Originally Posted by Turnbull
I believe Michael really loved Kay at the beginning--before Vito was shot. You see him actually being playful with Kay in their hotel room in a deleted scene. But, after he killed Sol and Mac, and Sicily, and Apollonia was killed, Michael was a changed man. There's no romance in the scene where he woos Kay in New Hampshire--it was a business negotiation, Kay was another step in his obsessive quest for "legitimacy"--a WASP wife to bear his children and bolster his "legitimate" front. Whatever remaining feelings he had for Kay were subordinate to his selfish personal plans.

I reckon he was surprisingly honest The real shock was Kay marrying him

Surely the family could have found Michael a nice Italian origin bride, suitable Mob Boss wife! to bear his children

WASP wife didn't bolster his "legitimate" front. Geary didn't hold back with his insulting and disparaging slurs of him and his family