Facts and fictions of the male midlife crisis

Ever since a Canadian psychologist coined the term in 1965, the "midlife crisis" has become firmly entrenched in our popular culture. Barry Peterson takes a look at the facts and fictions behind the male midlife crisis.

[@phycoman4561]

I started laughing when it started out with a corvette

[@pluto4301]

Honestly...

[@neilhunter3144]

This is my boss all over- he reached 50, dumped his wife for a 25yr old, bought a jag and started taking steroids

[@JeffreyGillespie]

I'm with a 22 year old and I'm 46, but I only bought a Jeep. :)

[@danielmedina2078]

Good for him! Youth and strength sounds good to me.

[@danielmedina2078]

@Whitney Stoetzel eww yeah youth and strength make old ladies sick.

[@crystalyn2855]

Just men scared of dying. Wimps!

[@MegaMrWomanizer]

@@danielmedina2078 There are bad sides to that tho. The Bible says “there is a time for everything “ for a reason. My dad had me when he was 65. By the time I was 5 he no longer had the energy to do anything let alone play with me. When I was 15 he was almost on his death bed , couldn’t support us economically and my mom struggled to pay the bills. Then he got prostate disease ... it was horrible. Imagine If he’d been 25 or so when he had me, the good times we could’ve had.

[@ExploringCabinsandMines]

realization of one's own mortality , it's real all right.

[@lillieknight]

My husband died from his midlife crisis. Started hanging out with strippers. Rebelling against his family. Dead at 61. Stripper let him lay there for hours after he collapsed and he lasted 30 minutes in the emergency room.

[@danielmedina2078]

At least he died happy haha! And it was over quick

[@rogerbampino]

He started rebelling against his family at middle aged?? Lol dam.

[@jdlk-ny5yo]

Sounds like a great way to go

[@fingersmcgee2762]

im almost 44 and at some point u will feel time is running out and a urgency on how to use it but the crisis is the confusion of what to do with your time and just going back n forth with ideas so u obsess n compulse like one day u want to save money for the future and tomorrow your like tommorrow is not promised lets buy a corvette and its a kind of mental anguish

[@ExploringCabinsandMines]

realization of one's own mortality.

[@bigbay1159]

Thanks this gives more understanding of a true mid life crisis. So many 18 years old or 20 something's bitching about already having gone through 2 when honestly they have no clue. You can have crisis about anything but a true mid life crisis and it's emotions can only be felt by a person who's actually...hit mid life. I'm close to 30 and have had some odd feelings, nothing bad but I've given thought that my 20s are almost up and wonder what my 30s hold.

[@peyotefinder69]

Thank you for your explanation, I very much agree with the way you’ve defined it. I have graduated from college with 2 degrees, have a career in the field of study I graduated in, I recently got married, having a kid soon. I’ve essentially done what many people aspire to do or to have a sort of the norm. And now I ask myself what.... what’s next?!?! It is very much mental anguish and feeling like I’m stuck. I’m definitely stuck as I’m not sure what goal to focus on in my life now. Like I have no clue what to shoot for, it’s so bad that i don’t even know how to find a goal.... and I’m definitely in that stage where I just want to buy a freaking challenger and get it tuned. What really sucks tho is not being fully here for my wife and being all anxious around my family and future child...

[@colbalt95]

You are actually in your prime years. You can date a woman in her 20s if your paper is straight.

[@Sarnum-ez2sd]

Cars..🏎 🎉This is not midlife crisis this is achieving and working for your dreams!!! Totally healthy!! Go men!!! 🎉👌🏼🥳 For me its inspiring 🎉🙌🏼 to live a full life..!🎉

[@Mii.2.0]

I have a midlife crysis and I just turned 18 today!

[@dev1lm4n63]

Same here

[@flaylikespikachu15]

Same goes for me, even though I'm 32 years old :EDIT: I'm 33 now

[@bigbay1159]

Good for you...

[@Mii.2.0]

@@bigbay1159 Thank you! 😊

[@bigbay1159]

@@Mii.2.0 ...

[@BreenyLee]

contentment over crisis

[@letmebeprivate6890]

Amen 🙏

[@jdlk-ny5yo]

I think the crisis is that you reach a realisation that life is both precious and pointless at the same time, it breaks your brain

[@sunset33533]

The mindfulness book "30 Days to Overcome a Midlife Crisis" by Harper Daniels has been helpful. It's all in the mind.

[@moiusa]

And why is it a "midlife crisis?" No one knows for sure how long someone is gonna live..

[@peyotefinder69]

That’s how I feel and I’m currently 29....

[@Super-yw7ss]

Firstly, I think ppl should be thankful their alive and have reached their mid-life whichever age they think that is cause many DON’T, if your healthy that’s a bonus too, not everyone can make it pass a certain age. Congrats!!!

[@Mr40Smith]

Well, back to figuring out which Ducati I want to get myself for my 39th birthday! 🎉 🥳

[@danielmedina2078]

I use trt and I looooove it no depression or anxiety lots of motivation to work, downside hmmmmmm NONE.

[@ericcalabrese8716]

Idk guys start acting funny in their 40’s

[@joanndriscoll4822]

Accept life and aging you cant stop it !!!!

