Sometimes the choice is difficult because both sides contain something you love.
You are responsible to a person, and to a promise. To the work you built, and to the people the work affects.
A clean answer would let you preserve every loyalty. This decision will not.
You may be tempted to call one value false so that the other becomes easy. But the pain may be evidence that several values are real. Neither silence nor speed removes the cost.
Stay with the question.
Before deciding, say plainly what each path protects and what each path risks. Ask whom you have listened to, who will carry the consequences, and which responsibility you would still recognise after the immediate discomfort has passed.
Clarity does not always feel peaceful. Sometimes it is the willingness to act without pretending the loss is imaginary.
Arjuna’s battlefield in the Bhagavad Gita begins with conflicting loyalties, not a lack of feeling. The conversation does not make the people before him disappear. It asks him to see clearly enough to take responsibility for action.