I have missed seeing you on here & have anxiously waited on your return.
I just read your last addition. That must be very hard for you to get up the nerve and the strength/conviction to speak w/ H about the nuts & bolts only to have him be rigidly attached to his usual stuff.
But I will say that as I read your response to his "this is special, me and my buddy found this special part", it almost seemed to me that you departed from "acting as if" at that very moment. I can't say for sure in what tone you may have spoken your "whatever, if your interested I will be in the other room ...". But if I had to guess, it was spoken in a crass, dejected way. Not that it would have been easy, and hindsight sure makes it plenty easier for me to say this, but you should have tried to embrace him in his happy moment of discovering the special part of the game. By doing that you would have surely gotten his attention, I think. Then once you had his attemtion you would have standed a better chance at steering him into the desired converstion. I am not saying that it would have been a cinch for it to happen that way without a hitch. But please take it under advisement for next time. Next time is probably right around the corner.
I will continue to pray in earnest for you to have exceeding joy very soon. Keep pushing forward. May God bless you and keep your family safe and well.
