Infidelity is a difficult concept to tackle, but it has given many content and opinions in the history of television. One of the clearest and most recent examples is The Island of Temptations, the well-known reality show on Telecinco. In it, different couples must live separately on an island in the Dominican Republic, while the program tries to encourage them not to fall into the temptation of pairing them up with a multitude of singles.
This is a delicate matter, but one in which many people have been involved, affected or even identified. An example of this is the singer Carla Bruni, wife of former French president Nicolas Sarkozy and daughter of the pianist Marisa Borini and the guitarist Maurizio Remmert. Both were lovers between 1960 and 1967, while the artist remained married to the businessman and composer Alberto Bruni Tedeschi.
The Turin native visited Belve this week, a talk show on the public channel RAI, where she went with the intention of addressing controversial topics as the space schedule usually dictates. Once there, Bruni left some striking statements about adultery, downplaying infidelities within marriage. A fact that stands out about her considering her 16 years of marriage to the retired French politician.
“Adultery for me is not a sin, I am a daughter of that love. If it were physical adultery, I would endure it. But if she fell in love, no…” she explained. A fact that highlights Bruni’s lack of lightness regarding infidelity, although in this case she limits herself to the sexual act. A matter that the psychologist and psychoanalyst Elena Benvenuti has discussed in Vanity Fair Italia magazine. In her words, the emotional factor would be decisive in this breakdown of balance.
“Not without a certain cynicism, it must be said that in life it is good to train yourself to have a certain tolerance for betrayal, since it can occur within any relationship, from work to friendship, without forgetting family relationships. Starting with the relationship with parents, by whom a child can often feel betrayed, for example, in the difficult stage of adolescence. Returning to the statement of the Italian singer and model, it also remains to be seen if sex can be completely detached from emotions,” she said.
“Certainly, it is easier to forgive an infidelity purely related to the physical act, the erotic transgression and the supposedly uncontrollable impulse. It is also easier for the other person to ask for forgiveness in those cases. However, things get complicated when you cheat with emotional involvement, and while it is true that human beings can overcome even more serious traumas, infidelity in which love for another person is imposed necessarily requires a long healing process. and tortuous, marked by pain,” he expanded.
