> * ("You need qualifications, you won't get them, you won't amount to anything- plumber is a great job for your skills" etc.),* Encouragement is only one form

> * ("You need qualifications, you won't get them, you won't amount to anything- plumber is a great job for your skills" etc.),* Encouragement is only one form of support, honesty is the other. ;- ) My father was complicated, but I remember reorienting myself as a (very young) kid when I heard that what I was doing would make my life miserable. P.S. suspend disbelief for a second, consider that maybe Melinda may have seen something in Bill that she didn't in her childhood, and that maybe there's more to it than you'd initially think.