Random thoughts on midlife crisis

orcrist747 · 2017-10-22T07:43:43+00:00

This post hurts a raw nerve. I’m currently experiencing Midlife crisis and most descriptions here are spot on.

I’m late 30s, well educated, married, new father, enjoying a career that I’m passionate about. There is nothing yet obviously wrong in my marriage. Nevertheless I feel a constant emptiness. I work in betacuckpilled tech industry where everyone is pretty much a cookie cutter copy of me. They’re apparently having time of their lives, posting well liked feminist articles on LinkedIn and tweeting selfies from Grace Hopper conference.

I bought into the marriage myth because of cultural pressure, my dick, and ‘you need companionship’ pitch.

I yearn for freedom. I want to leave everything and find a job at a construction site for a month. Then in a car repair shop, then travel a bit using some of my saved money.

But I cannot do any of these things, because I have to provide for my family. I cannot bring myself to abandon my wife and my infant son for no fault of theirs. Yes this is my position despite knowing the female nature. I’m a prisoner of my own moral code. I see no other choice but to continue to provide and bear the consequences of my actions. Then my watch ends.

This void is deep and cannot be filled by buying boats or hitting on interns.

Sorry for a potentially low effort comment. These thoughts flowed unfiltered.

sonic1101 · 2017-10-22T07:01:27+00:00

If you are MGTOW you are immune from mid-life crisis. A mid-life crisis is the sudden shocking realization that you have been wasting your life doing what society told you to do (blue pill) and not what you really wanted to do. You suddenly wake up and realize "I never wanted this shit!". And then you desperately try to do something different. But if you are a red pill MGTOW this can't really happen. This is an excellent topic you have raised here that does not get talked about enough. Yet another benefit of being MGTOW.

SJWsPlzDie · 2017-10-22T07:10:26+00:00

As others have pointed out, one big contributor is men realizing they've thrown much of their lives away on blue pill lies.

Another factor is men realizing their wives are aging. Men are reproductively viable much longer than women, so it makes sense at a subconscious level that they would attempt to make themselves more attractive (buying sports cars, etc) to attract younger women who are still fertile. Going MGTOW makes you immune to this problem, as Sonic1101 mentioned, since there is no time wasted as a blue pill slave or legally bound to a woman who is rapidly declining in fertility.

If we lived in a sane society, we would encourage women to marry older men so that each partner is peaking and declining in sexual market value at about the same rate. Instead, like almost everything else these days, shaming techniques are deployed to attempt to get men back to the plantation and paper over the politically incorrect truth.

arkyleslyfox · 2017-10-22T10:16:36+00:00

I think its when you achieved everything society (and Disney) told you to achieve in order to reach happiness, and when you get there you realise it was all a crock of shit cos you're still miserable as fuck, and you try to relive your youth

Title	Random thoughts on midlife crisis
Author	plumplumber111
Upvotes	17
Comments	7
Date	October 22, 2017 6:53 AM UTC (8 years ago)
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