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Why business partnerships strain even the strongest friendships

I started this company with my best friend twenty years ago and now we barely speak because every business decision feels personal and every personal issue affects the business.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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The intimacy that enabled partnership becomes the vulnerability that threatens it, as business decisions become tests of personal loyalty.

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