I own a business, let's call it Hike. I have cousins who are IT whizzes. One of them, Andy, is providing web dev services with his siblings as "employees". andy and I agreed in Dec 2024 that we will go 50-50 on a legaltech venture, let's call it Oho, with him as my tech cofounder, and me as CEO and fundraiser. We agreed that it takes priority over Hike, because I was not ready to pay a fee for Hike's website and sales funnel backend to be built, and his alternative was to have me pay him a commission from sales, which he started out wanting 20% then asked for more, even once suggesting he should be an official business partner. As I sell services, I didn't see that as fair. After we agreed he will build an MVP for Oho by April so I could fundraise, he started talking about my vision for Hike and his passion towards helping me achieve it. He convinced me to pay him a discounted 2500 AED monthly, and drew up a "contract" on 11 Jan 2025 for what he called growth services, including things I didn't need because Hike is an agency experienced in them, but he insisted on advising on them. Due to cashflow issues, I said I will pay him as and when I can, with his payments prioritized, and I'll be transparent about what comes in, even from sources other than his funnel. A week later, he was hesitating on getting started, and sent screenshots of a client who paid his full fee in advance. So I said I'll pay the full 5k monthly instead, as and when I have cashflow. He agreed, then built only the basic website in 2 months. In March, he admitted he did nothing for Oho, and had decided to put it off until Hike was profitable. His custom funnel engine with very granular user tracking wasn't ready by June. He blames content delays on my end, though I had sent it in April/May. On June 20, he decided to put 7-days payment terms on his invoices. If not paid, the website will be suspended. I told him I can't do 7 days. He told me I mismanage finances "like his dad". He also was getting increasingly condescending about how I don't understand tech (FYI, I built my first site on WordPress way back before AI). End of June, I downgraded to "maintenance" (at 1k aed) since my cashflow was terrible, given we hadn't launched ANYthing in 5 months and a total of 25k paid. On 14 Aug, 7 days after invoice date, he suspended the website. Due to this, Hike failed a bank loan inspection. He says it's not his fault since I didn't explicitly ask for an extension, even though I said over and over I had legal trouble and needed time to pay, and he had said it was automated and "out of his hands". My husband (my silent partner in H) paid the 1k fee to reinstate it. Now I don't want Andy's service that Hike (as a business) spent 27k AED on, and he's saying I'm acting like a hurt girl, when he did nothing wrong. He says his funnel is now running, so I should continue. He says he's doing us a favor, not charging us for the source code to migrate the basic website, sans database structure. He also called me a narcissist. AITA?