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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My parents have been married for over 40 years. They meant in Dostoyevsky as Philosophy class, talked about their favorite philosophy professor all through my childhood, and have joined book clubs together. Every time I call my mom, she talks about some book they're reading for their club, and how they're proposing books and voting on them with their club mates. This is very sustainable!
My husband and I like talking about new places we visit, new restaurants, new experiences. This is a bit rough right now, with three young children, but still a large part of our lives. We had a day off last week, and found some new places that surprised us in a town we'd already been to many times. This is also fairly sustainable.
You and your girlfriend probably need to do actual things together, even if it's just attending an in person book club and bringing your physical books, and talking about your search through the local used bookstore to find copies or something.
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