In any case, valuable lesson learned today, and proof again that none of us are free of making mistakes, even with the ones we care for. Sometimes even with the best of intentions, things don't always go right, and a lot of it comes from not thinking things through.
In life you'll go through many partnerships, marriage, friendships, and business related ones. All of them have their differences but all of them have their baseline similarities that make them all connect. Sometimes we forget that there's someone on the other end waiting for you to take a step, so that they can take a step too, and thus, working in tandem you make something succeed.
The one thing that I've always based my partnerships on is friendships. Many say you can't mix business with pleasure, I say you can. In a world where we practice openness, transparency, and honesty, why would the two not be able to mix together?
When you forget to practice those key factors, even if you mean no ill will, just forgetting can still cause disruption, hurting those you care for, and causing you both to misstep. It'll happen from time to time, no one is immune from it ever happening, the goal is to reduce the chances of it happening. Even in our busy lives, as we move from project to project, place to place, we must always keep our partners in mind, no matter how little of a thing you might think something is.
I say this as an open apology to my partner, someone who's been in my life for what seems like a long time, someone with whom I've established great synergy with, and in turn highly respect and care for. I'm sorry, I f'd up!
I also encourage those in existing partnerships, where you both have agreed to move together, that you remember one another as you each take your steps. The seeds of disruption are easy to plant, difficult to remove. We're all human, mistakes, happen, but in dealing with them you find that happy place again.
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