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When business partnerships strain longtime friendships

My best friend and I started a business together three years ago and somewhere along the way we stopped being honest with each other about what we actually want from this thing. Now we're successful but I feel like I don't know who she is anymore and I'm scared to say anything because it might destroy everything we've built.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Success can paradoxically create distance when shared dreams evolve in different directions and neither person feels safe to acknowledge the change.

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