Driving- am I bad?

[CoffeeLover90]

Yes, I'm probably overthinking. But humour me. I've had three 90 minute lessons and I still haven't mastered pulling up on the kerb. Instructor said after lesson 3 or 4 I should drive home from the quiet industrial estate we use. I've block booked 10 lessons and now wondering if I've wasted money. But I do feel determined. Not driving has held me back for years.
So my question would be- how many lessons before you were on a road with regular traffic flow?
Thanks 😁

Think of it this way. You have never worn ice skates before in your entire life. You've read a how-to book, and you have had three lessons. How good would you be? I mean, the instructor is there telling you what to do, and you remember some of it, but you keep cocking it up and falling over. Would you be telling yourself how terrible you are, or would it have dawned on you that it takes time to master your co-ordination, and you need to keep practising?

Op I've just had my 10th two hour lesson today and only today has it clicked how to pull up on the side of the road being the correct distance without being way to far away from it . I'm 30 as well.
For my first 4 lessons I was driving around a very quiet housing estate
So far now I've covered in 6 lessons big roundabouts, manual hill starts , meeting situations and been on the dual carriageways 50-70mph now .
My only strong point is the hill starts and I am making a lot of mistakes every lesson specifically with the gears at roundabouts and forgetting to change back down gear/ meeting situations with narrow parked cars but I just have to keep going

To me this all sounds normal but we are all different and you should never compare yourself

It took me almost a year to learn how to drive but I didn't get my confidence in it until a few months after I passed. (I was 31 when I passed)
I couldn't get my head around it at all and even my instructor said that maybe driving wasn't for me.
I'm now a competent and confident driver and love it.

Thank you all for the encouragement. I knew deep down I was just doubting myself. I'm not one for not putting 100% into anything and I hate failure, that's my problem. Just got to remember that it is a skill, a difficult one, I need to calm down and just try my best.