La sombra del otro (English: Other's Shadow) is a Mexican telenovela produced by Julissa and Giselle González Salgado for Televisa.^[1] It premiered on Canal de las Estrellas on May 27, 1996 and ended on Friday, August 16, 1996.

Edith González and Rafael Rojas starred as protagonists, while Alejandro Camacho starred as main antagonist.

Pressured by her father, Don Clemente, Lorna Madrigal gets engaged to Iván Lavarta, a renowned psychologist who agrees to the engagement only by gratitude, because when they were children, he saved her from a fire that, unfortunately, killed Lorna's mother, Bernardina del Castillo. Despite the moral engagement, on their wedding day, Lorna decides not to marry Iván.