My romantic partner and I are both musicians and we've been trying to write songs together but we have completely different relationships to vulnerability in our art and every time we try to create something intimate it becomes this careful negotiation about what we're willing to expose. We're more guarded with each other creatively than we are with strangers.
More people experience this than they realize.
Two people are discovering that emotional intimacy and creative intimacy require different kinds of trust.
“Where Are You with Creativity and psychology?”
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