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.
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.
“Where Are You with Deep friendship — what it takes?”
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.