Sigh...I wish I had seen your email before it was sent...I see lots of potential fire power there to set off his keg o' dynomite!
But what is done is done...next time follow the 48 hr rule...sit on it...if he bugs you block phone calls and emails...don't answer the door!
There is nothing worse then a MCL'er than an angry one...
The email was factual...but to him it wasn't...he feels you should trust him (probably because he had been paying the bills), he doesn't like that you have friends that you take advice from (even most reasonable people don't like advice from friends that go contrary to what they are suggesting), he doesn't like the fact that you are thinking of all of his possible tricks and working around them...basically the entire email was a slap in the face to him...not that it isn't deserved but it doesn't create the needed response for you...that of leaving you alone in peace!
Had you kept stalling for the lawyer, yes he would get angry but you would have a deflection point...you didn't have the papers in your hand...he doesn't NEED to know you had YOUR mind made up already...what if the lawyer had come back with, "You can sign this but we need another agreement to ensure your living situation in the event of a default on your current home"...then there would be some negotiating...which he may or may not have agreed to but at least he couldn't say YOU DID IT TO HIM AGAIN!
Punkin...what's done is done...not judging you but just trying to help you see how things can be done to provide the same outcome with possible smoother path...
Don't let H provoke you into giving a reply...avoid making decisions with him pressuring you...and anytime your decision isn't going to be what he wants...deflect, deflect, deflect...get the lawyer to take the heat...
I hope he does find a new passion soon and not one of making your life more of a living nightmare then it already is.
