Friend Ruins Shared Couch in Moving Disaster - AITA for Refusing to Split Replacement Cost?

A 28-year-old man thought he and his 26-year-old friend were splitting apartment furniture costs like adults. Then a couch showed up in the middle of a downpour, and everything went sideways fast.

Here’s the mess: his friend bought a “great deal” couch without running it by him, expecting him to split the bill later. The delivery day was chaos, it was pouring rain, the guys struggled to get the couch inside, and she decided to jump in and help. Somehow, the couch got drenched and ended up damaged beyond repair, and she only told him after he got home from work.

Now they’re arguing over the replacement cost, and the couch is the least of it.

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So I'm (28M) and recently moved into a new apartment with my friend (26F). We decided to share the cost of furnishing the place to save some money.

She found a great deal on a beautiful couch, and without consulting me, she went ahead and bought it, expecting me to split the cost later. The day the couch arrived, it was pouring rain, and the delivery guys were struggling to get it inside.

My friend decided to help them, but in the process, the couch got drenched and damaged beyond repair. She didn't tell me about this until I came home from work and saw the ruined couch in the living room.

I was understandably upset that she didn't wait for me to help, and now we were left with a destroyed piece of furniture that we were supposed to split the cost for. I told her that I wouldn't be contributing to replacing the couch since I wasn't involved in the decision to buy it or the subsequent damage.

She got upset, accusing me of being unfair and avoiding my financial responsibility. But I feel like she acted unilaterally and put us in this situation without considering my opinion.

Now she's insisting that I should still pay for half the replacement. I can't help but feel like I'm being taken advantage of, and I don't believe I should foot the bill for something I didn't agree to in the first place.

So, Reddit, AITA?

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It’s like the pressure after friends trash the apartment, and OP refuses to split rent evenly in Unfair Rent Split After Friends Trash Apartment: AITA?

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OP comes home from work to find the ruined couch sitting in the living room, and that is when the “we’ll talk later” plan turns into a full-on fight.

While the delivery guys were wrestling the couch in the rain, his friend was busy helping instead of calling him, and OP is furious she never looped him in.

The real tension hits when she demands half the replacement cost, even though OP says he never agreed to the purchase in the first place.

And now the friendship is stuck on one question, did OP sign up to pay for a couch he did not choose, after an accident he did not cause?

We're curious to hear your perspective. Share your thoughts in the comments.

Nobody wants to pay half for a couch they never voted for, especially when it got wrecked on delivery day.

Still arguing about who pays after the couch delivery disaster, read if you should split repair costs equally with friends. Debating Fairness, should I split apartment repair costs equally with friends?