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When business partnerships change longtime friendships

My childhood friend and I started a business together three years ago and somewhere along the way we stopped being friends and started just being business partners who are polite to each other. We both feel it but neither of us knows how to talk about what happened or if we even want the friendship back.

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A friendship has been quietly sacrificed to professional dynamics, leaving both people grieving a relationship they're not sure how to reclaim.

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