I do pity him - is that compassionate? Or condescending? Maybe I'm deluding myself, but the goal of the last few interactions was not to tear him a new one, but to help him understand himself better, and me as well. To show that I do not hate him despite what he's done. I don't want to punish him or get revenge, I just want to move on and get away from him. I admit that I do get a little hung up on The Truth, because how do you have even a business-like relationship with someone whose sense of reality is so corrupted by self-deceit, and who projects that onto you to control the situation and f*ck with your own sense of reality?
