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When business partnerships strain close friendships

My best friend and I started a business together three years ago and now we're successful but we can barely talk to each other without it turning into some passive-aggressive dance about money and control. We both know we're ruining something precious but neither of us knows how to get back to why we started this.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Success can create new forms of distance between people who thought they knew how to be together.

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