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Brothers, when does the U-shaped happiness curve for men begin right curve?

Im looking around at my fellow middle-aged bros and things a...
Milky legend
  07/01/25
by this reckoning, we have to wait till age 75 to approximat...
Milky legend
  07/01/25
Thats gotta be bullshit
Unhinged Indirect Expression
  07/01/25
don't worry! when youre 95, your teen years will look like m...
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Had the same thought. Noticing family members in their lat...
Razzle Meetinghouse Associate
  07/01/25
The main reason the curve starts going up is that the truly ...
claret spot
  07/01/25
wow lmao
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  07/01/25
Describe the falling apart.
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pea-brained address giraffe
  07/01/25
i think it's basically something like this: We all starte...
Milky legend
  07/01/25
Good thing my parents are already dead haha
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When you find a GF half your age.
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I think “happiness” is just accepting that life ...
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Date: July 1st, 2025 8:44 AM
Author: Milky legend

Im looking around at my fellow middle-aged bros and things are kind of falling apart. I hear about this U-shaped curve, and to be honest, we really need to hit that right hand side of the halfpipe really soon.

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Date: July 1st, 2025 8:45 AM
Author: Milky legend

by this reckoning, we have to wait till age 75 to approximate happiness we had at 20 :(

https://www.margithenderson.com/the-paradox-of-aging-the-happiness-u-curve/

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5744893&forum_id=2:#49062662)



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Date: July 1st, 2025 8:51 AM
Author: Unhinged Indirect Expression

Thats gotta be bullshit

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Date: July 1st, 2025 8:53 AM
Author: Milky legend

don't worry! when youre 95, your teen years will look like misery!

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Date: July 1st, 2025 8:58 AM
Author: pea-brained address giraffe



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Date: July 1st, 2025 12:34 PM
Author: Floppy mustard casino generalized bond



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Date: July 1st, 2025 4:34 PM
Author: Razzle Meetinghouse Associate

Had the same thought. Noticing family members in their late 70s irl getting noticeably more depressed due to health issues and heightened awareness of their mortality imo

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5744893&forum_id=2:#49064026)



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Date: July 1st, 2025 9:00 AM
Author: claret spot

The main reason the curve starts going up is that the truly saddest, most miserable bros start dying out from age 45 on

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Date: July 1st, 2025 4:35 PM
Author: Razzle Meetinghouse Associate

wow lmao

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Date: July 1st, 2025 4:36 PM
Author: Bateful hall



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Date: July 1st, 2025 8:57 AM
Author: fighting turdskin

Describe the falling apart.

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Date: July 1st, 2025 8:58 AM
Author: cream trip laser beams school



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Date: July 1st, 2025 8:59 AM
Author: pea-brained address giraffe

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Date: July 1st, 2025 10:40 AM
Author: Milky legend

i think it's basically something like this:

We all started massed together in a crowd of dudes, like 16 years old.

"The Earth" started sniping bad shit and tragedies at us, sporadically. Some bros got headshot. Gone. Some got drilled in the knee or thigh. Hobbled. Drugs, booze. Shitty parents. The riflemen started to unleash some serious clips. Great numbers of us chose liberal arts or law school. Just a cascade of dudes getting laid out, who would never really regain their footing. "The world" then launched fucking grenades. We married and/or impregnated crazy women. Fucking limbs and body parts scattered everywhere. Collateral damage. Lay-offs, ITEs, boomers, you name it. You get to my age and look around at who is still standing -- guys are alive, but their faces are twitching, there is blood (whose?) across their cheeks and foreheads, they are standing alone, no one near them. Each little noise causes our anuses to clench or release involuntarily. Shell shocked as hell. Alive, but surrounded by carnage. Dudes are crazy, paranoid about their wives, anxious to death about money, jumping painfully on one busted ankle, our backs contorted and aching, our shit in tatters.

By 40s and I imagine 50s, there are very few healthy bros left. And the fire now is raining down harder. Cancer. Accidents. Floods of alcohol. Insanity. Divorce. Kids hurt or sick or ungrateful or, God forbid, dead.

Somewhere behind the wall, the earth is sliding the "your parents are about to die" missile into its silo.

Its rough out here, bro



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5744893&forum_id=2:#49062991)



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Date: July 1st, 2025 10:54 AM
Author: yapping offensive theatre elastic band

Good thing my parents are already dead haha

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5744893&forum_id=2:#49063026)



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Date: July 1st, 2025 10:57 AM
Author: cream trip laser beams school

holy shit

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Date: July 1st, 2025 2:04 PM
Author: Chrome Coldplay Fan

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Date: July 1st, 2025 2:11 PM
Author: Milky legend

tyft

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Date: July 1st, 2025 4:29 PM
Author: Floppy mustard casino generalized bond



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Date: July 1st, 2025 4:33 PM
Author: maroon pervert

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Date: July 1st, 2025 4:38 PM
Author: Razzle Meetinghouse Associate

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Date: July 1st, 2025 11:34 PM
Author: Avocado Field



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Date: July 1st, 2025 11:46 PM
Author: chest-beating volcanic crater legal warrant



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Date: July 1st, 2025 10:54 AM
Author: Nubile fiercely-loyal stag film

When you find a GF half your age.

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Date: July 1st, 2025 10:54 AM
Author: yapping offensive theatre elastic band

Jfc shut the fuck up

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Date: July 1st, 2025 11:21 AM
Author: Nubile fiercely-loyal stag film

God has blessed me.

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Date: July 1st, 2025 11:35 PM
Author: Avocado Field

no kidding this old faggot is going to be suicidal when she dips

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Date: July 1st, 2025 11:51 PM
Author: Nubile fiercely-loyal stag film

Just find another one, if it happens.

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Date: July 1st, 2025 2:02 PM
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Date: July 1st, 2025 11:59 AM
Author: Marvelous Home

Happiness depends a lot on luck tbh. Tragedy and unforeseen shit happening can fuck anyone up. But absent tragedy I think 40s are a great decade for most bros.l

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Date: July 1st, 2025 4:33 PM
Author: Tripping stage pozpig

I think “happiness” is just accepting that life is fundamentally meaningless and as you age you get closer to death which is a relief from having to work or read nyuug posts and such.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5744893&forum_id=2:#49064023)



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Date: July 1st, 2025 11:40 PM
Author: 180 Chocolate Resort Factory Reset Button

your only chance at all is of having grandchildren while having maintained a close enough relationship, both geographically and emotionally, with your children to be a major part of their lives, otherwise all you have to look forward to is messing around with your stuff

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5744893&forum_id=2:#49065164)