According to most EU country’s law, you and your “husband” are not married. I believe you either get married or have your child obtain an Italian passport which makes your partner the father of a EU citizen and should make things easier.
I’d say you continue until you find someone who will do what ever it takes. I’m from a super lefty city in Europe and met my now wife on a holiday in Asia. I had my dream job and never wanted to leave my hometown but decided to leave it because I simply loved my wife too much not to at least give it a try. We now still live in Asia (which I don’t like too much) and have two kids. I’m happy and don’t regret a thing despite all the hardships. So stay positive and keep an open mind.
I’m German / Senegalese, my wife is Chinese and we live in Hong Kong. It’s been not been a problem to not have a family network around us but mainly because we are fortunate to have nanny’s and also because our own families aren’t a really supportive to begin with. Our kids are trilingual (Mandarin, German and English). They speak all languages fluently but it was much harder than I thought it would be. German is my mother tongue and yet it took a lot of effort from my side to get the kids to speak it natively. We go to Germany around 1-2 months a year and I speak and read to them in German only. My wife did the same with mandarin and it was just as hard because English is so so dominant. with regards to identification it’s also not easy. We saw that being half Chinese “only”, the Chinese always consider them to be foreigners and always make comments how good their Chinese is as foreigners. In Germany my kids are simply “German” and my kids identify pretty strongly as German. They also identify as Hong Kongers though and also hold the passport. I recommend to travel as much as possible to your home country and read lots of stories in your target language. That helped a lot for us.
German here from Berlin. I have lived in many countries on all continents (based in Hong Kong at the moment). I asked myself this question when my first child was born (due to making a will and having to figure out where I want to be buried) and came to a definite yes as an answer. I know there are many things that one can complain about but the more places I see in the world the more I see how good I had it in Berlin. Wouldn’t want to grow old in other parts of Germany, but Berlin, hell yeah:)