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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...
swollen henna den legend
  07/01/25
by this reckoning, we have to wait till age 75 to approximat...
swollen henna den legend
  07/01/25
Thats gotta be bullshit
big deer antler
  07/01/25
don't worry! when youre 95, your teen years will look like m...
swollen henna den legend
  07/01/25
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cerebral lodge corn cake
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Stirring Mewling Circlehead
  07/01/25
Had the same thought. Noticing family members in their lat...
Beta friendly grandma
  07/01/25
The main reason the curve starts going up is that the truly ...
Bright sexy gay wizard
  07/01/25
wow lmao
Beta friendly grandma
  07/01/25
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Fragrant nowag
  07/01/25
Describe the falling apart.
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out-of-control hominid
  07/01/25
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cerebral lodge corn cake
  07/01/25
i think it's basically something like this: We all starte...
swollen henna den legend
  07/01/25
Good thing my parents are already dead haha
Magenta dysfunction
  07/01/25
holy shit
out-of-control hominid
  07/01/25
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Spectacular Fanboi Trailer Park
  07/01/25
tyft
swollen henna den legend
  07/01/25
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Stirring Mewling Circlehead
  07/01/25
180
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Beta friendly grandma
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smoky pocket flask
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Trip Space Hissy Fit
  07/01/25
When you find a GF half your age.
puce church building toaster
  07/01/25
Jfc shut the fuck up
Magenta dysfunction
  07/01/25
God has blessed me.
puce church building toaster
  07/01/25
no kidding this old faggot is going to be suicidal when she ...
smoky pocket flask
  07/01/25
Just find another one, if it happens.
puce church building toaster
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  07/01/25
Happiness depends a lot on luck tbh. Tragedy and unforeseen ...
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  07/01/25
I think “happiness” is just accepting that life ...
Hyperventilating Point
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your only chance at all is of having grandchildren while hav...
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Date: July 1st, 2025 8:44 AM
Author: swollen henna den 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: swollen henna den 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: big deer antler

Thats gotta be bullshit

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Date: July 1st, 2025 8:53 AM
Author: swollen henna den 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: cerebral lodge corn cake



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Date: July 1st, 2025 12:34 PM
Author: Stirring Mewling Circlehead



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Date: July 1st, 2025 4:34 PM
Author: Beta friendly grandma

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: Bright sexy gay wizard

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: Beta friendly grandma

wow lmao

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Date: July 1st, 2025 4:36 PM
Author: Fragrant nowag



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Date: July 1st, 2025 8:57 AM
Author: Exciting slap-happy resort boiling water

Describe the falling apart.

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Date: July 1st, 2025 8:58 AM
Author: out-of-control hominid



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Date: July 1st, 2025 8:59 AM
Author: cerebral lodge corn cake

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Date: July 1st, 2025 10:40 AM
Author: swollen henna den 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: Magenta dysfunction

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: out-of-control hominid

holy shit

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Date: July 1st, 2025 2:04 PM
Author: Spectacular Fanboi Trailer Park

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POTY candidate

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Date: July 1st, 2025 2:11 PM
Author: swollen henna den legend

tyft

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Date: July 1st, 2025 4:29 PM
Author: Stirring Mewling Circlehead



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Date: July 1st, 2025 4:33 PM
Author: at-the-ready box office

180

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Date: July 1st, 2025 4:38 PM
Author: Beta friendly grandma

im gay

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Date: July 1st, 2025 11:34 PM
Author: smoky pocket flask



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Date: July 1st, 2025 11:46 PM
Author: Trip Space Hissy Fit



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Date: July 1st, 2025 10:54 AM
Author: puce church building toaster

When you find a GF half your age.

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Date: July 1st, 2025 10:54 AM
Author: Magenta dysfunction

Jfc shut the fuck up

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Date: July 1st, 2025 11:21 AM
Author: puce church building toaster

God has blessed me.

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Date: July 1st, 2025 11:35 PM
Author: smoky pocket flask

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: puce church building toaster

Just find another one, if it happens.

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Date: July 1st, 2025 2:02 PM
Author: naked dead parlor



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Date: July 1st, 2025 11:59 AM
Author: thriller stag film therapy

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: Hyperventilating Point

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: Erotic hyperactive set

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)