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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In the before times (but still post sexual revolution) there were a billion singles mixers, there was speed dating, there were classified ads, matchmakers, there were cruises and vacation destinations (like Club Med) that largely catered to young single people etc etc. Like obviously people in the 90s were meeting and dating.
I’ve never used apps but friends I know have met boyfriends there, but mostly college/grad school, workplace, parties, friends of friends and so on. In fact I’d say most have met through parties and friends of friends of people we or they went to school with who still live in NYC or London. Maybe that’s a class thing but I don’t think so. I go to a lot of parties where gender ratio of single people seems to be 50/50, men seem to be doing fine.
I think a lot of this is just men and women having social circles and being in places or environments that don’t overlap as much as others do.
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