The person who asks for feedback is inviting help, not surrendering authorship.

A request for comment is easily mistaken for a request to take over. The reader starts redesigning, the listener begins describing the version they would have made, and the maker is left defending decisions never opened for debate. Asking for help with a thing is not the same as handing it across. The work still belongs to whoever has to finish it.

When you give notes this week, describe your experience rather than your preferences. Say where you got lost or stopped believing it, and leave the choice of what to do about that with the person whose name is on it.