Needed: Advice, Insight or Encouragement.

Let's see..where do I begin? When I thought about starting a t-shirt company 3years ago, I brought up the idea to a very good friend that was pretty interested in it and wanted to be a partner. At the time I had a little money to either put it into a business or put it toward a down payment on a home. Well my partner brought up the idea of me moving into her new home, we start the business and go from there. So I did that. Not long after, we got our equipment and began doing shirts for local schools, teams, and bars. The work was not steady. We were so green when it came to business it was pathetic. We found out rather quickly that it took a lot more money than what we started with. We were able to purchase our major pieces of screen printing machinery but we did not take into consideration the programs, the shirts, screens, ink, new printer for the computer, transparency's and all the things needed to screenprint shirts that came from our pockets. During the course of the 2 and a half years we were in business, we were able to purchase all the equipment that it takes to run a successful screen printing buisness. We began to talk about starting own t-shirt line. So we began working on designs and even purchased a website. Two weeks after purchasing the website, she decided that she did not want to continue. Yep! I can't say I was totally surprised because I could see she was becoming less and less interested in our business. She felt it was interfering with her relationship. I understand that relationships are important and should not be put on a back burner but com'on, learn to juggle your professional life and your personal life. Anyway, we had accumulated about 7 thousand dollars on my credit card for business purposes. I explained to her that we needed to attend some festivals and make some money and take care of all the debt that WE accumulated. Her solution was that she would let me walk away with all the equipment for the debt. She just wants nothing to do with it. I went ahead and let her walk away. Now guys, here I am with some pretty cool designs all this equipment for screenprinting, a website that needs work and a whole lot of drive to continue. I can't understand how easy it was for her to walk away from it after working and sacrificing to get all the equipment we needed and to just let it go. I told her that I could not walk away that easily and I was going to go at it alone. Oh yeah, I have to find a house now to live in and run my buisness out of and all with a full time job...LMFAO. All i can do is just laugh to keep from crying. Any words of advice would be much appreciated. I would really like to hear from my fellow screenprinters who are doing it alone. One thing I know for certain, it's not going to be easy at all.

Thank you,

AP