Not far off.....

lucielle

Do you need the business partner?  It sounds like they’re creating more work and it’s costing. What do they bring into the business?  Are they cost effective?  

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lucielle

From your comments it sounds like your business partner doesn’t do very much and takes you for granted. Please correct me if I’m wrong. 

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lucielle

If you do most of the work it doesn’t sound like a partnership. 

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badmemory

It sounds to me like she is becoming a bit of an embarassment.

dawnybabes

Do you need your business partner ? 

triple_choc_chip

Sage advice from my Grandfather in 1984 when I started my first business: “Choose your business partners more carefully than your life partners because they are much harder to separate from.”  
My life came unstuck when my life partner was also my business partner and we split.  It took 10 years to get straight from that and it’s what bought me to MSE.
I think your idea of starting something else first is a good idea so that you have an income cushion when/if you extricate yourself from the partnership.

badmemory

Of course the big problem is that partnership accounts are a lot harder to do from what I've read.  I read quite a bit on the cutting tax bit of the forum.   Another reason for getting out from under.

kiss_me_now9

Sounds like a difficult situation Emma. 

badmemory

No you are the one who is right.  To stay with someone like that is just laying youself open to being really at least misused if not abused.

ETA  I suspect we have both found ourselves with cheaters at some point.  That way does not happiness lie.

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I've been awake since 3 am. I'll pay for it tomorrow afternoon. I'm currently in Blackpool with my OH his DD,  my DD, and my niece. We've had a lovely day and went to watch Dirty Dancing. I fell asleep with my clothes on and woke up at 3 a.m. I can't sleep now! 
I didn't go to bed until midnight and so I'm wondering how I'm going to function on three hours of sleep. 
My business partner is causing me stress. Last year I filed self-assessment tax returns. It wasn't hard. It's due again soon and she is stressed. I think it's probably because she doesn't understand them. I've been roped into helping her file hers. I think the anxiety comes from when she was self-employed and selling makeup. She gave up her job and the makeup thing didn't do very well and she had to borrow money from her dad to pay her bills. She didn't bother to file a self assessment last year. 

I've put in an application for a £750 research grant so hopefully, that should come and open a door to something else. She'll be taking half of it so I need to speak to her about sharing any subsequent work, or I'll be left to do the lot for half the reward. 

Listed something on eBay. Bought it from the charity shop for £3. It's a truck that retails at £80. 6 watchers and two days to go. 

First Sunday off tomorrow. Bring it on! Even if I will be suffering the effects of insomnia.