counterpoint (слэш)

They told you it would hurt, they told you it would never last, they told you that you would never be happy. They told you not to bother. They told you to do it right, to do anything on earth but this: be anything but this. You tried to listen.
But they never told you—that even though you know all of that, even though you saw the house on fire down the street—you would still love him anyway.
What the hell? You feel like they probably could have mentioned it.