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Scenario

When business partnerships strain longtime friendships

My best friend and I started a small business together three years ago and lately we've been making decisions differently — she wants to stay small and sustainable, I want to grow faster — and we're both pretending it's just about strategy when it feels like it's really about what kind of life we each want. We've been friends for fifteen years and business partners for three and I can feel something shifting between us that we're not naming.

More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Two people are discovering that their deepest values about work and life are diverging, and the business has become the arena where this plays out while the friendship bears the emotional cost.

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 Deep friendship — what it takes?”

Peri

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