I don't think that the boundary stuff has to be about you being in authority over him. It's just normal roommate negotiation, which he would have to do with other people his own age if he lived with them. And stuff like respecting that other people want to be left alone when reading or late at night, that is a really important early adulthood developmental task.
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Date: 2009-11-24 08:55 am (UTC)