So I've been carrying this around with me for over a week now. It may seem really minor, but I wanted to get some more feedback. Last weekend, my uncle's family came up for a yearly festival we have in my little rinky-dink hometown. I was out with my one 17YO cousin and my aunt and we were walking around looking at the different vendors. My cousin mentioned the parade and how boring it was, so I pulled out my little Delta 8 THC (basically a milder legal form of regular weed taken from the hemp plant) vape to show him, really more as a joke than anything else. My aunt saw it and asked me what it was. In the moment, I panicked and said it was CBD. And that was it. That's all that happened.

Again, it definitely sounds very innocuous. However, I place a very high priority on telling the truth and so this little white lie has been bothering me since a couple days after it happened. I had also had a hit at the time, so I was a bit high when I was with them and in the past I've let my cousin hit my vape on like 3 occasions. This guilt that's been hanging over me has made me realize that I (27 YO guy) probably shouldn't be letting my cousins use my vape while they are still underage and that I probably shouldn't have been using when I was around my family when I didn't need to. So all that has been tumbling through my anxious mind this past week and I've felt kinda shitty ever since.

Here's the catch: I feel like if I came clean to my aunt, I'd risk damaging my relationship with her and my uncle and maybe my cousins too, whereas if I keep it to myself, no one is really harmed except for me feeling anxious and guilty. I definitely feel like I've already learned my lessons from the incident and feel like it's not quite worth it to actually bring it up again. But I can't seem to accept my lie and so I've continued to feel guilty. Should I really feel so bad? Or am I just beating myself up unnecessarily?