The Wednesday Wellness threads are meant to encourage users to ask for and provide advice and motivation to improve their lives. It isn't intended as a 'containment thread' and any content which could go here could instead be posted in its own thread. You could post:
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Requests for advice and / or encouragement. On basically any topic and for any scale of problem.
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Updates to let us know how you are doing. This provides valuable feedback on past advice / encouragement and will hopefully make people feel a little more motivated to follow through. If you want to be reminded to post your update, see the post titled 'update reminders', below.
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Advice. This can be in response to a request for advice or just something that you think could be generally useful for many people here.
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Encouragement. Probably best directed at specific users, but if you feel like just encouraging people in general I don't think anyone is going to object. I don't think I really need to say this, but just to be clear; encouragement should have a generally positive tone and not shame people (if people feel that shame might be an effective tool for motivating people, please discuss this so we can form a group consensus on how to use it rather than just trying it).
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The "modal" model of a typical relationship in India is that the couple will start seeing each other largely on the down-low. Things don't blow up immediately? Loop in your friends. Things don't crash after a few weeks or months and they really like each other? Then parents are (usually) informed. Things are serious? Introduce them in person. By the time the parents are meeting each other, you're practically engaged.
Theres definitely major variance. Stage in the life cycle. Liberal vs conservative, in social terms. Sanity, maturity. But that's roughly how it works for most of us. I don't think it's that different in most of the West, but each step is a bigger milestone here.
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