Secret You Can't Tell

what is your secret that you can't tell anyone because it will probably ruin your life about 5 years before my stepdad passed away from Alzheimer's and Leukemia I started noticing how quiet he would be during the evenings when I visited him and my mom I asked him why don't you want to talk a bit more to which he responded if I don't say anything I can't say anything wrong I took it to mean that he was afraid of conflicts with my mom and said that I would want to hear anything he had to say after

he died I realized why he said what he said I was at lunch with them when he tried to ask me something but used completely wrong nouns nonsense choices and every time he did that my mom started laughing and saying haha now you've totally gotten things weird she didn't know she was being condescending because she didn't realize he was getting Advanced dementia none of us knew then and she just brushed his mistakes off as being silly she couldn't know it shamed him so much that he stopped talking since he didn't trust his words anymore nor

his sense of balance I will never ever explain this to my mom not even if I am super angry it would do irreparable damage to my relationship with her she mourned him deeply