SH
If it elicits vitriol, so be it. I was always taught that a relationship is dead once the communication stops. Vitriol is still better than no discussion.
I will maintain to the grave that there is heaps of goodwill on both sides of the dispute.
FWIW my definition of vitriol is that it is simply the smell of wet paint waiting to dry...so everyone can escape from the corner they have painted themselves into.