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When business partners avoid difficult conversations about shared struggles

My business partner and I started this company because we shared values about work-life balance but three years in we're both burning out and neither of us wants to be the one to say we need to scale back because we're afraid it means we're failing.

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Two people committed to an ideal are discovering that admitting the gap between vision and reality requires a courage that threatens their shared identity.

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