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’
I was standing at the top of the stairs, my hand wrapped around my son Mateo’s baby monitor, when my mother-in-law’s voice sliced through the quiet afternoon. She was speaking Spanish—confident, unguarded—certain I couldn’t understand. “She still doesn’t know, does she? About the baby.” My chest tightened. My father-in-law laughed softly. “No. And Luis…
