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When business partnerships strain lifelong friendships

My best friend and I started a business together three years ago and somewhere along the way we stopped talking about the hard stuff and now we're both resentful about different things but still showing up to work together every day pretending everything's fine. I can feel us both pulling back and I'm scared we're going to lose the friendship and the business.

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Two people are discovering that avoiding difficult conversations doesn't make them disappear, it just lets them calcify into resentment.

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