Anyone have any tactics or tips for trying to avoid absorbing your creative partner’s stress?

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Practice detached concern. Practice it until it becomes an immutable way of life.

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Wow!!!🚀

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Make a fist with your brain

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And that’s why this lady works at TMA. Love that line/idea!!!

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All suggestions are valid but I’d try to talk it out with them before it festers. Communication is crucial with partnerships.

Best of luck and hope your partner can get through whatever is bothering them in a healthy way.

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Oh man my partner is like that - if you find a solve let me know because it can be tiring to deal with.

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I screamed at my anxious creative partner and that solved it for me. Have not heard from them in seven years.

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Dune body shield.

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Deep breaths. And imagine there is an invisible, flexible (but impermeable) bubble around you.

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Be rubber, not glue

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Send them to therapy.

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Go fishing with them. Do something you can bond over that has nothing to do with work.

Happy hour? If by partner you mean business. If not, I think it would help for them to hang out with other creatives for a happy hour, and rant it out. AI and the volatile financial zeitgeist are making our career opportunities feel scarce.

be more stressed out than they are so they absorb yours instead

When you figure it out, let me know if it works for life partners as well

Send the problem partner to the producer to discuss and go get a coffee or watch a show hahah

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