Thank you everybody for the input. I am now just over three months in and somewhere around the two month mark something just "clicked" and I've been making what I consider pretty good progress. I've got probably 150 - 160 practice hours down and I'm just starting to feel like I'm getting a feel for the instrument.

My wife took up learning piano the same day I signed all my free time over to learning guitar. We can play a couple of songs together already (albeit not well) which is a great motivator to keep progressing.