Note: If the anonymous Cohost ask I got above is you, I apologize if the above post has the appearance of making fun of you, that was not my intent

It's hard to say because there's a correlation where people who could accurately evaluate my behavior and advise thereon are probably too polite to do so, whereas people who want to manipulate me are very free with advice. For example, people I believe are fucking with me sometimes call my [game theory tit for tat] approach "passive aggressive". Maybe so! But I notice they only complained about it once I started bringing out "aggressive". I suspect all they really wanted was for me to be passive