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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...
ultramarine knife parlour
  07/01/25
by this reckoning, we have to wait till age 75 to approximat...
ultramarine knife parlour
  07/01/25
Thats gotta be bullshit
onyx heady library roast beef
  07/01/25
don't worry! when youre 95, your teen years will look like m...
ultramarine knife parlour
  07/01/25
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Thirsty incel
  07/01/25
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disgusting aromatic theater
  07/01/25
Had the same thought. Noticing family members in their lat...
Mind-boggling Area
  07/01/25
The main reason the curve starts going up is that the truly ...
Primrose Becky National Security Agency
  07/01/25
wow lmao
Mind-boggling Area
  07/01/25
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very tactful emerald chapel circlehead
  07/01/25
Describe the falling apart.
bistre stubborn patrolman
  07/01/25
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Narrow-minded galvanic wrinkle garrison
  07/01/25
bald gray pubes leaky diaper
Thirsty incel
  07/01/25
i think it's basically something like this: We all starte...
ultramarine knife parlour
  07/01/25
Good thing my parents are already dead haha
180 juggernaut range
  07/01/25
holy shit
Narrow-minded galvanic wrinkle garrison
  07/01/25
1FUCKING80000000000QUADRILLION000000000 POTY candidate
vengeful idea he suggested organic girlfriend
  07/01/25
tyft
ultramarine knife parlour
  07/01/25
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disgusting aromatic theater
  07/01/25
180
Saffron regret
  07/01/25
im gay
Mind-boggling Area
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fighting corner selfie
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Impressive Temple
  07/01/25
When you find a GF half your age.
snowy menage
  07/01/25
Jfc shut the fuck up
180 juggernaut range
  07/01/25
God has blessed me.
snowy menage
  07/01/25
no kidding this old faggot is going to be suicidal when she ...
fighting corner selfie
  07/01/25
Just find another one, if it happens.
snowy menage
  07/01/25
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Bat-shit-crazy Native
  07/01/25
Happiness depends a lot on luck tbh. Tragedy and unforeseen ...
plum soggy step-uncle's house pozpig
  07/01/25
I think “happiness” is just accepting that life ...
Olive Excitant Spot Coldplay Fan
  07/01/25
your only chance at all is of having grandchildren while hav...
overrated startling dysfunction
  07/01/25


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Date: July 1st, 2025 8:44 AM
Author: ultramarine knife parlour

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: ultramarine knife parlour

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: onyx heady library roast beef

Thats gotta be bullshit

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



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Date: July 1st, 2025 8:53 AM
Author: ultramarine knife parlour

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#49062670)



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Date: July 1st, 2025 8:58 AM
Author: Thirsty incel



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Date: July 1st, 2025 12:34 PM
Author: disgusting aromatic theater



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Date: July 1st, 2025 4:34 PM
Author: Mind-boggling Area

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: Primrose Becky National Security Agency

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: Mind-boggling Area

wow lmao

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



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Date: July 1st, 2025 4:36 PM
Author: very tactful emerald chapel circlehead



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Date: July 1st, 2025 8:57 AM
Author: bistre stubborn patrolman

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: Narrow-minded galvanic wrinkle garrison



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5744893&forum_id=2#49062679)



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Date: July 1st, 2025 8:59 AM
Author: Thirsty incel

bald

gray pubes

leaky diaper

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



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Date: July 1st, 2025 10:40 AM
Author: ultramarine knife parlour

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: 180 juggernaut range

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: Narrow-minded galvanic wrinkle garrison

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: vengeful idea he suggested organic girlfriend

1FUCKING80000000000QUADRILLION000000000

POTY candidate

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



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Date: July 1st, 2025 2:11 PM
Author: ultramarine knife parlour

tyft

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Date: July 1st, 2025 4:29 PM
Author: disgusting aromatic theater



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Date: July 1st, 2025 4:33 PM
Author: Saffron regret

180

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



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Date: July 1st, 2025 4:38 PM
Author: Mind-boggling Area

im gay

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



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Date: July 1st, 2025 11:34 PM
Author: fighting corner selfie



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Date: July 1st, 2025 11:46 PM
Author: Impressive Temple



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Date: July 1st, 2025 10:54 AM
Author: snowy menage

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: 180 juggernaut range

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: snowy menage

God has blessed me.

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



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Date: July 1st, 2025 11:35 PM
Author: fighting corner selfie

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: snowy menage

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: Bat-shit-crazy Native



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Date: July 1st, 2025 11:59 AM
Author: plum soggy step-uncle's house pozpig

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: Olive Excitant Spot Coldplay Fan

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: overrated startling dysfunction

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)