A husband is forever

Adriana speaks to me again, this time of her husband: living proof that eternal love truly exists.

Today Adriana wants to tell me about her husband, a person with whom she lived moments of true happiness — and it is certainly not easy to hear such words nowadays. Sadly, Adriana’s husband died young of cancer.

Adriana tells me that in Italy the medicine her husband needed did not yet exist, and he had to buy it in Switzerland at an exorbitant cost. “It was a real ordeal”, Adriana says. When her husband understood he had little time left, he said to the doctor: “why can Adriana not die with me?”. The doctor rebuked him, telling him not to be selfish.

Adriana is keen to explain that it was not selfishness on her husband’s part: he knew her well and knew how much she needed his presence. Adriana is insecure, shy and very sensitive. Her husband was everything to her — he was the one who gave her certainties and strength of spirit.