I am tired of protecting one hidden room

Dear Delyara, The secret itself is one thing. The protection around it is another. That’s the exhausting part now. The monitoring. The omissions. The adjusted stories. The internal route-mapping in conversations. The way one hidden room changes how the whole house is lived in. I don’t think people understand how much energy secrecy consumes over time. Not just in silence, but in architecture. I am tired of living around one room I cannot open. That tiredness feels larger than the secret some days.