My songwriting partner and I have been friends since college and musical collaborators for five years, but lately our personal relationship has gotten complicated in ways that are bleeding into our creative work. We're both trying to act professional during writing sessions but there's this undercurrent of emotional stuff that's making it hard to be vulnerable in our songs, which is exactly what our music needs to be good.
More people experience this than they realize.
Creative partnership requires emotional openness that becomes complicated when the personal relationship between collaborators is itself in flux.
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