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When business partnerships reveal unspoken differences in conflict styles

My best friend and I started a business together three years ago and we're successful but we've never talked about how differently we handle conflict and now there's this tension that shows up in every decision we make. We both feel it but neither of us knows how to name it without risking everything we've built.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Two people who care deeply about their shared creation are discovering they have fundamentally different ways of navigating disagreement, and the fear of addressing this difference is starting to threaten what they're trying to protect.

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