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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 started being people who just happen to work together. We're successful but we miss each other and don't know how to find our way back without risking what we've built.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Success has created distance where intimacy once lived, and neither person knows how to bridge professional necessity with personal longing.

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