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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...
lime center
  07/01/25
by this reckoning, we have to wait till age 75 to approximat...
lime center
  07/01/25
Thats gotta be bullshit
low-t mustard pistol
  07/01/25
don't worry! when youre 95, your teen years will look like m...
lime center
  07/01/25
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Stimulating stage
  07/01/25
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Honey-headed antidepressant drug
  07/01/25
Had the same thought. Noticing family members in their lat...
Cordovan preventive strike property
  07/01/25
The main reason the curve starts going up is that the truly ...
Bright People Who Are Hurt Step-uncle's House
  07/01/25
wow lmao
Cordovan preventive strike property
  07/01/25
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Cheese-eating magical trailer park headpube
  07/01/25
Describe the falling apart.
cracking hall wagecucks
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Ivory Hunting Ground
  07/01/25
bald gray pubes leaky diaper
Stimulating stage
  07/01/25
i think it's basically something like this: We all starte...
lime center
  07/01/25
Good thing my parents are already dead haha
tan legal warrant
  07/01/25
holy shit
Ivory Hunting Ground
  07/01/25
1FUCKING80000000000QUADRILLION000000000 POTY candidate
Aromatic brilliant theater
  07/01/25
tyft
lime center
  07/01/25
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Honey-headed antidepressant drug
  07/01/25
180
Galvanic set volcanic crater
  07/01/25
im gay
Cordovan preventive strike property
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charismatic corner son of senegal
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Peach Electric Furnace Old Irish Cottage
  07/01/25
When you find a GF half your age.
razzle-dazzle really tough guy lay
  07/01/25
Jfc shut the fuck up
tan legal warrant
  07/01/25
God has blessed me.
razzle-dazzle really tough guy lay
  07/01/25
no kidding this old faggot is going to be suicidal when she ...
charismatic corner son of senegal
  07/01/25
Just find another one, if it happens.
razzle-dazzle really tough guy lay
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Adventurous unholy prole
  07/01/25
Happiness depends a lot on luck tbh. Tragedy and unforeseen ...
Crimson appetizing mad-dog skullcap lodge
  07/01/25
I think “happiness” is just accepting that life ...
Provocative Kitchen
  07/01/25
your only chance at all is of having grandchildren while hav...
Cobalt electric theater stage
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Date: July 1st, 2025 8:44 AM
Author: lime center

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=2Elisa#49062659)



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Date: July 1st, 2025 8:45 AM
Author: lime center

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=2Elisa#49062662)



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Date: July 1st, 2025 8:51 AM
Author: low-t mustard pistol

Thats gotta be bullshit

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



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Date: July 1st, 2025 8:53 AM
Author: lime center

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

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



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Date: July 1st, 2025 8:58 AM
Author: Stimulating stage



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5744893&forum_id=2Elisa#49062680)



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Date: July 1st, 2025 12:34 PM
Author: Honey-headed antidepressant drug



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5744893&forum_id=2Elisa#49063333)



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Date: July 1st, 2025 4:34 PM
Author: Cordovan preventive strike property

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=2Elisa#49064026)



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Date: July 1st, 2025 9:00 AM
Author: Bright People Who Are Hurt Step-uncle's House

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=2Elisa#49062687)



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Date: July 1st, 2025 4:35 PM
Author: Cordovan preventive strike property

wow lmao

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



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Date: July 1st, 2025 4:36 PM
Author: Cheese-eating magical trailer park headpube



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Date: July 1st, 2025 8:57 AM
Author: cracking hall wagecucks

Describe the falling apart.

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



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Date: July 1st, 2025 8:58 AM
Author: Ivory Hunting Ground



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



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Date: July 1st, 2025 8:59 AM
Author: Stimulating stage

bald

gray pubes

leaky diaper

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



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Date: July 1st, 2025 10:40 AM
Author: lime center

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=2Elisa#49062991)



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Date: July 1st, 2025 10:54 AM
Author: tan legal warrant

Good thing my parents are already dead haha

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



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Date: July 1st, 2025 10:57 AM
Author: Ivory Hunting Ground

holy shit

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



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Date: July 1st, 2025 2:04 PM
Author: Aromatic brilliant theater

1FUCKING80000000000QUADRILLION000000000

POTY candidate

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



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Date: July 1st, 2025 2:11 PM
Author: lime center

tyft

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5744893&forum_id=2Elisa#49063692)



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Date: July 1st, 2025 4:29 PM
Author: Honey-headed antidepressant drug



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5744893&forum_id=2Elisa#49064017)



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Date: July 1st, 2025 4:33 PM
Author: Galvanic set volcanic crater

180

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



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Date: July 1st, 2025 4:38 PM
Author: Cordovan preventive strike property

im gay

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



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Date: July 1st, 2025 11:34 PM
Author: charismatic corner son of senegal



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5744893&forum_id=2Elisa#49065157)



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Date: July 1st, 2025 11:46 PM
Author: Peach Electric Furnace Old Irish Cottage



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Date: July 1st, 2025 10:54 AM
Author: razzle-dazzle really tough guy lay

When you find a GF half your age.

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



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Date: July 1st, 2025 10:54 AM
Author: tan legal warrant

Jfc shut the fuck up

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



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Date: July 1st, 2025 11:21 AM
Author: razzle-dazzle really tough guy lay

God has blessed me.

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



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Date: July 1st, 2025 11:35 PM
Author: charismatic corner son of senegal

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

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



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Date: July 1st, 2025 11:51 PM
Author: razzle-dazzle really tough guy lay

Just find another one, if it happens.

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



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Date: July 1st, 2025 2:02 PM
Author: Adventurous unholy prole



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5744893&forum_id=2Elisa#49063656)



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Date: July 1st, 2025 11:59 AM
Author: Crimson appetizing mad-dog skullcap lodge

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=2Elisa#49063216)



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Date: July 1st, 2025 4:33 PM
Author: Provocative Kitchen

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=2Elisa#49064023)



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Date: July 1st, 2025 11:40 PM
Author: Cobalt electric theater stage

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=2Elisa#49065164)