Can I Share Playlists using Family Sharing?

Over the past 3 years, my wife and I used iTunes Match to resolve our content sharing issues with Apple. For the most part, it's been great. However, we have the same Apple ID for purchases.
We thought Family Sharing would take our shared iTunes media experience to the next level. We've given it a try. The good news: each of us can use our own Apple ID and share content via Family Sharing. The bad news: My wife cannot see all of the playlists we've created under my ID and vice versa.
My guess is with Family Sharing a user can share actual media content only, e.g. songs, books, and apps but cannot share metadata items that live in each user's iTunes library, which is unique by the Apple User ID.
Am I right here? Or is this simply a bug? Anyone else experiencing this?
Thank you in advance for responses.

See Here:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3819
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4620

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