illustration of woman and man fighting
The author kept fighting with her business partner-boyfriend.
  • Early in the pandemic, I joined my boyfriend's film production company, and we grew it together.
  • We began fighting a lot and felt misaligned in both our professional and our romantic relationship.
  • We broke up soon after I finally quit the company.

We met six months before the pandemic. I was working part time for a fashion company, and he had the bare bones of his own film-production business.

We fell in love and, within a couple of months, started working together. He insisted I'd make a great producer, and I insisted I hated producing because I studied film in college.