I Never Told My Husband’s Family I Understood Spanish – Until I Heard My Mother-in-Law Say, ‘She Can’t Know the Truth Yet’

But there was this distance, this careful way they spoke around me.

When I got pregnant with Mateo, my mother-in-law visited for a month. She walked into my kitchen every morning and rearranged my cabinets without asking.

One afternoon, I heard her tell Luis in Spanish that American women didn’t raise children properly, that they were too soft. Luis had defended me, but quietly, like he was afraid.

I’d learned Spanish in high school and college.

But I never corrected them when they assumed I didn’t understand.

At first, it felt strategic. But over time, it just felt exhausting.

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