There’s nothing quite like the energy of a creative partnership. It’s different from an “I love you” partnership and different from a “you’re a great friend” partnership. Those partnerships are overflowing with encouragement and support, but they’re also easy to dismiss because, “you’re just saying that because you love me.”
The Creative Partner says, “I don’t want to sleep with you, and I believe in you.” They provide a cocoon of psychological safety so that one can take risks that one might not otherwise take – it helps when you know you’re in this together. Creative Partners are also able to see an idea for what it is without the emotional attachment that unavoidably comes with being the originator of the idea.
Creative Partners aren’t easy to find, in fact, it’s a bit like happiness – once you go searching for it, it vanishes. The goal then is to recognise those people in your life as they serendipitously enter and allow them to nourish and fill your soul so when they inevitably exit your life for whatever reason, you carry a piece of them with you forever.