OR start to use the DB principles that you have read, KEV, but by your own admission, don't practice.
I also thought the conversation with your w was about you sniveling up to her for some scraps of approval which obviously did not work. At first, I did not feel she was putting her bad mood on you, or holding you accountable for it, but you assumed responsibility for it and then she let you keep the problem as if it was yours...what a dance you two do...
Surely you can re-purchase some materials (at her expense if she can't part with them) so you don't have to keep asking her. It puts you into such a weak position of need and being the student to the teacher, inferior to superior. If you KNOW you don't care about the M, go ahead and use her for the info.But if you do care how she views you, assume a different posture in your interactions if you MUST interact with her...on this.
Good luck,
( j )
M: 57 H: 60 M: 35 yrs S30,D28,D19 H off to Alaska 2006 Recon 7/07- 8/08 *2016* X = "ALASKA 2.0" GROUND HOG DAY I File D 10/16 OW DIV 2/26/2018 X marries OW 5/2016