It sounds to me also that W is looking for validation from instructor.
Do you know what her child hood was like as she seems to need to be validated by everyone and this seems so very important to her. it seems like she missed this as a child. I feel a lot of us may have.
In any case this certainly seems to be her LL.
Glad the weekend went well for you.
JAK
You don't get to choose how you're going to die. Or when, you can only decide how you're going to live now. ~Joan Baez