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When mentor relationships evolve beyond their original structure

My creative mentor and I have evolved into something more like peers over the past few years, but we still have the old dynamic where they give direction and I follow it, even though I now have strong opinions that conflict with theirs, and neither of us has acknowledged that the relationship has changed.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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The growth that the relationship enabled has outpaced the relationship's ability to contain and honor that growth.

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