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When business partnerships strain close friendships

My best friend and I started a side business together and now money and friendship dynamics are getting tangled up in ways that feel weird and we're both dancing around the awkwardness instead of addressing it directly. The business is doing okay but the friendship feels strained.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Avoiding difficult conversations preserves neither the friendship nor the business.

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