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When friends can't move forward on shared dreams they've talked about for years

My best friend and I have been planning to start a business together for three years and we keep having all these conversations about it but somehow we never actually do anything concrete and I'm starting to wonder if we're both just too scared to admit we don't actually want the same things. We've invested so much emotional energy into this dream that backing out feels like it would change our friendship forever.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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You're both caught between the fear of disappointing each other and the fear of committing to something that might not be what either of you actually wants.

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