Originally Posted by
RainingButtons 
Sickens me and I feel bad for telling him my idea. Like I get his hopes up for an amazing future that he can’t sustain. Angry because he expects me to create the vision and he wants to live off the back of it. Upset because I do actually want to share my dreams with someone but I just feel empty. I’m spent.
Hey RB, I just wanted to say that the fact that you take your ideas and move them forward in to being is a really great talent. It's probably the norm for you, but that takes some real commitment and resolve, so kudos to your for doing that.
I hope, perhaps with your latest idea, you can take it on as your own completely and really see where it can go.
It's tough because you want to share with him but you know, realistically that he can't carry through on it (he probably hasn't actually acknowledged that yet, based on what you have said). That's sad! No doubt about it, so totally normal to be sad about it. How do you step away from not having that close a relationship.
It's not easy and it takes however much time it takes.
I like the way Maudcat put it about "enlightenments".