I Had Followed All My Family's Rules. Then I Couldn't Fulfill Their Biggest Expectation — And It Nearly Broke Me.
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"My grief consumed me. I was no longer the person I had been. I blamed myself, feeling the weight of every unfulfilled expectation and cultural pressure."
I had barely taken a sip of my burned cup of diner coffee when my uncle unexpectedly joined us. We scooched over, nestling into a snug booth, surprised and slightly disappointed to see him.
“Hola, tío! We didn’t know you were coming,” I greeted him with a half-kiss on his cheek.
My sister and I had taken the two-hour train ride from New York City to the New Jersey suburb to visit family, as we regularly did on weekends. My college internship had secured me a prestigious finance job straight out of college, and my father was keen to show us off.
As the waitress delivered the Western omelet I was starved for, my uncle blurted out, “When are you going to have a baby? You’re getting old; your eggs will be old. You don’t want that.” I sank into the red faux leather banquette, my appetite suddenly lost.
“No sé, tío,” I replied. “I don’t even have a boyfriend, I’m not married, and I’m only 25.” My father interjected, “She’s focused on her career — let her be.”
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