I know you are looking for one-on-one help solving quilt problems, but there are an awful lot of excellent tutorials and questions answered on this board. Maybe your wife would be willing to sit with you, read through the tutorial and help you figure it out. Even if she doesn't quilt, between you both, you should be able to make sense of things and will learn a lot along the way.
Others have already suggested YouTube. I know what you mean about instructions. I have a video bookmarked about continuous binding and have to watch it - stop it - back up - look at my quilt - watch video, every single time I want to finish binding.