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I’m confused. Is Valentina a lesbian or bisexual?

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I don’t get it. Is Val a Lesbian or bi? one moment she says she likes women and in the next she says she only likes 1 woman 

And another anon:

If there’s one thing I don’t appreciate it’s the whole insistence that val doesn’t like women she just likes Juls,, like it’s the trope where she just has an exception

I actually don’t really see this as one of those situations. Val has already said sex with guys didn’t do much for her, she’s said that she’s never felt the same way with a boy, she didn’t even believe in love before. I don’t think anything about the writing is saying Juls is the exception to her otherwise only liking men.

What is a possibility is her only liking Juls out of…any human, that is the trope these storylines fall into more often, where once someone realizes they’re in love with a woman, they’re still only about that one woman. But even that, the whole “do you like girls?” “No. I like Juliana” and “I like women, actually, no, I like one woman, I like Juliana” thing is more to sell the drama and the romance. That long pause after she says the “No” to Eva’s question was to make us think, oh, is she going to deny her feelings? BAM, no, she’s gonna say it’s only Juliana, all romantic-style.

She could be bi or gay, still, and they might leave it vague, it doesn’t matter to the story what she defines herself as, Juls is her soulmate.

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I don’t know if you’ve talked about this.. when lucho and juls mum find out about juliantine they not only tell them it’s wrong they physically attack val :(( it’s pretty horrible to watch and I can’t stop thinking about how much trauma she’s been through

Omg, I haven’t talked about it, but I did notice that. I did notice the parallels in Juls and Val defending their girls, and Juls tried to step in when Lucho went after Val, but god, Val is the immediate target so often. I thought that might have been one of the reasons they zoomed in on her during the Lupe scene, but she didn’t seem to be reacting to it in the end.

She’s been through so much and it’s kind of impressive that she gets to show it? I’ve mentioned before how Juliantina seems so separate in how natural it is, even from the other AAM stories, but it shows even in this. Lucia gets kidnapped like it’s her job and she bounces back, while Val literally had panic attacks, didn’t want to leave the house, was still spooked by every little noise, still feared the cartel, her family held multiple worried conversations about her, Camilo had to come talk to her, she needed meds to calm down. How often does that happen?

And yes, the presence and thoughts of Juls eventually took over and maybe that’s a bit too TV romantic, but it’s not like it was an instant thing, she even hung up on her initially. It was actually her defense of Juls, during the talk with Lucia, and the niggling thought that their relationship might not be real, that actually distracted her. That’s fair enough. And if it led to sitting on top of Juls while looking at her jawline as Camilo babbled about transmigration, well, we’ve seen Barbara Lopez, that’s actually pretty realistic.

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to the anon that said that people celebrated name days in Mexico… we don’t lol at least the majority of the population doesn’t and the circles in which Val moves definitely wouldn’t, it’s just that some people (mostly in small towns) still give their kids the name that’s marked on the calendar but it’s not really a thing anymore. it probably just seems weird to that anon that Val doesn’t know because well… it’s St. Valentines and everyone knows when that is lol

Oh, okay, look at these little things we’re learning. 😀

But yeah, how did she forget for even a second? Shows how little she thought of romance before. Now she’s going to be the dreamiest, most romantic gf of all time.