Right, there are some young ****s on here (Muir etc) and there are some older gentlemen on here (names redacted out of courtesy). I'm approaching my 37th birthday. I've already had my mid-life crisis - it was easy, lots of shagging and being a prick to my missus and burning the candle at six ends - the only difficult bit is keeping your life together after it (keeping your kids when you've been caught red-boabied in the wild tuna rapids). But now I'm at a phychologically harder stage in life. Despite not wanting to use a mis-coined term, I think I'm having my "manopause". I'm all emotional at times and extremely aware of the fleeting and transitory nature of time, existance and the mortality and shifting physical nature of those you love. So, guys that are older than 45, is this a post-midlife-crisis period that you grow out of or will I be really easily emotionally affected by EVERYTHING like a ****ing wummin for the rest of my days?
I didn't find 30 or 40 a problem and and not that bothered about being 48. Not as if you can do anything about it anyway. To be honest when I was a teenager I used to think this age would be ancient but you re-evaluate and trundle on. Everyone has regrets of one sort or another. To be honest I've been going through a crisis since my early 20's so I'm well used to it now and consider it a friend.
When you find yourself arguing endlessly on the internet with 16 different people on 4 different internet mediums about 'football' then your mid-life crisis is just beginning....
It takes a bigger man to admit his emotions. Like it or not you get emotional at times too but just aren't man enough to admit it. As one of ER's favourite bands, REM, once said, eveybody hurts
I reckon your only option now is to chokey ****. Good enough for Speedo (amongst others), it's good enough for you.
You are absolutely correct Bealey. Fingers is repressing his emotions and will more than likely have a complete mental breakdown next year when he reaches 50.
Manopause ? Away and bile yer heed ffs ! Man up next it'll be yer a metrosexual ffs . Apart from the occasional blubber at Emmerdale I have never suffered from the symptoms you describe . You are obviously ****ed up in the auld noggin . I widne fear about reaching forty you will probably top yerself before then . Did you do a lot of drugs in your youth ? Perhaps that could be the cause of your current mentalness .
All that pent up anger and beel, this one is rife for the funny farm folks. He's off the beelometer scale. Must be the lack of self esteem.
Having read your post, I can confirm that your symptoms are nothing to do with a post-midlife-crisis period that you'll grow out of. You're simply a latent homosexual. The good news is that society is superficially more tolerant of this kind of perversion than it used to be. Of course, inwardly all right-thinking people will be disgusted by you and your ilk, but people are a lot more adept at disguising their revulsion these days. Hope this helps.
