God, I wish I could read this shit for my own amusement and maybe to tear him a new one, but I know you'll never tell and I got no time to search for his shit, LOL
And no, not alike at all. You're beautiful and brilliant and for all your pain, I think you're actually looking for someone to love and accept you as is. I suspect behind the hard NYC exterior, you're a big (little) squishy thing.
You're not the first woman to tell some shumuck what they wanted to hear for a moment of affirmation. But make no mistake, someday, in the not too distant future, you'll be the toast of Manhattan with Paul at a party for your NYT bestseller and he'll still be peddling word salad.
I don;t like this guy, he messed with my Medium daughter!