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When business partnerships strain close friendships

My best friend and I started a business together two years ago and somewhere along the way we stopped being friends and became just business partners who are polite to each other. We're both pretending it's fine but we both know something died and neither of us knows how to get it back.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Success has somehow created distance where there used to be intimacy.

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