The Italian Wife: a breath-taking and heartbreaking pre-WWII romance set in Italy

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But, ultimately, it was not the “bunga bunga” parties that undid him, but his inability to cope as Italy’s debt reached unsustainable levels in 2011, when he was forced to resign in favour of technocrats. Relationships are different, of course, but the same principles apply. Grand romantic gestures tend to be rare, and for me to look someone in the eye and tell them how I felt about them was always deeply uncomfortable. I used to simply hope my affection shone through with my actions rather than my words. I’d agreed to go with her to a childhood friend’s wedding and all I could feel was a wave of panic. How do they know who I am? Why does it sound like I’m already a fixture? Isn’t there some kind of process to this?

Italian Wife: a breath-taking and heartbreaking pre-WWII The Italian Wife: a breath-taking and heartbreaking pre-WWII

Silvio Berlusconi, the boastful billionaire media mogul who, despite scandals over his sex-fuelled parties and allegations of corruption, was Italy’s longest-serving prime minister, has died at the age of 86. However, the more time we spent together, the more obvious our different expectations of how to show love became. verifyErrors }}{{ message }}{{ /verifyErrors }}{{ Understandably, when we moved from a young relationship to something more serious, she expected clearer demonstrations of how I felt. Perhaps the most surprising part of the Italian crisis is that Berlusconi has emerged as a selfless voice of reason That said, I’d like to think I’ve adopted some of the Italian style in how I show love in our marriage. All my friends and family are so excited to meet you!’ That was my Italian then-girlfriend, Maggie, a couple of months into our relationship.

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My experience of true love has been magnified by cultural difference but there’s a universal lesson here. Meanwhile, I became better able to communicate my emotions, understanding the moments when I needed to go beyond my comfort zone to make her feel loved. On our first anniversary as a couple, I brought out my best Italian to post a gushing statement about the impact she’d had on my life and how she’d made me a better person. It helped me to build my confidence. Born in 1936 in Milan to a bank clerk father and housewife mother, he attended a Catholic college, where he began a complicated relationship with the Church, which supported him until the mounting allegations of sleaze “superseded the limits of decency” in the view of at least one weekly Catholic newspaper.

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Then, of course, I got down on one knee – much to the chagrin of my mother-in-law, who didn’t get the same gesture from Maggie’s dad! A one-time cruise-ship crooner, Berlusconi used his television networks and immense wealth to launch his long political career, during which he inspired both loyalty and loathing. Berlusconi and German chancellor Angela Merkel shake hands during the 2008 Italy-Germany summit in Trieste The absence of unprompted loving declarations came across as an imbalance: if she could say and do these things, why couldn’t I? Surely that meant I loved her less? And when she took the time to express these concerns, I felt uncomfortably pressured to behave in a way that was alien to me. Ironically, if Berlusconi had not interceded, claiming she was the niece of Hosni Mubarak, the Egyptian despot, the case might have ended there.

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When a 17-year-old Moroccan nightclub dancer known as Ruby the Heartstealer, who had been arrested for a petty crime, told police she knew Berlusconi, the claim set in motion a chain of events that would bring about the mogul’s downfall. Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, left, greets Berlusconi during a meeting in Sirte on 10 February 2004

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The former Italian prime minister with George W Bush, right, and first lady Laura Bush, on his arrival at Bush’s Prairie Chapel Ranch in Texas in 2003 My experience of true love has been magnified by cultural difference but there’s a universal lesson (Picture: James Appleton)