I don’t think this is true, and I’ve actually made a lot of progress over the last year in delegating, systemizing, and generally having more free time. I was feeling more optimistic about the future than ever before - business was looking up, and I had a partner that I thought was understanding and tbh I thought I would marry. and now it’s just me and the company again.

I’m really, really, sad, and fuck i am struggling to get any of my work that’s piling up done.

Idk why I’m really posting this here but if any of you have gone through anything like this I’d love some outside perspectives

edit for clarity: romantic partner left me, not business partner. My business partner and I are still good.

Follow up edit: this community is great. Thanks for your kindness, everyone.

  • Andrew8490@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Different people have different goals in life. Some people dont understand or even want the sacrifice required to get your business off the ground and run it successfully. Definitely not possible working the standard 9-to-5. It will be very difficult if you are with a partner that is not willing to share that sacrifice with you, so understand that your respective goals in life choices must be aligned or it wont work, as you are witnessing yourself.

    Also, it is entirely OK to give you 100% to your business, at least for a period of your life. Forget the “balanced life” BS. I do not know any successful business onwer (and I know many) that didnt commit all the way. Success is amazing and very rewarding, but you gotta pay its toll in sweat and stress. No way around it. Is it worth it? That only you can answer… IMHO, yes.

    Cheer up though: your own business is not just a job: it is the materalization of your ambitions and desires in life. Focus on it, and one day the right partner with similar desires with come along.

  • joerover34@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    Right now is the absolute worst. 5 years from now you’ll look back and hardly remember this person. Just how life is, weird

  • dylanisaverage@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    Maybe instead of seeking pity from random people on the internet you should spend your time figuring out what happened and gaining clarification from the person that left you?

  • ronraxxx@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    Not trying to be a dick but you’re writing a post about getting dumped over your work/life balance and you immediately lament all the work that’s not getting done …

    Seems like your ex partner had some valid feelings of their own.

  • bulmrkt@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Which one is easier to replace? Your business or your girlfriend…

    What matters is that you achieve success and become financially free. Then you can do whatever you like.

    She can either build with a busy man or babysit a broke one.

  • gratefulgrenouille@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Thanks for sharing :) Glad you’ve been able to reclaim some of your life back and all the best with selling in the new year!

  • Isoldmykidforagram@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    She was very clearly unsupportive from the jump. Sometimes I sit and wonder if maybe I make my small business my whole life and maybe even kind of bore people with it, but true supporters and people who genuinely care for you won’t care, and they’ll be all bout your business too. My boyfriend is my number 1 supporter (along side my mother) and I couldn’t be more appreciative, tbh I can’t imagine him coming to me and telling me I’m “doing to much”.

  • Old-Interest-8176@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Men usually don’t want to marry a woman who has to take on the role of a dominant man all day to run a business