Emotional support across adulthood: A 60-year study of men’s social networks
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#2That's a wide range, isn't it?
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#3> reflecting an average decrease from two to one
What this really seems to be saying is more like "men generally don't have emotional support networks".
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#4"Emotional support networks among men shrink by 50% between the ages of 30 and 90, reflecting an average decrease from two to one emotional support providers"
Or, to rephrase,
"Men grow up with an average of two emotional support providers and lose one in mid to late adulthood"
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#5"Emotional support networks among men shrink by 50% between the ages of 30 and 90, reflecting an average decrease from two to one emotional support providers" Or, to rephrase, "Men grow up with an average of two emotional support providers and lose one in mid to late adulthood"
Any idea how many women have?
The form of this study was specific to men and very long-running, so I don't know where you'd get comparable data. Still, it would be interesting to take a stab at it. Is it 2? 1? 10?
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#6Men typically rely on their wives as their sole emotional support, and then people are surprised when 70% of divorces are initiated by women.
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#7"Emotional support networks among men shrink by 50% between the ages of 30 and 90, reflecting an average decrease from two to one emotional support providers" Or, to rephrase, "Men grow up with an average of two emotional support providers and lose one in mid to late adulthood"
And with such a small sample size, the variance will be high.
For example, I estimate that my own emotional support network quadrupled from about 1-2 before the age of 30 to 5-8 after the age of 40.
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#8That's a wide range, isn't it?
Yeah, you could also say "Most men die between 30 and 90".
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#9Only half?
Thats a really wide range too.
By 90 it is increasingly likely your spouse and close friends are mostly dead.
My emotional support network consists of two people, my long-term partner and my parent(s). My long term partner loves me conditionally (and don’t let anyone fool you into thinking that this is abnormal).
Only your parents might love you unconditionally, and they have a pretty decent head start with their mortality.
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#10> reflecting an average decrease from two to one What this really seems to be saying is more like "men generally don't have emotional support networks".
This is why there’s the joke that the miracle wasn’t Christ rising from the dead, it was having 12 close personal friends in his 30s.