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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...
shimmering swashbuckling mexican
  07/01/25
by this reckoning, we have to wait till age 75 to approximat...
shimmering swashbuckling mexican
  07/01/25
Thats gotta be bullshit
Purple house-broken reading party azn
  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...
well-lubricated beady-eyed tank
  07/01/25
The main reason the curve starts going up is that the truly ...
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wow lmao
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Describe the falling apart.
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Filthy address blood rage
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i think it's basically something like this: We all starte...
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  07/01/25
Good thing my parents are already dead haha
Primrose Big Gas Station
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holy shit
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When you find a GF half your age.
Cheese-eating Up-to-no-good School Cafeteria Pistol
  07/01/25
Jfc shut the fuck up
Primrose Big Gas Station
  07/01/25
God has blessed me.
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no kidding this old faggot is going to be suicidal when she ...
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Just find another one, if it happens.
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Happiness depends a lot on luck tbh. Tragedy and unforeseen ...
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I think “happiness” is just accepting that life ...
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Date: July 1st, 2025 8:44 AM
Author: shimmering swashbuckling mexican

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: shimmering swashbuckling mexican

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...id.#49062662)



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Date: July 1st, 2025 8:51 AM
Author: Purple house-broken reading party azn

Thats gotta be bullshit

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Date: July 1st, 2025 8:53 AM
Author: shimmering swashbuckling mexican

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

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



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Date: July 1st, 2025 8:58 AM
Author: Filthy address blood rage



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Date: July 1st, 2025 12:34 PM
Author: Jade stag film boltzmann



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Date: July 1st, 2025 4:34 PM
Author: well-lubricated beady-eyed tank

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...id.#49064026)



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Date: July 1st, 2025 9:00 AM
Author: Disturbing cyan new version sneaky criminal

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: well-lubricated beady-eyed tank

wow lmao

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Date: July 1st, 2025 4:36 PM
Author: aqua stirring shrine knife



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Date: July 1st, 2025 8:57 AM
Author: pea-brained house

Describe the falling apart.

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Date: July 1st, 2025 8:58 AM
Author: Salmon Zippy Background Story



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Date: July 1st, 2025 8:59 AM
Author: Filthy address blood rage

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Date: July 1st, 2025 10:40 AM
Author: shimmering swashbuckling mexican

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...id.#49062991)



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Date: July 1st, 2025 10:54 AM
Author: Primrose Big Gas Station

Good thing my parents are already dead haha

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



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Date: July 1st, 2025 10:57 AM
Author: Salmon Zippy Background Story

holy shit

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Date: July 1st, 2025 2:04 PM
Author: Peach Factory Reset Button Pit

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Date: July 1st, 2025 2:11 PM
Author: shimmering swashbuckling mexican

tyft

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Date: July 1st, 2025 4:29 PM
Author: Jade stag film boltzmann



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Date: July 1st, 2025 4:33 PM
Author: disrespectful mad-dog skullcap church

180

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Date: July 1st, 2025 4:38 PM
Author: well-lubricated beady-eyed tank

im gay

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Date: July 1st, 2025 11:34 PM
Author: Fragrant pale casino national security agency



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Date: July 1st, 2025 11:46 PM
Author: Stimulating laser beams theater stage



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Date: July 1st, 2025 10:54 AM
Author: Cheese-eating Up-to-no-good School Cafeteria Pistol

When you find a GF half your age.

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Date: July 1st, 2025 10:54 AM
Author: Primrose Big Gas Station

Jfc shut the fuck up

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Date: July 1st, 2025 11:21 AM
Author: Cheese-eating Up-to-no-good School Cafeteria Pistol

God has blessed me.

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Date: July 1st, 2025 11:35 PM
Author: Fragrant pale casino national security agency

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: Cheese-eating Up-to-no-good School Cafeteria Pistol

Just find another one, if it happens.

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Date: July 1st, 2025 2:02 PM
Author: White Diverse Locale Liquid Oxygen



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Date: July 1st, 2025 11:59 AM
Author: Offensive depressive

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...id.#49063216)



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Date: July 1st, 2025 4:33 PM
Author: Histrionic Gold Forum

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...id.#49064023)



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Date: July 1st, 2025 11:40 PM
Author: henna awkward pozpig

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...id.#49065164)