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When business partnerships strain lifelong friendships

My best friend and I started a business together three years ago and it's doing well but we've never figured out how to handle conflict — we just avoid it until someone explodes — and now there's this big decision about expansion that we keep not talking about. I can feel us both getting resentful and I'm scared we're going to lose both the business and the friendship.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Two people who love each other are discovering that intimacy and professional partnership require different skills they don't have.

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