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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...
Orchid Wonderful Milk
  07/01/25
by this reckoning, we have to wait till age 75 to approximat...
Orchid Wonderful Milk
  07/01/25
Thats gotta be bullshit
Dead ticket booth
  07/01/25
don't worry! when youre 95, your teen years will look like m...
Orchid Wonderful Milk
  07/01/25
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passionate misunderstood rehab generalized bond
  07/01/25
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disturbing gunner filthpig
  07/01/25
Had the same thought. Noticing family members in their lat...
buck-toothed mildly autistic dingle berry
  07/01/25
The main reason the curve starts going up is that the truly ...
Cream Rough-skinned Factory Reset Button Organic Girlfriend
  07/01/25
wow lmao
buck-toothed mildly autistic dingle berry
  07/01/25
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emerald dilemma
  07/01/25
Describe the falling apart.
Bipolar Meetinghouse
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French orchestra pit masturbator
  07/01/25
bald gray pubes leaky diaper
passionate misunderstood rehab generalized bond
  07/01/25
i think it's basically something like this: We all starte...
Orchid Wonderful Milk
  07/01/25
Good thing my parents are already dead haha
Arrogant violet deer antler
  07/01/25
holy shit
French orchestra pit masturbator
  07/01/25
1FUCKING80000000000QUADRILLION000000000 POTY candidate
Boyish Indigo Water Buffalo
  07/01/25
tyft
Orchid Wonderful Milk
  07/01/25
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disturbing gunner filthpig
  07/01/25
180
garnet splenetic cruise ship
  07/01/25
im gay
buck-toothed mildly autistic dingle berry
  07/01/25
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cyan thriller potus
  07/01/25
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massive fat ankles
  07/01/25
When you find a GF half your age.
sinister ultramarine pit depressive
  07/01/25
Jfc shut the fuck up
Arrogant violet deer antler
  07/01/25
God has blessed me.
sinister ultramarine pit depressive
  07/01/25
no kidding this old faggot is going to be suicidal when she ...
cyan thriller potus
  07/01/25
Just find another one, if it happens.
sinister ultramarine pit depressive
  07/01/25
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Carmine comical pocket flask brunch
  07/01/25
Happiness depends a lot on luck tbh. Tragedy and unforeseen ...
vibrant drab range
  07/01/25
I think “happiness” is just accepting that life ...
snowy locale mexican
  07/01/25
your only chance at all is of having grandchildren while hav...
dun trust fund area
  07/01/25


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Date: July 1st, 2025 8:44 AM
Author: Orchid Wonderful Milk

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.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5744893&forum_id=2E#49062659)



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Date: July 1st, 2025 8:45 AM
Author: Orchid Wonderful Milk

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=2E#49062662)



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Date: July 1st, 2025 8:51 AM
Author: Dead ticket booth

Thats gotta be bullshit

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5744893&forum_id=2E#49062667)



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Date: July 1st, 2025 8:53 AM
Author: Orchid Wonderful Milk

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

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5744893&forum_id=2E#49062670)



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Date: July 1st, 2025 8:58 AM
Author: passionate misunderstood rehab generalized bond



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Date: July 1st, 2025 12:34 PM
Author: disturbing gunner filthpig



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Date: July 1st, 2025 4:34 PM
Author: buck-toothed mildly autistic dingle berry

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=2E#49064026)



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Date: July 1st, 2025 9:00 AM
Author: Cream Rough-skinned Factory Reset Button Organic Girlfriend

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

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5744893&forum_id=2E#49062687)



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Date: July 1st, 2025 4:35 PM
Author: buck-toothed mildly autistic dingle berry

wow lmao

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5744893&forum_id=2E#49064031)



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Date: July 1st, 2025 4:36 PM
Author: emerald dilemma



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Date: July 1st, 2025 8:57 AM
Author: Bipolar Meetinghouse

Describe the falling apart.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5744893&forum_id=2E#49062678)



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Date: July 1st, 2025 8:58 AM
Author: French orchestra pit masturbator



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Date: July 1st, 2025 8:59 AM
Author: passionate misunderstood rehab generalized bond

bald

gray pubes

leaky diaper

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5744893&forum_id=2E#49062683)



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Date: July 1st, 2025 10:40 AM
Author: Orchid Wonderful Milk

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=2E#49062991)



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Date: July 1st, 2025 10:54 AM
Author: Arrogant violet deer antler

Good thing my parents are already dead haha

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



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Date: July 1st, 2025 10:57 AM
Author: French orchestra pit masturbator

holy shit

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5744893&forum_id=2E#49063035)



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Date: July 1st, 2025 2:04 PM
Author: Boyish Indigo Water Buffalo

1FUCKING80000000000QUADRILLION000000000

POTY candidate

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5744893&forum_id=2E#49063673)



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Date: July 1st, 2025 2:11 PM
Author: Orchid Wonderful Milk

tyft

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Date: July 1st, 2025 4:29 PM
Author: disturbing gunner filthpig



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Date: July 1st, 2025 4:33 PM
Author: garnet splenetic cruise ship

180

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5744893&forum_id=2E#49064022)



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Date: July 1st, 2025 4:38 PM
Author: buck-toothed mildly autistic dingle berry

im gay

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5744893&forum_id=2E#49064037)



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Date: July 1st, 2025 11:34 PM
Author: cyan thriller potus



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5744893&forum_id=2E#49065157)



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Date: July 1st, 2025 11:46 PM
Author: massive fat ankles



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Date: July 1st, 2025 10:54 AM
Author: sinister ultramarine pit depressive

When you find a GF half your age.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5744893&forum_id=2E#49063025)



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Date: July 1st, 2025 10:54 AM
Author: Arrogant violet deer antler

Jfc shut the fuck up

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5744893&forum_id=2E#49063028)



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Date: July 1st, 2025 11:21 AM
Author: sinister ultramarine pit depressive

God has blessed me.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5744893&forum_id=2E#49063116)



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Date: July 1st, 2025 11:35 PM
Author: cyan thriller potus

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

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5744893&forum_id=2E#49065159)



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Date: July 1st, 2025 11:51 PM
Author: sinister ultramarine pit depressive

Just find another one, if it happens.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5744893&forum_id=2E#49065180)



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Date: July 1st, 2025 2:02 PM
Author: Carmine comical pocket flask brunch



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5744893&forum_id=2E#49063656)



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Date: July 1st, 2025 11:59 AM
Author: vibrant drab range

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

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5744893&forum_id=2E#49063216)



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Date: July 1st, 2025 4:33 PM
Author: snowy locale mexican

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=2E#49064023)



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Date: July 1st, 2025 11:40 PM
Author: dun trust fund area

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=2E#49065164)