Dear Silva, Read your welcome. It's nice to hear from someone - I feel less invisible. The thing is this - I have tried to act and think as though he may not come back ever and put it on him to convince me to hang in there. This seems to backfire on me because he will come back, say new things about what he has learned and how much he wants to work on things and won't take no for an answer and that lasts about one week before he is out the door again. I don't how I am supposed to know when he's really ready to work with me.