[Frondo]

Your assumption built into your last sentence is sort of one of the big problems in a nutshell:

"I hope [they] would meet me in the middle ... by evaulating their overreaction"

It's your assumption that what they're doing is overreacting, that's the problem.

[4ydx]

There is such a thing as being overly sensitive. And yes in my mind they are in fact overreacting because I know what my intent was.