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Men lose half their emotional support networks between 30 and 90

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Men lose half their emotional support networks between 30 and 90

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Men lose half their emotional support networks between 30 and 90, decades-long study finds
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Men’s emotional support networks shrink by 50% from ages 30 to 90, with early parental warmth predicting larger networks. Marriage consolidates support to spouses, while retirement has no effect, highlighting aging's impact on socioemotional connections.

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  • jordanlund@lemmy.world
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    Wait, men are supposed to have emotional support networks?

    • billwashere@lemmy.world
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      As a 54 yo man, what’s a support network?

      • Microplasticbrain@lemm.ee
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        34 yo male here, I think its when you make a girdle out of ethernet cables

        • billwashere@lemmy.world
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          Ok this really made me laugh of loud. Thank you!!

      • ZoopZeZoop@lemmy.world
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        What we aim to be for our kids.

        • billwashere@lemmy.world
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          no kidding… well when I can get them to talk to me. <sigh>

          • ZoopZeZoop@lemmy.world
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            Knowing you’re there when they want you is support, too. That’s where we start.

  • DreamButt@lemmy.world
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    What a weirdly wide timeframe to consider

    • EvacuateSoul@lemmy.world
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      Well, you will have to consider it alone.

  • De_Narm@lemmy.world
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    So, within the next 60 years one of my close friends probably dies? Sounds about right.

    (The article actually specifically states that it does drop from 2 to 1 on average. Couldn’t find a number for woman in there.)

  • ironhydroxide@sh.itjust.works
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    I wonder how they figured out the indicator for half of zero.

    • billwashere@lemmy.world
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      It’s some new math. Like infinity + 1.

      • ZoopZeZoop@lemmy.world
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        So, theoretical.

  • YtA4QCam2A9j7EfTgHrH@infosec.pub
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    Study - most people die before 120

  • ChexMax@lemmy.world
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    This is idiotic. Admittedly, I’m not wasting time on the article but… Duh! Between 30 and 90 all of your parents/aunts/uncles and half of your friends are going to die. The fact that they think you still have half at 90 is crazy. Unless your grand/great grand kids are providing emotional support and you end up with a ton of them… this is too wide of a range to be of any use.

  • n3m37h@sh.itjust.works
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    Emotional support network?? Whats that??

  • FilthyShrooms@lemmy.world
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    Funny, mine already halved and I’m nowhere near 30!

  • Dasus@lemmy.world
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    Oh you fool. You can’t divide by zero.

  • ThrowawayPermanente@sh.itjust.works
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    I’m going to just go ahead and not share this one with my mother

  • Lennny@lemmy.world
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    Rise of fascism is when you divide by zero enough times I guess…

  • Glasgow@lemmy.ml
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    Sounds high considering most people aren’t living far past 70

  • protist@mander.xyz
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    That’s a big leap from “235 men who were originally recruited as Harvard University students between 1939 and 1942” to “all men.”

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