You're not alone.

My mother used to drive. One day, goes the family story —it happened before I was born— she was driving along just fine, my sister and two brothers in the back seat, my father in front with her. It seems years of his relentless, mean, impatient, arrogant, carping, picky harangue about anything and everything finally added up.

Without a word, she calmly slowed, signaled, and pulled over to the side of the road. Checking her mirror for traffic, she opened the driver's door, stepped out and around to the passenger's side, where she waited for my father to get out. He finally did, whereupon she calmly sat down. She never drove again.

I can testify. In later years, my father would demand I mow the lawn, then burst out of the house to harass me in the front yard over my performance. I don't recall being consciously influenced by the Mom Driving story, but certainly may have been, as one day enough was just enough and I refused to perform any longer. I deeply dislike mowing lawns to this day.

There are a lot of people like this. Difficult to say why they behave that way. I think of my Dad sometimes as a brutal control freak, sometimes as so concerned about me that he couldn't handle it. Who knows what mixture of them he was, if at all, at any given time?

None of this getting you into a driver's license, however. Could you borrow or rent a car? Could your brother or a friend be your licensed passenger for practice then? No uncles available, cousins, neighbors, family friends? A friendly teacher, pastor, minister? Could you hire someone for a few hours?

Consider a salesperson from a car dealership. Seriously: it's to their advantage to help new drivers get on the road, who will then need to buy cars. Do the local police have some kind of program? Family doctor, local hospital?

In the US, the American Automobile Association offers all kinds of services. Is there a Canadian version, maybe with an interest in promoting safe new drivers?

Above all, stay strong. Trust your instructor's opinion: he has seen many more driving students than has your father. His judgement is more experienced and better trained.

Things like this can be like anticipating trips to the dentist, hesitating to jump into cold water on a hot day, waffling over asking for a kiss. Sometimes one must swallow hard and do the thing. Keep your eyes on the prize.