Men age 25 to 35 are having an existential crisis right now

[JacketsOnFire]

I’m 30 but the problem is I have a lack of interest in everything. I don’t want to make a passion a career. I don’t really like people and I’m just unsatisfied with everything.

[DrexylSpivey]

What men are going through is a natural reaction to an unnatural world. We weren't meant to live this way.

[blaykerietman]

This isnt a 25 - 35 thing. It's a man thing

[Kootenay]

Women in crisis get helped. Men in crisis get blamed.

[montanasbigsky]

It's not just a 25 - 35 thing. I'm 60 and my wife left me a year and a half ago after 32 years of marriage and raising 6 kids together. She started working remotely for an ex-boyfriend from college who is now a multimillionaire. Anyway, I now live alone in our home and she is gone. I talk to no one. I doordash to pay the bills. I'm suicidal. I'm seeing V.A. counseling. My kids are involved in their own lives and I rarely hear from any of them. I have no energy to do anything but work and then come home and sit in my chair. I feel like there is no purpose.

[bidden]

It’s simple, we don’t have traditions, a village, and a common belief anymore.

[YouTubeEnthusiast]

I'm 27 and desperately want to have a wife and children but can barely afford my own living expenses.

[CheetoChop]

Just turned 32 and after busting my ass in my 20s for basically nothing I find myself waking up every day to a pointless world with no room for me. Everything is overly sexualized, women don't want families or marriage anymore they want a photographer. The economy is so God damn bad I barely can afford to pay rent let alone anything remotely entertaining. Everyone is glued to their phones. You can go all day without even talking to anyone. This world has changed dramatically in the last ten years. I have zero hope for the future.

[matthewhammond]

Our war is a spiritual war. Our great depression is our lives.

[evanmnbishop]

As a 26 year old man the hardest thing to hear is “your 20s are supposed to be the best time of your life.” If this is the best life gets why am I still trudging along?

[vtmegrad]

It's not better at 50. There are two phases for men now: "where is my life going?" and "how did I fuck up my life so badly?"

[BlueAEMia]

It's like you're on autopilot, you get up, go to work, come home, and don't even know what you're working for. Then one day it hits you, where has my life gone?

[AlfredoShrimp-eh]

Im 30. No GF, no prospects of being able to own anything anytime soon, i just simply exist.

[cccycling]

I’m an older Millennial/Gen Xer (mid 80’s) and what makes it most depressing is that I remember the old times before the Internet made all of human suffering available for everyone with a smartphone.

The happiest people I know are one’s off social media and off the Internet. I think there is a strong correlation there.

[philsbootleg]

I feel like 90% of the stuff I know now at 31 years old I should have known when I was 18.

[joshuaherring]

32, unemployed and an absolute burden to my wife.

Fired because “my skill set was no longer needed” found out 2 months later they hired some kid straight out of school.

Fired because he’s doing my job of 10yrs for less money.

[bigusdicus]

As a man in that age bracket i can confirm everything is NOT ok.

[MillennialDiligence-sxre]

36 here. Been full on having a crisis last 2 years. Family going through insane drama. I’m just going to work. No goals. No wife or kids. No close friends. Just feeling like what is this all about?

[dojocho]

Im a we vets stick together, civilian guys got to realize it aint gay to care about your fellow man....or makes you look weak...My buddy has PTSD bad so some nights he calls me and tells me he needs to drive...so we get in his truck like at 1am and just talk and at times run into homeless guys and end up they are vets. We pull up an just talk about the military and our past like 3am in the middle of nowhere...if we have cash we give it to them need to end this macho Bs and just be like we were when we were young playing in our yards

[Dstims]

I just turned 28 last week. I feel this pressure you are talking about. This pressure to get rich. I have a son and a pregnant wife so I can’t afford to take any real risk anymore. I attempted starting a business and failed. I attempted day trading and lost a lot of money. I thought everything would be good once I got this job at the beginning of the year. A job that has been my dream job for 6 years. Now I sit in my office feeling the same as I always have. Feeling like I haven’t accomplished enough. Feeling like I’m failing my family because I can’t pay bills just on my income. I’ve moved due to the military ever few years for my entire 20s and now I’m in a position where I haven’t made quality friendships with anyone. At this point I find myself realizing that my monthly contribution to retirement and sitting in a job like this is all I got left. I’ve been focused on my career that I don’t even think I have any hobbies or ambitions. At this point I’m just here to put aside money over the next 25 years for my kids so hopefully they can live the life I wanted.