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When creative partnerships reach their natural endpoint

My creative collaborator and I have been working together for three years and we're both growing artistically but in different directions and neither of us wants to say out loud that maybe we've outgrown this partnership. Our recent projects feel forced and we're both being polite about it instead of honest.

Juana
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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Two people who have grown together are now growing apart, but their care for each other makes it difficult to acknowledge that the collaboration may have served its purpose.

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