Okay I hear both of you.

CityGirl you are right I did threaten the mediator and on purpose. My point was if this is hopeless I will go and we can get this ball rolling. The tone did change. So be it.

Can anyone offer suggestions on how to move forward with this?

Maybe I will leave the money thing for a bit and say I just want to make sure that we are careful with all of this in the air.

Can anyone please offer a solid / clear suggestion on how to support her with this job.

I can see that I need to work in steps here.

1. Get her to be my friend again. Listen, support, validate, not control (I do have a bad habit of doing that passively)

2. GAL

3. ?????????????????????????????????????????????

Really as you can see I suck at this.