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When creative partnerships develop unequal power dynamics over time

My creative collaborator and I have been working together for three years and our process used to feel balanced but now it feels like they're always the one with the vision and I'm just executing it. When I try to bring up my ideas, the conversation somehow always circles back to their direction.

Juana
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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

A collaborative relationship has quietly shifted into hierarchy without either person explicitly choosing or acknowledging the change.

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