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When business partners avoid discussing unequal contributions

My business partner and I started with a 50/50 split three years ago but I've been doing 70% of the work for the last year and we both know it but neither of us has brought it up because we're afraid it will destroy what we've built. We keep saying 'we' when describing accomplishments but I can see in her face that she knows and I know that she knows I know.

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You're doing most of the work in a supposedly equal partnership, and you're both too scared to say it out loud.

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