Just saw your edit. > Her argument was a sort of "given that you aren't going to anywhere with me, I want to quit of the startup" I have a friend who runs a v

Just saw your edit. > Her argument was a sort of "given that you aren't going to anywhere with me, I want to quit of the startup" I have a friend who runs a very successful IT company in Tokyo. When it was first going, his girlfriend came over to his company and helped make it work for less than she was being paid before. A great girl. A couple years in, they were having a fight outside of the office. They go into the office and he asks her for some documents or some such, and she kind of blows him off. And there's other staff in the office. He says, "Let's speak outside." They walk outside, and he says, "If you ever pull this kind of shit and bring our personal life into work again, you're fired on the spot. We can fight after work. Now we're going inside and doing our jobs." After that - no problems, the company runs like a well-oiled machine, even when they're having personal problems. This is very important - it's dangerous enough to mix work and romance, you need to do everything you can to keep them separated and not have her use work as romantic leverage.