"He was very difficult to deal with anyway because he knows nothing about what it takes to make a song - He writes tons of lyrics (some very good) but his communication throughout the whole collab was not good and I was left holding the bag. Lyrics only writers sometimes do not understand what it takes to get a song ready for the masses to hear. It does not happen without any effort and sometimes takes a little bit of money also."

Jane, here you have hit upon the main part of this. You really have to know and ACTUALLY LIKE someone to have a decent writing relationship. When I first moved to Nashville, I noticed an interesting phenomenon. I would attend many NUMBER ONE parties (where a publishing company and a PRO like ASCAP, BMI, SESAC" would have a big party with food, drinks and speeches to celebrate a song going to number one on the charts. An interesting aspect was often when two writers were celebrating, I noticed that they wouldn't take pictures with each other. There always seemed to be other people in the picture, which would be normal, but even in small groups they wouldn;t get very close to each other. I asked a friend of mine who knew a lot of people and he said "Oh they had a fallling out years ago, and since it took years for this song to get cut, they no longer even speak to each other. So you really have to build a strong relationship FIRST before you dive into songwriting.

I've known people to torpedo cuts by their attitude and not only take themselves down, but guilt by association, takes their co-writers down with them as well. You can never control other people, so it's best to have some solid people you are friends with before you dive into co-writing.

On your particular situation, I would give you one piece of advice. WRITE MORE SONGS. You are not married to this person. It is one song and almost ALL songs are just good ideas at the time. We write them, sometimes get excited, some times are cool, most times are forgotten not long after. Move on. If he contacts you and wants to do something, fine, but if not, go to other things and forget it. Time to write something else.

MAB