My business partner and I started our consulting firm right after we both got divorced, and now that we're two years in and both dating again, we're realizing we built this whole professional identity around being 'the divorced women who figured it out' and we don't know how to evolve the business as we evolve personally.
More people experience this than they realize.
A partnership built on shared crisis identity is struggling to adapt as both people grow beyond the narrative that founded their collaboration.
“Where Are You with Life transitions as identity events?”
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.