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How creative partnerships handle unequal recognition

My creative collaborator and I have been working together for years but recently I've started getting more recognition and opportunities, and there's an awkwardness between us that we're both pretending isn't there. I want to address it but I'm not sure how to bring up success and jealousy without damaging what we've built.

Juana
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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Professional success is creating relational imbalance in a partnership that was built on equality.

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