@neauoire My partner has recently been struggling with a failure to commercialize her artistic endeavours, after a lifetime of being told that's all that matters. I hope I can guide her away from being so concerned about it, but also feel she has to get their on her own.
@tbsp that's a tough one, getting out of that vicious cycle is hard. I ended up there many times myself. Listening to Alan Watts in these moments helped me, perhaps it can help your partner too.