“…House sharing is especially characteristic for students in the UK (Heath et al, 2018) and the Netherlands (van Hulle et al, 2015;van Hulle, Hooft, Marchal, Zwaneveld, & Vijncke, 2017). However, even though shared housing is a growing phenomenon in Europe, literature on the social dynamics and interpersonal relationships involved in such situations seems to be scarce (Clark et al, 2018;Clark, Tuffin, Frewin, & Bowker, 2017) Even though shared households are different from familial households in their structures, in many respects these differences are minimal. In both types of households, chores and economic costs have to be negotiated, relationships can become quite complex and intimate, individuals live in close proximity to each other, and sharing relationships are often characterized by a sense of connectedness (Heath et al, 2018).…”