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When business partnerships strain lifelong friendships

My best friend and I started a business together three years ago and lately we disagree on everything — how much to reinvest, whether to hire help, even basic day-to-day decisions. We're both avoiding the bigger conversation about whether we want the same things anymore, but our friendship feels like it's hanging by a thread.

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Two people are discovering that shared dreams can evolve in different directions, and they're afraid that naming this truth will cost them both the business and the friendship.

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