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When creative partnerships develop rigid role divisions

My creative partner and I have been working together for three years and we've developed this dynamic where I generate most of the initial ideas and they refine and execute them, but lately I've been feeling like an idea factory rather than a true collaborator. The work is good but I'm losing the sense that we're creating something together and I don't know if they feel the same constraint or if this arrangement actually works better for them.

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You feel like an idea machine, not a real partner, and you don't know if your collaborator sees it too.

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