The age when you hit 'peak loneliness' – and other life milestones

A new study has found that 35 is the age at which men feel the most lonely. But when might you feel the most creative or content?

Everybody has to peak sometime. We’re all vaguely aware of this. The problem is that science has taken that vague “meh” of life’s slide and is increasingly converting it into a series of discrete data about when exactly we will run out of juice in this or that sphere of life – from sex to intelligence to muscle mass. And, as if you weren’t already choked by the anxiety of all of those maxima, there are also the minima to make you feel depressed – such as research into “the age at which you’ll feel the most depressed”. This week, a study concluded that 35 is the age at which men are at their loneliest, with 9% of males at that age saying they have no regular friends.

To navigate this Clapham Junction of constantly departing potentials, we have developed this guide to the key ages.

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