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When business partnerships strain personal friendships despite company success

My co-founder and I started this company as friends but now every conversation feels like a negotiation and we're both keeping score of who contributes what. We're succeeding but losing our friendship and I don't know if we can have both or if we have to choose.

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Success can reveal that different relationships require different forms of care and attention that may compete with each other.

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