There is a particular kind of exhaustion that comes with running a business for a long time. Not the tiredness of working hard, most founders are comfortable with that. It is the tiredness of being the person who has to hold everything in their head at once. The operational problems. The staff. The clients. The cashflow. The deal that is half done. The conversation that needs to happen but keeps getting pushed to next week.

The financial questions in a family business transition are genuinely solvable. Structure the ownership correctly. Agree on a fair price, or a fair mechanism if no price is being paid. Sort the tax position. Appoint the right advisers. These things take time and they require careful thinking, but they have answers. There are frameworks. There are precedents. There is a path through.