{"id":181,"date":"2024-02-25T19:36:45","date_gmt":"2024-02-25T19:36:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wellbut.com\/?p=181"},"modified":"2024-02-25T19:36:46","modified_gmt":"2024-02-25T19:36:46","slug":"well-butto-quote-the-talking-heads-how-did-i-get-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wellbut.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/25\/well-butto-quote-the-talking-heads-how-did-i-get-here\/","title":{"rendered":"Well but\u2026to quote the Talking Heads, how did I get here?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I&#8217;m struggling. I&#8217;m struggling and I can&#8217;t even really explain why or what that means. I think it&#8217;s partially because my I&#8217;ve been missing my financial goals lately. Not drastically but enough to have to make adjustments I would rather not have made. I&#8217;ve been undisciplined. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Also, like I mentioned in a post I decided not to make public back in November, I&#8217;ve been listening to too much news again. Some of that garbage makes me so angry and I resolved to myself when I dumped Facebook and most of my other social media that life was too short to go through life being pissed off.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Another reason is that I&#8217;m looking too far into the future when I have the chance to retire. I&#8217;m still ten years away from doing that but I&#8217;ve been dwelling on it at the expense of living each day to the fullest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yet another reason is that, despite how much I tell myself I&#8217;m doing fine, I&#8217;d really love the companionship of a good woman but that&#8217;s a psychological horror show. My self-image is completely shattered. Most of the time it goes something like &#8220;I&#8217;ll never get the girl I want so why bother?&#8221; (Tamber, Linda, Monique). It doesn&#8217;t help when I find out girls I did like and who turned me down later expressed regrets about having done so (Jaime, Debby) or I completely missed the obvious (Christina, Christy, Celestine.) By the time I finally managed to get the girl I wanted (or at least thought I wanted at the time) my lack of self worth as a mate was so thoroughly ingrained that my thoughts had become &#8220;Get what you can out of this and bail before she finds out you aren&#8217;t worth shit.&#8221; (Melissa)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m struggling. I&#8217;m struggling and I can&#8217;t even really explain why or what that means. I think it&#8217;s partially because my I&#8217;ve been missing my financial goals lately. Not drastically but enough to have to make adjustments I would rather not have made. I&#8217;ve been undisciplined. Also, like I mentioned [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wellbut.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wellbut.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wellbut.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wellbut.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wellbut.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wellbut.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":182,"href":"https:\/\/wellbut.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181\/revisions\/182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wellbut.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wellbut.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wellbut.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}