reads this, I actully agree with Burn.
Unless of course you actully SHARE a room with your cousin in which case he has as much right to be in there as you do but if it's YOUR room and not his I don't care who's house you're liveing in you have the right to lock him out if you don't want him in your room.
Any shared spaces you can't do anything about him there. A shared space is just that. You have no right to lock him out if it's shared so no locking him out of the house.