R. Eric Thomas Tribune Content Agency

Asking Eric

Dear Eric: I allowed the daughter of a cousin, with whom I am not close, to move in with me while she finishes college. When she moved in last January it was supposed to be for a semester, but this is the longest semester I have ever seen.

We had an incident where she left gobs of hair all over my bathroom, which I had to clean up. I told her via text I didn’t like it.

She walked around my house for weeks so angry with me, and when I said something to her as she was leaving the house, she slammed the door in my face.

There were other incidents. When she moved in, she had at least nine big boxes in my living room. I have been asking for around seven months for her to move them, and she won’t.

So, we had a big blow-up because of that an

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