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what's midlife crisis?

Lithium381

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Is that the same thing that happens to guys, sorta like menopause happens to women? is it a hormone thing?
 

Zim Hosein

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I think it's more of a mental thing where a man looks at his life and says to himself, "I wish I did that back then." "That," being the biggest mistake he ever made in his opinion.
 

Zim Hosein

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Originally posted by: Lithium381
well what would be the male equivilant of menopuased?

Hair Club for Men and Viagra :p
 

Phuz

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It can be a number of things...

The person will have a breakdown, anxiety, etc... the person might feel like they've flatlinned.... they aren't going anywhere....they aren't happy with their lives.. maybe they had higher expectations as to where they'd be at this stage of their life.. not happy finacially, with their spouse, not seeing their career developing....

Those are all fairly typical/common concepts of what a mid-life crisis are...
 

KenGr

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It's the result of realizing how much better things could have been if you had gotten smarter earlier.

I doubt that anyone 19 can really understand it. I couldn't at 19.

 

Zim Hosein

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Originally posted by: her209
It means trying to get a 19 year old girlfriend when you're 40.

Reminds me of American Beauty :)
 

xirtam

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If you ask me that again I'm going to go buy a sports car, find a beautiful chick, divorce my wife, do the new chick, marry the new chick, become a drug dealer, and move to Tahiti.

<--wakes up from his nightmare, he's only 20 and gets to make this decision for... yes... the first time.
 

her209

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Originally posted by: xirtam
If you ask me that again I'm going to go buy a sports car, find a beautiful chick, divorce my wife, do the new chick, marry the new chick, become a drug dealer, and move to Tahiti.

<--wakes up from his nightmare, he's only 20 and gets to make this decision for... yes... the first time.
So are you the new chick?
 

Geekbabe

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It's the feeling that you're too old to start over in a fresh career,too old to be considerd attractive to the opposite sex coupled with the realisation that you are going to probably live another 40 yrs before finally,mercifully dying.
 

xirtam

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Originally posted by: her209
Originally posted by: xirtam
If you ask me that again I'm going to go buy a sports car, find a beautiful chick, divorce my wife, do the new chick, marry the new chick, become a drug dealer, and move to Tahiti.

<--wakes up from his nightmare, he's only 20 and gets to make this decision for... yes... the first time.
So are you the new chick?

:eek: Sure hope not.