What would it take to lose your love?

I’m wondering what kind of secret or past experience a friend, family member, lover or mate could tell you that would result in you casting them aside? Do you believe that there is nothing that someone you love deeply could do to make you stop loving them?

I’ve been thinking about this because of an experience I had many years ago. The person I loved, at the time, told me that he had sexually abused his little sister. He was only slightly remorseful because, as he said, “She was adopted.” Even if that was an acceptable excuse (It sooooo wasn’t!) she was only a couple of years younger than him and was adopted when she was three months old.

His lack of remorse and ability to shrug it off as no big deal changed the way I felt about him, permanently. I tried to hang on in the relationship but his confession was constantly in the back of my mind. So, I guess, I did not truly love him unconditionally. I not only did not want him in my life, I truly did not love him anymore.

I wonder sometimes if it is possible to love unconditionally. If someone is a horrible person who commits horrible acts and has no remorse, can you continue to love them?