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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...
Splenetic Pit
  07/01/25
by this reckoning, we have to wait till age 75 to approximat...
Splenetic Pit
  07/01/25
Thats gotta be bullshit
Demanding hell
  07/01/25
don't worry! when youre 95, your teen years will look like m...
Splenetic Pit
  07/01/25
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Carnelian Multi-colored Circlehead
  07/01/25
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ungodly citrine church building
  07/01/25
Had the same thought. Noticing family members in their lat...
Filthy brethren
  07/01/25
The main reason the curve starts going up is that the truly ...
abnormal cracking patrolman kitty
  07/01/25
wow lmao
Filthy brethren
  07/01/25
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Vibrant startled corner trust fund
  07/01/25
Describe the falling apart.
Laughsome useless internal respiration base
  07/01/25
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wonderful ultramarine sandwich theatre
  07/01/25
bald gray pubes leaky diaper
Carnelian Multi-colored Circlehead
  07/01/25
i think it's basically something like this: We all starte...
Splenetic Pit
  07/01/25
Good thing my parents are already dead haha
At-the-ready area knife
  07/01/25
holy shit
wonderful ultramarine sandwich theatre
  07/01/25
1FUCKING80000000000QUADRILLION000000000 POTY candidate
arousing pungent national french chef
  07/01/25
tyft
Splenetic Pit
  07/01/25
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ungodly citrine church building
  07/01/25
180
comical bawdyhouse
  07/01/25
im gay
Filthy brethren
  07/01/25
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umber mediation nursing home
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diverse trump supporter orchestra pit
  07/01/25
When you find a GF half your age.
olive masturbator
  07/01/25
Jfc shut the fuck up
At-the-ready area knife
  07/01/25
God has blessed me.
olive masturbator
  07/01/25
no kidding this old faggot is going to be suicidal when she ...
umber mediation nursing home
  07/01/25
Just find another one, if it happens.
olive masturbator
  07/01/25
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Odious senate
  07/01/25
Happiness depends a lot on luck tbh. Tragedy and unforeseen ...
Carmine Piazza Hairy Legs
  07/01/25
I think “happiness” is just accepting that life ...
cruel-hearted grizzly karate old irish cottage
  07/01/25
your only chance at all is of having grandchildren while hav...
avocado digit ratio striped hyena
  07/01/25


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Date: July 1st, 2025 8:44 AM
Author: Splenetic Pit

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: Splenetic Pit

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: Demanding hell

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: Splenetic Pit

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: Carnelian Multi-colored Circlehead



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Date: July 1st, 2025 12:34 PM
Author: ungodly citrine church building



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Date: July 1st, 2025 4:34 PM
Author: Filthy brethren

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: abnormal cracking patrolman kitty

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: Filthy brethren

wow lmao

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Date: July 1st, 2025 4:36 PM
Author: Vibrant startled corner trust fund



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Date: July 1st, 2025 8:57 AM
Author: Laughsome useless internal respiration base

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: wonderful ultramarine sandwich theatre



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Date: July 1st, 2025 8:59 AM
Author: Carnelian Multi-colored Circlehead

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: Splenetic Pit

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: At-the-ready area knife

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: wonderful ultramarine sandwich theatre

holy shit

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Date: July 1st, 2025 2:04 PM
Author: arousing pungent national french chef

1FUCKING80000000000QUADRILLION000000000

POTY candidate

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Date: July 1st, 2025 2:11 PM
Author: Splenetic Pit

tyft

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Date: July 1st, 2025 4:29 PM
Author: ungodly citrine church building



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Date: July 1st, 2025 4:33 PM
Author: comical bawdyhouse

180

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Date: July 1st, 2025 4:38 PM
Author: Filthy brethren

im gay

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Date: July 1st, 2025 11:34 PM
Author: umber mediation nursing home



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Date: July 1st, 2025 11:46 PM
Author: diverse trump supporter orchestra pit



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Date: July 1st, 2025 10:54 AM
Author: olive masturbator

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: At-the-ready area knife

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: olive masturbator

God has blessed me.

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Date: July 1st, 2025 11:35 PM
Author: umber mediation nursing home

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: olive masturbator

Just find another one, if it happens.

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Date: July 1st, 2025 2:02 PM
Author: Odious senate



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Date: July 1st, 2025 11:59 AM
Author: Carmine Piazza Hairy Legs

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: cruel-hearted grizzly karate old irish cottage

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: avocado digit ratio striped hyena

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)