thanks everyone. I appreciate your sane advice. My anxiety level is through the roof. It's not because of the contract, it's because I feel angry at my former friend and I feel like I am over a barrel. I have negotiated contracts and have had contracts on a handshake with no problem for the last 16 years. But I don't trust him -- because he doesn't trust me. He speaks to me with either aggression or manipulation and then tempers it with sweet talk trying to get me to see "reason". He can't get it that just like he's protecting his interests I have to protect my own. He wants to "negotiate" until I give in. He doesn't get that I don't want to "negotiate" forever that at one point, he has to either say "yes" or "no". That there are certain things that are non-negotiable for me. Oh God, I cannot even write about it because I get so anxious that I want to give up on my entire life.