MY HUSBAND SAID I WAS “ONLY HALF THE MOTHER” HIS LATE WIFE HAD BEEN — I WAS FURIOUS AND TAUGHT HIM A LESSON HE WILL NEVER FORGET

When I married Gabriel eight years ago, he already had two children: Nico and Ema, from his late wife, Marina, who had died in an accident. From the very beginning, the children were loving toward me. I did everything for them—school lunches, homework, sleepless nights with fever, school presentations, everything. When I became pregnant with our son, Miguel, I ended up officially adopting both kids. They always called me “Mom,” and I treated all three of them exactly the same.

For a long time, I thought I had the perfect husband. Gabriel seemed dedicated, caring, and present. Until I got pregnant again. That was when everything began to change. He became cold, distant, and irritated by everything. I tried to talk, tried to understand… but he always said it was “all in my head.”

Then one day, in the middle of an argument, he exploded. He said he wished Marina were still alive and that the one who should’ve died was me. He told me to stop “pretending” to be Nico and Ema’s mother. That I was “half the mother Marina had been.” And worse: he admitted he had only agreed to have children with me “so I wouldn’t bother him about it.”

That sentence shattered me. The ground vanished beneath my feet. But at the same time, something inside me ignited. I took a deep breath and said:

“After what you just said, I can no longer be your wife.”

He laughed. He laughed right in my face.

“You’re not going anywhere. If you leave, you’ll mess up the kids’ heads. You depend on them.”

And it was in that mocking smile that I decided he needed to learn a lesson he would never forget.

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