Dunno what's happening... he's becoming...loving? He greeted me when I got home tonight with licks on my face ( unfortunately he goes for the lips. ewww.) Usually he's a jumping nose biting fiend, (all in excitement, but it does hurt), but tonight, kisses!
The next few hours he tolerated being petted and ear rubbed without squirming backwards like he does a lot. Then I put together his 'nest' on the bedroom floor as shown in the pic, and he just kept gazing adoringly at me, and let me pet him.
It's a year we've had him next month, it's been at times exasperating, exhausting, hurtful ( his seemingly not liking to be handled much), emotionally draining for so many reasons, the source of some major arguments between me and the husband. But I've remained committed to having hope that one day he will be comfortable enough with us to accept some attention, and I've been seeing it more and more, and tonight was really the icing on the cake, he got face rubs, ear rubs and just let me stroke all that lovely, soft fur. He is soooooo soft! 😊