Quote Originally Posted by Talakeal View Post
I wanted to RP an attractive and strong willed character so CHA should obviously be my high stat and healing and melee are what I enjoy doing mechanically. Simple as that.
It sounds like you want to fill the "Leader" role. There is already a class to do this. Bard uses Cha as a main stat for melee and does healing. There is a very viable melee build for Bard in PHB2.