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When creative partnerships strain close friendships

My best friend and I started a creative project together two years ago with so much excitement, but now we're both secretly resentful about different things and neither of us wants to be the one to say it's not working. We keep showing up and going through the motions because we don't know how to untangle the friendship from the collaboration.

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