Ok ladies how would you react if a male friend told you he loves you

If he knew I was married, and he would if he was my friend, then he just revealed a nasty aspect of himself that I would wish I hadn't learned. I'd be extremely disappointed in him, and I would be forced to drop him, because marriage is a lot more important than friendship, and I would know that my friend's secret wish is to destroy my marriage...or he wouldn't have told me.

Later on, I would be wondering if he was one of those scummy types who fixates on married women only because if can get them to cheat, he knows he can get sex without commitment.