[@VelvetGal5]

I know some men who are acting like they're going through mid-life crisis & they're not even 50! I'm not close to age 50, but I never acted like my biological clock was ticking. I don't understand some men who are near my age who say complimentary, flirty, praising things to me, yet they do the same thing to other women at the same time. I don't understand why some men are impatient & act like their clocks are ticking. I'm a patient person & don't chase men. I was true to one man this year.

[@danielmedina2078]

Woah a whole year?! Better than 90% of women good job!

[@blast4me754]

I don't understand this topic at all because it's like they're telling men to stop living after a certain age ..As a man I loved cars since I was young so now they're telling me I have to hang it up at 40 ..Why is it when a woman frees herself everybody is cheering for her .

[@gap2145]

Please add captions to this video.

[@southport97]

The ID, pleasure principle and man's super-ego are to blame for this phenomena. Weiner, Sheen, Schwarzenegger..

[@Mii.2.0]

Lol "Weiner". 🤣

[@danielmedina2078]

Blah blah blah psychobabble just accept science can save men from old age !

[@Foxie635]

Every time I see an old man in a sports car, I get disappointed. I was expecting a hot, young, cute guy.

[@benscott6826]

It’s not midlife crisis. It’s men reaching there full potential, realizing they are constantly improving, and there spouse is usually complacent

[@charleshurstreinvention3959]

Largely it is mindset. My topic for my own subscribers this week. So maybe you're at midlife, maybe younger or even mid twenties and you feel you didn't get what you wanted. You look at someone like Stephen King and suddenly you feel poorly about yourself. Don't. Two mindsets to take here. First, most people don't get everything they wanted--they may get a lot, but not everything. Most talented actors or other artists won't make the big screen. But you evaluate what you did get. Maybe family, maybe you did get to that suburb or maybe your job is getting to help people. But maybe that didn't get you to the Bill Gates level. So what? Everyone has there own path to walk. And guess what, Bill Gates and King didn't get everything either. Stephen King has trouble walking because he got run down by a truck decades ago. See? Second point. There is still time. There are many things I can't do now due to age. Can't join the Marines or become an FBI agent. Can't try again at pro thai kickboxing. But I can travel. I can hike. I can see the world. I can keep writing books and keep plugging that vlog. What is left greatly outnumbers what I didn't get and now can't get. That is the take home point--at thirty, at eighty. Hope this helps someone out there---Charles.

[@miguelramosjrqueen3473]

My SEPT DAD CLINT JONES. Might have this

[@Michaelambrose1522]

MIGUEL RAMOS JR Queen p

[@DNAleguillou]

It's called Erectile dysfunction

[@StephEWaterstram]

I'm 45 and I don't feel like I'm going through a Second Adolescence. This must be a syndrome of Men in better Socio-Economic arenas. It's a propaganda Fairy-Tale as far as I'm concerned.

[@absurdtrickster9074]

If you have enough money you can buffer it a lot. If you don't - you are most likely berating yourself that you didn't make enough money and now it will be harder to do so.

[@lennonscat]

the interviewer can't stop touching his face... it's annoying...

[@crystalyn2855]

Men we all die get over it! Dang!

[@sparrowprince3432]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. You say that now, but when it’s around the corner, you’ll cry like everyone else. Lol

[@goldschool9050]

I had a crisis when I realizing that God created everything good and evil

[@Dennisaj]

Midlife Crisis is overblown. Ok

[@jeanette9221]

I think it's a mind programming for making money, how come there's norhing to focus on women on menopause, and the dock well looks 35 physically but in the face he looks his age, just an excuse for men to not grow up.

[@terrythompson7535]

How is a man who is "grown up" supposed to behave? What exactly is he expected to do? Provide security to women who ignored him most of his life so they could bang the "bad boys"? Game over..

[@JeffreyGillespie]

@@terrythompson7535 I would never provide "security" to a woman. I guess that makes me a bad boy. Currently I am dating a 22 year old woman. I'm 46. I bought her exactly one cup of coffee before we became lovers. Women do what they figure out they can get away with when it comes to men.

[@terrythompson7535]

@@JeffreyGillespie Good for you, and bad for women who have no skills that the market has a use for.

[@abbeyna01]

😂

[@colbalt95]

I guess people have gone full it it's and forgot that we are mammals. The male midlife crisis is a natural impulse. Male confidence comes from productive labor so if you've been staying on your grind you're going to reach a Tipping Point where you're going to want to buy stuff because you are the being of productivity so you need to have signs that you are attractive to the opposite sex. You will be approached from women like none other and then you will find out the realization that you settled too early as you are approached by women in your 20s 30s and 40s.

[@chelseashamim9148]

Yes. Men should wait to marry/partner up till at least 30 but really around 40-50. This is how midlife crisis affairs happen

[@pfftwhut7638]

That Pearls Dr, the things he mentions are all testosterone though...and finally instead of all those things that purported to do what test does people started just realizing they can do the real thing. You just gotta weigh quality vs quantity in life. Live a long time but lacking, or live life to the fullest and maybe die earlier LOL but that's not even a sure thing