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When business partners in trades face unequal workload and decision-making power

My business partner and I started this custom furniture shop five years ago and we've always split things fifty-fifty but he's been taking on higher-end clients while I handle the production work and now there's this weird tension where he's making the real money decisions and I'm basically becoming his employee. We keep saying we're equals but the math doesn't add up anymore and neither of us knows how to talk about it.

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Your equal partnership is quietly turning into you working for your partner.

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