My songwriting partner and I have been friends since college, and our personal relationship gives us access to deep emotional material, but lately we can't tell if we're writing songs or having therapy sessions, and neither of us knows how to separate the friendship from the creative work anymore. Every creative critique feels personal.
More people experience this than they realize.
The intimacy that enables profound creative access becomes the same intimacy that makes aesthetic honesty emotionally dangerous.
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