It’s important for those who are dwelling together to really apply one of three core values of etiquette that I tend to stress, which are ‘respect,’ ‘honesty’ and consideration.
The thing is to communicate and say, ‘Hey, I’ve got a lot of work — How do you want to work this out? Do I go in the room? Do you go here? What do we do?’ Just talk respectfully, be honest and figure out what that is.
It can be easy to want to default to tiptoeing around who gets to work where or passive aggressively making your roommate or significant other aware that you don’t like how things are working between the two of you, but in this instance, that kind of thing is the worst thing you can do.
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