Some are violations of your person or property: They can replace your medications, mess with your food, steal money from your wallet. Those with whom you share your home are especially well placed to do all kinds of bad things to you.
This may be one reason your roommates could tell themselves that they weren’t wronging you. When they benefit from it, we generally have a handle on the situation: We call it “exploitation.” When our relationship to them is like that of a child to a parent, or a patient to a doctor, and they allow harm to come to us, we’ve got another handle: We can say that they have breached a “duty of care.” Your case involved neither offense. People can wrong us in ways that arise from our vulnerability to them.
How could a person not tell me she heard my private thoughts and then held them against me? Name Withheld Is this an invasion of privacy? Was it wrong for them to not disclose to me weeks earlier that they had been listening in? My sessions always begin with my therapist asking if I had any thoughts of self-harm or suicidal urges in the past week. I could get a white-noise machine, but at this point I’m scared that they may hear a part of my session and gang up on me again. They asked me to do them in a coffee shop or the public library (which is still closed in my city because of Covid). Now both roommates have told me I will not be allowed to have my sessions in the apartment anymore. Recently, one of my roommates told me that she had been listening to my sessions for weeks and heard me mention her name and the name of our other roommate. My therapist is no longer seeing patients in person, so I’ve been attending therapy sessions at home in my room.
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