Fantastic! I'm so happy that's working for you. One of things that's missing in this is that the parties involved actually intend to work together. As is clear

Fantastic! I'm so happy that's working for you. One of things that's missing in this is that the parties involved actually intend to work together. As is clear from the various threads of discussion to this post, people react based on their underlying (dis)trust of the intent of the other party. That's why this is experienced by many folks emotionally as "passive-aggressive" manipulation.