With that during my hiatus I also binge watched Tex Avery clips again and came to a realization (or rather a solution for having my headcanons not too jarring or OOC) for my oldest guilty ship. Red and Wolfie DO love each other (well initially they didn't) but they came to a point it is a love-hate relationship, they both love each other but can't date too long and will end up be insufferable for each other, break up, try to see other people to move on or make the other jealous (usually he loves redheads like the Rurual riding hood, she other dogs like Droopy) then miss each other and return to each other and rinse and repeat. Not very healthy but it works for them. Also remember guys, he has a son in Tom and Jerry Kids, Stinkt Jr, maybe to him she is the cool stepmom he wishes he would return with, 2000's Tom and Jerry movies showed she is sweet with children. That's also from the moment it went from just lust to more complicated feelings he started to become less wild and became much classier than he is errupting in lust only rarely. He used to be a Big Bad Wolf dressed in rags (who lived with his country cousind I will HC, turned around his life after he made some business or something and moved to the city in which he had great cars and clothes but was still the same wild and rude wolf, met Stinky Jr's mom but it didn't go super well, tried to move on from that by doubling down being a sexist, then met Ret, just being a horny jerk about her, it became an obsession because she was the first not to want him, so a mix of frustration and need with actual nascent feelings made him truly adopt the fancier ways of the city and be a better more present dad, and he went from McWolf to Slick Wolf as he is referred to in recent media and like he is in the Little Rural Riding Hood short, in which he is unsensitive seeing Red perform because "tsk, moved on" yet he can't help but be here etc

Yes too long and chaotic of an HC I know

This had all sprang back in my head because

IN THE SECOND MOST RECENT TOM AND JERRY CARTOONS HE APPEARS ALONG THE OTHER AVERY WOLVES AND ARE ALL COUSINS AAAA