Mine, Yours, Ours

I’m having a lot of difficulty with these words lately. You see, when I had roommates I’d call the place I lived “mine” as in “My house”**. And when I would see SB at his home, it was “yours”, “Your house”.

Now I have moved into “your house” and would like to call it “my house” but SB thinks I should call it “our house”, which is reasonable, I guess. He is holding me to proper language use in a way that my roommates never have.

My roommates never appreciated my ability to label everything in the house as “mine”. But eventually I wore them down and they would just laugh at my inability to use words properly.

I think and hope that when we move into a new apartment (in about a week), one we have chosen together, the word “ours” will just roll off my tongue.