Why do we love people who are so awful to us

How can we love people who only pretend to care about us, who are only around when it's convenient?
People who claim to care, but they are NEVER there for you, people who seem to think they're the only individual who feels human emotion in the entire world, so everyone else is just like a tool or an object.
Some people are just damaged like that - but why do we keeping caring about them, even when we learn their true nature? Why do we keep hoping they'll be nicer to us?
We think they're broken because no one ever truly loved them - that if we just love them enough, unconditionally, support them, help them, it will fix whatever is broken in them, and then they'll stop mistreating us. But they don't. They're hollow. How do you stop caring?

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