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When business partners develop unequal emotional labor without discussing it

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 clients and employees while they focus on the 'vision stuff' and I'm starting to resent it but I don't know how to bring it up without sounding like I'm attacking their contribution. We never explicitly agreed to this division of labor and I think they genuinely don't see how much emotional weight I'm carrying.

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You've quietly become the one handling every hard conversation, and it's wearing you down.

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