Hello, if anyone has some time to talk with me, I’d really appreciate it. It’s quite a long story, but basically, my partner and I (we’re just friends, business owners together) have been working on this one project for about 10 years now. And about two months ago, things really started to kick off. We were suddenly dealing with huge amounts of money. It was amazing! We’d spent so long working towards this! But unfortunately, around then, her husband died. Very suddenly.

Now, we’ve always known when success came, it would be around the clock work for like…six months.

Obviously that isn’t possible for her right now. But I don’t think either of us want the whole thing to fall through, so I need to keep moving forward and making choices. How do I delicately approach this? Here’s what I’m thinking;

I wanted to check in and see how you are doing, and how you are feeling about this project. From how you’ve been acting recently, I am assuming that you’d like business to continue as normal. I hope that is the case, I hope this work is a refuge for you. But if it’s not, if there’s anything you just don’t want to deal with, or if you need a break entirely, feel free to let me know.

I appreciate all the work you are continuing to do, it’s all coming together very well, I think this are going in a very positive direction.

Obviously there are some practical things that still need doing. Things are clearly ramping up at the moment. It seems like we have moved into a pattern where I’m handling more of the day to day stuff and running it by you when it’s more developed. You still have veto power, I’m just not expecting you to be hands on with development. this seems to be the direction we are moving in, do feel free to let me know how that sits with you. I don’t want you to feel cut out in any way, this is your project and always will be. I just don’t want to put more work on your plate.

If you’d rather discuss this over the phone we can, email is great too, or we don’t have to discuss it at all. It’s your choice. I just wanted to share my perspective and hopefully give some clarity as to where we are.