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Wow. I recommend the LW start finding what humor she can in dodging this bullet. It will make getting past this and putting it into proper perspective easier. Might I suggest you get the ball rolling by referring to him always as Saint Ex from the moment you dump him until the day you honestly feel relieved to have escaped the situation with your self-respect and confidence intact.
She tried. He tried...or didn't...either way he still views her as a morally inferior person. And that is bulls**t. He's not but let's be honest because all of us see someone as inferior to us at some point in our lives if not every day as you read of others in the news or watch the newest reality show. But most of us don't punish others because we think we're better -- something kicks in and reminds us that there is a whole lot of subjective to life and the person we're judging may be thinking the same thing about us.
Saint Ex doesn't necessarily need a makeover of his sexual sensibilities, though that might mean he'd have a little more fun. He needs to mature. He needs to learn how to be kind to people even when he disagrees with them so much that he wishes to limit his interaction with them. And speaking from experience, he needs to learn how rare love is. (It's only cliche to those who haven't learned what it is.) It's probable he will be like me and so many other people and have to lose someone he really loved to understand how stupid it is to care who they've shared themselves with in the past when they've chosen to share themselves only with you. When you're "the one" who cares about all of "the others"?
