My Husband Refuses to Allow Me to Teach Our Daughter Spanish!

I’m originally from Trinidad and Tobago where our native language is English my heritage is made up of Indian, Chinese and Latina, so because of the Latina side of my family, I’m also fluent in Spanish. When I first met my husband I fell so deeply in love with him (never mind our 14 year age gap)... I’m 21 and he’s 35 and together we have a 1 year old daughter. He knew I spoke two languages but never really tried to learn my second language, which I had no problem with. My husband is Caucasian American, which means my daughter is made up of 4 different races in her (Indian, Chinese, Latina and Caucasian). When I was pregnant he and I would get into many fights about whether or not our daughter would learn Spanish and eventually it became a problem so I decided not to bring it up and teach her myself. I would talk to her in Spanish, whatever she learned in English ie colors, animals, shapes, numbers etc. from her dad she would learn from me in Spanish. Again I love my husband but when he said, “My daughter is American, you’re an American now and I’m American and here we speak English” it broke my heart, it made me feel as though he doesn’t accept me for who I am. It’s hard to talk to him about anything because even when we first got together, I was 19 and he was 33, I realized he was pretty set in his ways so I could never change him but this is my daughter and I want her to be bilingual. What should I do?Edit: when Brielle was first born he said “There will be no speaking of any language but English in this house” and this was after I just told my baby “¡Te amo!” (I love you!). Even when I’m cooking he HATES when I play my Latino music and he never eats my food when I cook things like arepas, empanadas even when I make churros for dessert he’s either not hungry or already ate. via /r/Parenting http://ift.tt/2EZdhSH