Sometimes even one simple revelation can flip everything on its head in a relationship. In this story, everything was fine, but, suddenly, one thing changed the situation.

The reader’s boyfriend discovered that she is not just his flatmate but also the landlord of the very building they call home.

We got a message from our reader.

I own a house with a spare apartment that I rent out. Not so long ago, my boyfriend of 5 months moved in with me. He didn’t know that I was a landlord.

Yesterday my renter came up to my apartment and paid the rent in cash because she had some problems with bank transfers.

My boyfriend noticed that and his jaw nearly dropped. He asked why she gave me the money and I said that I was her landlord. His face turned red, and he started screaming at me.

He blamed me for hiding the fact that I had extra space. He said I could have offered it to his brother who was struggling to find an apartment.

He said, “You should evict your tenant and let my brother live there for free.”

I’m seriously considering this because his brother might be my future family after all. I apologized, but my boyfriend says he won’t talk to me until his brother moves in with us.