My mother-in-law accused me of betraying her son simply because I was expecting another girl\u2014and that same night, she nearly sent me to the hospital while I was still carrying my baby.My name is Isabela Cort\u00e9s. I\u2019m 27, and for years I believed my marriage to Alejandro Aranda was solid. We married in Quer\u00e9taro in 2017 with a modest celebration\u2014mariachi music, white flowers, and his mother, Do\u00f1a Mercedes, crying as if she were giving away royalty. As we were leaving for our hotel, she held my hands and whispered:\u201cNow it\u2019s time to give us the next Alejandro Aranda IV.\u201dI laughed nervously, thinking it was just an old-fashioned remark. I had no idea it would become an expectation that haunted me.In Alejandro\u2019s family, they prided themselves on a strange \u201ctradition\u201d\u2014for over a century, only boys had been born. They spoke of it like a blessing, a mark of their lineage. So when I got pregnant during our honeymoon and we found out it was a girl, everyone was stunned. Alejandro needed time to process it, but when Luc\u00eda was born, something in him changed. He held her and cried in a way I had never seen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI didn\u2019t know I could love this much,\u201d he told me.And for a while, it was true. He adored her. But his mother never accepted her the same way. Whenever Alejandro wasn\u2019t around, she would drop cutting remarks.\u201cThat doesn\u2019t look like an Aranda nose.\u201d\u201cGirls don\u2019t happen in this family.\u201d\u201cGod sends signs for a reason.\u201dI stayed quiet, telling myself she was just bitter and old. I thought ignoring her would keep the peace. That was my mistake\u2014thinking silence could shrink poison.Two years later, I became pregnant again. When we found out it was another girl, I begged Alejandro to keep it private for a while. I wanted to enjoy my pregnancy without Mercedes\u2019s interference. But he insisted.\u201cShe\u2019s my mother. She has a right to know. She\u2019ll get over it.\u201dShe didn\u2019t.We went to his parents\u2019 house one Sunday. When Alejandro shared the news, Mercedes dropped her cup. Her face twisted, not with joy, but disbelief.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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