'AITA for making my son and his wife pay for their room in my house?' UPDATED 2X

"AITA for making my son and his wife pay for their room in my house?"

I (38F) live with my son, Jack and his wife, Georgia (both of whom are 21). I provide them with the master bedroom, so they can live in private while I take the guest room. I clean, sometimes cook, and do all of the bills. The only thing I ask of them is $10 dollars from each of them per week.

My son say's I'm being unreasonable, and since he is my son, he shouldn't have to pay his hard earned money to me, his own mother. I'm only asking $10 dollars from them though. AITAH?

What do you think? AITA? This is what commenters had to say:

K_A_irony said:

LOL move back into your own bedroom. Charge them 50% of the market rate for rent or tell them to get the F out. Stop cooking and cleaning for 2 grown adults.

Ghost_wolf90 said:

YTA if you don’t start at least charging each of them 1/3 of all house utilities since they’re so ungrateful to be charged a mere $40 a month.

sevenbluedonkeys said:

NTA, but how did you come up with $10 a week? That is like an allowance for a 9 year old, not rent

SpiteWestern6739 said:

YTA, but to yourself for babying two fully grown adults and letting them leech off you

And BeachinLife1 said:

Tell them they have 30 days to make other living arrangements. If they can find something cheaper than $40 per month, they should go live there.

The next day, OP shared this update:

I am back! Thank all of you guys for your comments. So, I am friends with Georgia's mom and dad. I've been over to their house a few times and it is pretty large. 2 story, 5 bed, 4 bath, mansion living basically. I told them how my son and Georgia are looking for an apartment at the very least and asked if they could pitch in.

Well, it turns out they thought the apartment that I lived in was their apartment. They said that Georgia had told them that they were "having me live with them because I couldn't afford a place of my own". I work full time in a very stable job.

So, I confronted my son and Georgia last night at dinner. My son didn't know that Georgia had said this to her parents, and was mad at Georgia for telling lies about me.

Georgia basically said I was desperate for money since I was making them pay in my "shabby apartment". So yea. I'm pretty ticked off at Georgia and I'm sure my son is too. I don't know if I'll make anymore updates, but I wanted to make this one since I feel like it related to the story very well.

As for my son having to pay rent, he did end up coming to me last night after Georgia went to bed and apologized for himself, and Georgia, saying that looking at places to stay was making her stressed with all of the money they'll have to be spending in the future.

And then one day later, they shared a second update:

Ok! Hello everyone. So many of you have been asking for another update from my 2 posts before this. So, here it is. So this morning, I talked to Georgia and my son. I sat them down and told them that if they want to continue living in my home, they will be moving into the guest room and I would be upping the charges to $25 a week. I'm also not going to be in charge of cleaning their stuff anymore.

My son nodded his head, kind of sadly but Georgia understandably looked pretty pissed. She called me such a "AH" for upping the prices for her own son and DIL. Not to mention that I'm upping the prices for a "tiny, cramped bedroom".

My son talked to Georgia about how this is showing them real world experience, and told her it was better than being kicked out all together. She nodded and I helped them move their stuff into the other room and my stuff in my room. Well, apparently, Georgia went behind my back. Again.

So you remember how I'm friends with Georgia's parents? Well, they ended up calling me, yelling at me as to why I am charging their daughter $100 dollars a week for the other room in my house. I told them I was charging them $25, and that it isn't all that small. The only difference is the master has a bathroom attached, and the other room has a guest room next to it, just not attached.

So, I explained that to them and they said that if their own daughter can be crying about the house and "rent", then it must be horrible living. I am SO tempted to kick her out. But, I sent photos of my apartment to them, and they haven't responded. Should I do another update? Also: thanks for all the help in the comments :)

We'll keep you posted!