Hi all
So I've been taking lessons for ages, I started just before the first lock down so not a great time to start. It's been stop start stop start and I felt like every time I bade progress we went back into another lockdown and when I got back in the car I'd gone backwards. I booked a test and failed. So I decided to re book and resume lessons nearer the time, I was pregnant and waited until maternity to resume them, however I had a c section and was told I could not drive for 6 weeks. This meant that after the 6 weeks it would only be 2 weeks of driving before my test and my instructor could not give me extra lessons due to other tests etc. We talked about postponing my test but in the end thought that me booking an intensive course with another instructor could help me become test ready. I booked an intensive course and it was a lot harder than I thought to drive a different car and also do things his way. He did not like some of the food and I was doing things and wanted to polish up my driving. Since this I have been doing ok ish but doing things his way is harder and even though I'm getting the pedals etc better now and my drive has been improving my instructor doesn't have as much patience as my old one and makes me nervous and every lesson I end up making silly mistakes and going back to square one. I drive 90% of the lesson perfectly and then go and do something stupid like stall the car or put it into gear 1 instead of 3 when building speed🤦♀️and this doesn't impress my instructor al all and he tells me off a lot making me really hate driving. I have a new test booked for July and we were gonna do lessons once a week until then. However yesterday my instructor called me to say he doesn't know what to do with me because he really only does intensive courses and not lessons and he's getting booked up quite quickly with these courses and can't fit my schedule around work etc anymore. He says he can put some hours a side before my test for another set of intensive lessons but it's not working like this. We did the intensive course last time and time ran out b4 I got any better because I kept making silly mistakes. Part of me thinks I should do the intensive course again and part of me thinks I should go back to my old instructor as she is a lot more patient and I don't make these mistakes. However we've spent ages now trying to get my driving more polished and I don't wanna in do all the work again. Also I could try a new instructor all together but that might be a bad idea as I've learnt that swapping cars, ways of doing things etc for a learner driver is very hard and is a set back. I'm starting to really hate driving and beginning to think of giving up.