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TIFU by telling my brother about my mom's secret affair

Exactly what it says on the tin, basically.

So technically this happened two days ago, but I have been busy trying to process this mess. Please be patient with me if this gets a little rambly or chaotic.

I (20M) have had to move out of my parents house and into supervised housing for teens 1,5 years ago. Mostly because of my emotionally abusive, mentally ill mother. Since moving out both my own mental health as well as my relationship with my parents has improved a lot and I am now back to visiting them on Sundays every 1-2 weeks.

Even though they started out a bit questionably my parents were fitting together quite well and loved to make music together. My mom met my dad when she was 19 during an orchestra event hosted by their church (New Apostolic). He was 31 and unhappily married. They started dating shortly after and married a few months later. Since then they've had 3 children (me, my 18y.o. brother & my 13y.o. sister) and moved into a small house in a small German town. All great, right?

Except my mom is really ill in the head and it is progressively getting worse. From parentifying and becoming co-dependent on me to accusing my siblings of being possessed by evil angels that make her want to hit them and everything in-between, this woman has done it all.

Now forward to a few months ago, where she suddenly started to confide in me about her "new best friend", the local district rector (basically the head priest of a new apostolic congregation). Yeah, right.

However, I didn't have any proof of anything untoward happening and this friendship has seemingly been the driving factor of her being able to leave the house again (she has a diagnosed panic disorder). So I didn't say anything.

But then two weeks ago, she apparently couldn't keep her secret to herself any longer. During her visit in my small one-bedroom apartment, while we were chatting and listening to music she paused before pulling out her phone and asking if she may show me a picture. It was a picture of her and her "bestie", a married (!!) priest 20 years her senior, cuddling and leaning their heads together. She explained to me that the photo had been taken the day prior on their two year anniversary.

And she seemed so so proud of it.

I don't know if any of you would know what to say in this situation, but I certainly didn't.

I can't even recall whether I said anything at all.

I must've because she continued talking about how good he is for her, how well they fit, how much she loves him.

The last thing she said to me before leaving is not to tell my dad about any of this.

Now, to where I fucked up: I know that since I moved out my mother has started confiding in my brother as a free therapist instead (believe me, the guilt I feel about this is endless). So I foolishly assumed that meant he also knew about the new love of her life. So when I visited my family for Easter on Sunday and we finally had a moment alone (we usually use these moments to complain to each other about our crazy mom anyway) I sprung the topic onto him. Only to find out that my mother never breathed a word to him about anything of this.

So the asshole that told him something he wishes he'd never known was me and not her (for once).

My brother and I have since texted about it and came to the agreement that neither of us will say anything to my father for now, even though he'd deserve to know, and that we'll both do our best to make sure our little sister is left out of this. I'm not sure what my mom expects to come out of this other than completely tearing apart this family.

I know that ultimately I am not at fault because I'm not the one cheating on my husband of 24 years. But man, I sure do feel like a piece of shit for throwing this onto my brother.

TL;DR: my mentally ill mother has been cheating on my dad for two years now with a married man 20 years her senior, she recently told me and I assumed she told my little brother as well so when I tried to talk to him about it I accidentally revealed the affair to him instead

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