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Scenario

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.

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.

Your guide for this
Rabia
Rabia works with people navigating exactly this kind of situation.
Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Adolescence and the parent-teen relationship?”

Peri

Peri can explain why this happens, help you decide if this is the right situation for you, and point toward the right journey or coach.

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