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When friends can't move forward on shared dreams

My best friend and I have been planning to start a business together for three years and we keep getting excited and making plans and then one of us gets scared and we back away and now I'm wondering if we're just afraid of succeeding or if we're afraid of what it would do to our friendship.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The fear of changing a cherished dynamic can paralyze people from pursuing what they both want.

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