A clue may be in your statement that you water it once a week.
It's possible that you are over watering it, as they don't like being watered too much.
So if try to "up" the humidity, as Nan suggested and not water it as much.
With regard to your embarrassment at your family knowing their present is not faring too well.
I have been known to nip to a local garden centre or B &Q and replace a plant bought for me.
Anger management!!! Help needed.
To think that London, or anywhere else for that matter, does not belong to any one demographic
Nicola Sturgeon’s husband Peter Murrell re-arrested over SNP finances.