So after years and years and years of going through this process, I get a new dedicated adviser claiming that my last adviser was crazy and she would help me complete this thing. Within a few weeks it went from..
"I reviewed your paper and we are going to get this done"
to
"I think you should change your study to focus on gender differences"
"I think you should change your study to focus on gender differences"
to
"I don't know how confident I am in this study I think you need to pursue a DBA"
to
"I think we need to relook at the whole dissertation and how we got here"
And yet this is life, back to the lab!!