This is an update to my last post about my business partner and I splitting up.

So the week he resigns he sends a formal resignation to our lawyer without even trying to talk to me, notifies all our clients he’s leaving while also throwing me under the bus, also posts on our social media that he’s leaving and also throws me under the bus there as well. As much as I wanted to drive to his house and beat his ass, I took the high road instead of arguing with him. Keep in mind there’s little to no money to even fight over and missing 1 payroll was the whole reason for this.

Also because he sent a formal resignation, notified all our clients, and blasted on social media. Our lawyer told him there’s no mediation which he was hoping for. He already laid out his terms for leaving which I agree on and told clients I am remaining as sole owner. Our lawyer let him know that if he wants to negotiate at all he’d have to hire is own lawyer(he doesn’t have the money for). He thought he was smart by formally notifying our lawyer before even trying to talk me. But he shot himself in the foot.

2 days later I book the 2 biggest clients this year to date. 2 big deposits hit the bank account and I could’ve EASILY told our accountant to the run missed payroll from the week prior. 2 days after that a big fortune 500 client inquires with us. If my business partner didn’t drop the bombshell about leaving and pointing blame on me, I would’ve said that was a great week. I want to throw it in his face and say “KARMA is a bitch huh? you decided to quit at the PERFECT time for me to keep 100% of this work that was just booked”

At times I feel bad that his family has to suffer and pinch pennies during this time. He was a great friend and we were in each others weddings and our friendship goes back to college. I sent him an email apologizing that things didn’t work out and we just have to agree to disagree, despite our NOW differences we had a great run, and that I appreciated his friendship. He replies with a nasty bitter email again pointing the finger at me. I was reading his emails to clients and he was bad mouthing me to current clients pretty much saying he does all this work and I just benefit from all his hard work. Just reading that makes me angry and want to give him my 2 cents to win the argument. It just feels like trying to get the last word in during a bad breakup, but knowing trying to get the last word and win the argument does nothing for me.

But I’ll take the highroad, keep 100% of the business and 100% of the income going forward, and let him hold onto that anger towards me so he can at least feel like he wins in his mind.