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When business partnerships strain close friendships

My best friend and I started a business together three years ago and we're finally making money but somewhere along the way we stopped being friends and just became business partners and neither of us knows how to talk about it. We both feel it but we're scared that naming it will make us have to choose between the friendship and the company.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Success can create distance when the roles we play professionally begin to eclipse the intimacy that brought us together.

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