My business partner and I started this company as equals but somewhere along the way I became the one who handles all the difficult conversations with employees and clients while she focuses on the creative work and I'm starting to resent that we never actually decided this division of labor. We both just fell into these roles and now I don't know how to bring it up without sounding like I'm attacking her for avoiding conflict.
More people experience this than they realize.
Two people have unconsciously created an unfair distribution of emotional labor that neither wants to acknowledge directly.
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