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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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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This is a weird question, simply because my default state has been single and happy for the past 10 years. This is mainly because I delt with fairly time intensive nightly health treatments (dialysis) for 5 of those years, which made it difficult for me to date. Now I am almost too comfortable single to think I could date successfully.
It really amounts to two things: be happy with who you are (or be working toward someone you would be happy being), and have fulling hobbies and/or career. Of course, this same advice roughly applies when you have an SO as well.
As for myself: I regularly travel, either to explore a city or an outdoor area (I'm visiting NW Georgia right now for backpacking), hike, and have/had a fulfilling job.
You were able to stop dialysis treatment?
Fortunately, got a cadaveric kidney transplant. Technically my second transplant, after losing the first after 10 years. The waitlist where I live is one of the shortest in the country, so it "only" took about 5 years after getting on dialysis.
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