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When mentoring relationships lose their purpose but continue out of habit

My startup advisor and I have been working together for a year but our communication has become purely transactional and I think we're both just going through the motions of a mentoring relationship that isn't really serving either of us anymore. Neither of us has acknowledged that the dynamic has changed, and I don't know if we should fix it or end it.

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Your mentoring relationship has gone flat, and neither of you will say whether to fix it or end it.

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