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When business partnerships strain close friendships

My best friend and I started a business together three years ago and it's successful but we've stopped actually talking to each other about anything real — just logistics and safe topics — and I think we're both afraid that if we address what's happening between us personally it might ruin what we've built professionally.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Success can create its own form of distance when the stakes feel too high to risk authentic conversation.

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