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When business partnerships strain longtime friendships

My business partner and I have been friends for fifteen years but now that we're working together the friendship feels strained - we can't separate business disagreements from personal hurt feelings. We started this company to work with someone we trust but now we're afraid we're going to lose both the business and the friendship.

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Two people are discovering that different relationship contexts require different skills, and their historical intimacy is both an asset and a liability.

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