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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...
Tan associate
  07/01/25
by this reckoning, we have to wait till age 75 to approximat...
Tan associate
  07/01/25
Thats gotta be bullshit
misanthropic place of business rigor
  07/01/25
don't worry! when youre 95, your teen years will look like m...
Tan associate
  07/01/25
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Angry Ticket Booth
  07/01/25
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Tripping big deer antler business firm
  07/01/25
Had the same thought. Noticing family members in their lat...
Exciting church building
  07/01/25
The main reason the curve starts going up is that the truly ...
gaped halford
  07/01/25
wow lmao
Exciting church building
  07/01/25
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Soggy balding office
  07/01/25
Describe the falling apart.
Mauve motley locale foreskin
  07/01/25
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smoky old irish cottage
  07/01/25
bald gray pubes leaky diaper
Angry Ticket Booth
  07/01/25
i think it's basically something like this: We all starte...
Tan associate
  07/01/25
Good thing my parents are already dead haha
walnut hairless station filthpig
  07/01/25
holy shit
smoky old irish cottage
  07/01/25
1FUCKING80000000000QUADRILLION000000000 POTY candidate
Vigorous potus meetinghouse
  07/01/25
tyft
Tan associate
  07/01/25
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Tripping big deer antler business firm
  07/01/25
180
Metal yellow box office idiot
  07/01/25
im gay
Exciting church building
  07/01/25
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light codepig
  07/01/25
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anal shrine multi-billionaire
  07/01/25
When you find a GF half your age.
Titillating Bistre Newt Jap
  07/01/25
Jfc shut the fuck up
walnut hairless station filthpig
  07/01/25
God has blessed me.
Titillating Bistre Newt Jap
  07/01/25
no kidding this old faggot is going to be suicidal when she ...
light codepig
  07/01/25
Just find another one, if it happens.
Titillating Bistre Newt Jap
  07/01/25
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Twinkling Razzmatazz Nibblets
  07/01/25
Happiness depends a lot on luck tbh. Tragedy and unforeseen ...
dashing personal credit line
  07/01/25
I think “happiness” is just accepting that life ...
brass cracking senate
  07/01/25
your only chance at all is of having grandchildren while hav...
Vivacious gold mexican water buffalo
  07/01/25


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Date: July 1st, 2025 8:44 AM
Author: Tan associate

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=2Reputation#49062659)



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Date: July 1st, 2025 8:45 AM
Author: Tan associate

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=2Reputation#49062662)



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Date: July 1st, 2025 8:51 AM
Author: misanthropic place of business rigor

Thats gotta be bullshit

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



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Date: July 1st, 2025 8:53 AM
Author: Tan associate

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

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



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Date: July 1st, 2025 8:58 AM
Author: Angry Ticket Booth



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Date: July 1st, 2025 12:34 PM
Author: Tripping big deer antler business firm



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Date: July 1st, 2025 4:34 PM
Author: Exciting church building

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=2Reputation#49064026)



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Date: July 1st, 2025 9:00 AM
Author: gaped halford

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=2Reputation#49062687)



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Date: July 1st, 2025 4:35 PM
Author: Exciting church building

wow lmao

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



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Date: July 1st, 2025 4:36 PM
Author: Soggy balding office



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Date: July 1st, 2025 8:57 AM
Author: Mauve motley locale foreskin

Describe the falling apart.

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



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Date: July 1st, 2025 8:58 AM
Author: smoky old irish cottage



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



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Date: July 1st, 2025 8:59 AM
Author: Angry Ticket Booth

bald

gray pubes

leaky diaper

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



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Date: July 1st, 2025 10:40 AM
Author: Tan associate

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=2Reputation#49062991)



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Date: July 1st, 2025 10:54 AM
Author: walnut hairless station filthpig

Good thing my parents are already dead haha

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



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Date: July 1st, 2025 10:57 AM
Author: smoky old irish cottage

holy shit

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



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Date: July 1st, 2025 2:04 PM
Author: Vigorous potus meetinghouse

1FUCKING80000000000QUADRILLION000000000

POTY candidate

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



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Date: July 1st, 2025 2:11 PM
Author: Tan associate

tyft

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



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Date: July 1st, 2025 4:29 PM
Author: Tripping big deer antler business firm



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Date: July 1st, 2025 4:33 PM
Author: Metal yellow box office idiot

180

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



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Date: July 1st, 2025 4:38 PM
Author: Exciting church building

im gay

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Date: July 1st, 2025 11:34 PM
Author: light codepig



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Date: July 1st, 2025 11:46 PM
Author: anal shrine multi-billionaire



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Date: July 1st, 2025 10:54 AM
Author: Titillating Bistre Newt Jap

When you find a GF half your age.

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



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Date: July 1st, 2025 10:54 AM
Author: walnut hairless station filthpig

Jfc shut the fuck up

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



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Date: July 1st, 2025 11:21 AM
Author: Titillating Bistre Newt Jap

God has blessed me.

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



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Date: July 1st, 2025 11:35 PM
Author: light codepig

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

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



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Date: July 1st, 2025 11:51 PM
Author: Titillating Bistre Newt Jap

Just find another one, if it happens.

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



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Date: July 1st, 2025 2:02 PM
Author: Twinkling Razzmatazz Nibblets



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Date: July 1st, 2025 11:59 AM
Author: dashing personal credit line

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=2Reputation#49063216)



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Date: July 1st, 2025 4:33 PM
Author: brass cracking senate

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=2Reputation#49064023)



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Date: July 1st, 2025 11:40 PM
Author: Vivacious gold mexican water buffalo

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=2Reputation#49065164)