Natural to protect one of your own. Never to wanting to believe one of your own is guilty (he would never do that, she would never cheat me).

When guilt is obvious, hell breaks loose on many levels, most of all for making yourself look like a fool protecting them.

Sorry Yalie.

Faith and love of others knows no mileage nor bounds. That's simply the way it is.
dogzapper

After the game is over, the king and the pawn go into the same box.
Italian Proverb