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When friendship complicates business partnership discussions

My friend and I have been talking about starting a studio together for months, but every conversation about money and creative control turns into us reassuring each other that we want the same things when I'm pretty sure we don't, and I don't know if we're protecting the friendship or avoiding the real work.

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The desire to preserve harmony is preventing the necessary negotiations that would either strengthen or clarify the impossibility of the partnership.

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