its a very hard desicion to make. i have a partner but for the most part what we do are completly seperate i do candles she does smelly jellies, and lotion sprays we work together on lip balms and and we each have our own soaps. it gives us each our own things so down the road if we did decide to split its not gonna kill either one of us to do our own thing but at the same time we both have equal say in anything business wise. neither one of us decides anything without talking to the other one first. but it might be easier for us because we weren't 'best' friends before we started this we met through our boyfriends who are friends started hanging out to get our kids aquainted built a friendship around then and then built a business relationship on top of that. our friendship has gotten stronger through all this but its not effecting business at all. i'll have to let her know about this thread so she can hopefully put her 2 cents in. (i just hope she feels the same way i do lol)