“asking for help is like oh something's really wrong that's very shameful and we haven't come out of that yet there isn't yet permission to be nerds and study relating with as much intensity as we study business”

Give yourself permission to be a nerd about relating

It's normal to obsess over pricing experiments and marketing funnels, but studying how to relate to a partner is treated as shameful weakness. The same nerd energy poured into the business gets withheld from the relationship that actually keeps a solo founder sane.