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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...
vivacious pink piazza
  07/01/25
by this reckoning, we have to wait till age 75 to approximat...
vivacious pink piazza
  07/01/25
Thats gotta be bullshit
burgundy brethren locale
  07/01/25
don't worry! when youre 95, your teen years will look like m...
vivacious pink piazza
  07/01/25
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submissive cruise ship
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Territorial Comical Ceo Lettuce
  07/01/25
Had the same thought. Noticing family members in their lat...
histrionic trailer park
  07/01/25
The main reason the curve starts going up is that the truly ...
Useless range
  07/01/25
wow lmao
histrionic trailer park
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  07/01/25
Describe the falling apart.
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Boyish Charcoal Church
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submissive cruise ship
  07/01/25
i think it's basically something like this: We all starte...
vivacious pink piazza
  07/01/25
Good thing my parents are already dead haha
Mauve passionate den
  07/01/25
holy shit
Boyish Charcoal Church
  07/01/25
1FUCKING80000000000QUADRILLION000000000 POTY candidate
silver indian lodge pistol
  07/01/25
tyft
vivacious pink piazza
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Territorial Comical Ceo Lettuce
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180
razzle theatre mother
  07/01/25
im gay
histrionic trailer park
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Seedy dopamine
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ruddy indecent immigrant
  07/01/25
When you find a GF half your age.
Cerebral Mustard Masturbator Chapel
  07/01/25
Jfc shut the fuck up
Mauve passionate den
  07/01/25
God has blessed me.
Cerebral Mustard Masturbator Chapel
  07/01/25
no kidding this old faggot is going to be suicidal when she ...
Seedy dopamine
  07/01/25
Just find another one, if it happens.
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harsh pozpig
  07/01/25
Happiness depends a lot on luck tbh. Tragedy and unforeseen ...
Abnormal Lilac Home
  07/01/25
I think “happiness” is just accepting that life ...
Titillating infuriating stag film dog poop
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your only chance at all is of having grandchildren while hav...
Mind-boggling national
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Date: July 1st, 2025 8:44 AM
Author: vivacious pink piazza

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=2#49062659)



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Date: July 1st, 2025 8:45 AM
Author: vivacious pink piazza

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: burgundy brethren locale

Thats gotta be bullshit

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Date: July 1st, 2025 8:53 AM
Author: vivacious pink piazza

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: submissive cruise ship



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Date: July 1st, 2025 12:34 PM
Author: Territorial Comical Ceo Lettuce



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Date: July 1st, 2025 4:34 PM
Author: histrionic trailer park

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: Useless range

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=2#49062687)



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Date: July 1st, 2025 4:35 PM
Author: histrionic trailer park

wow lmao

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Date: July 1st, 2025 4:36 PM
Author: Topaz Abode Tank



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Date: July 1st, 2025 8:57 AM
Author: khaki startling dingle berry

Describe the falling apart.

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



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Date: July 1st, 2025 8:58 AM
Author: Boyish Charcoal Church



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Date: July 1st, 2025 8:59 AM
Author: submissive cruise ship

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gray pubes

leaky diaper

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Date: July 1st, 2025 10:40 AM
Author: vivacious pink piazza

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: Mauve passionate den

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: Boyish Charcoal Church

holy shit

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



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Date: July 1st, 2025 2:04 PM
Author: silver indian lodge pistol

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POTY candidate

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Date: July 1st, 2025 2:11 PM
Author: vivacious pink piazza

tyft

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Date: July 1st, 2025 4:29 PM
Author: Territorial Comical Ceo Lettuce



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Date: July 1st, 2025 4:33 PM
Author: razzle theatre mother

180

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Date: July 1st, 2025 4:38 PM
Author: histrionic trailer park

im gay

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Date: July 1st, 2025 11:34 PM
Author: Seedy dopamine



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Date: July 1st, 2025 11:46 PM
Author: ruddy indecent immigrant



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Date: July 1st, 2025 10:54 AM
Author: Cerebral Mustard Masturbator Chapel

When you find a GF half your age.

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



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Date: July 1st, 2025 10:54 AM
Author: Mauve passionate den

Jfc shut the fuck up

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



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Date: July 1st, 2025 11:21 AM
Author: Cerebral Mustard Masturbator Chapel

God has blessed me.

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Date: July 1st, 2025 11:35 PM
Author: Seedy dopamine

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

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



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Date: July 1st, 2025 11:51 PM
Author: Cerebral Mustard Masturbator Chapel

Just find another one, if it happens.

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



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Date: July 1st, 2025 2:02 PM
Author: harsh pozpig



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Date: July 1st, 2025 11:59 AM
Author: Abnormal Lilac 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

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



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Date: July 1st, 2025 4:33 PM
Author: Titillating infuriating stag film dog poop

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: Mind-boggling national

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)