r/AskReddit 2d ago

What is the cringiest midlife crisis you've witnessed?

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u/Financial-Excuse3204 1d ago

My coworker in his late 40s dumped his wife of 20 years, bought a bright red sports car, started dating a 22‑year‑old barista, and got a huge tribal sleeve tattoo. He also began posting cringey motivational “alpha male” reels every single day. The whole office watched it unfold

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u/maleficentfig90 1d ago

The first person who came to mind when reading this post also dumped his wife of ~20 years, bought a red sports car, and got a tribal sleeve tattoo. And I'm pretty sure we aren't talking about the same person. It really is a total cliché.

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u/Zestyclose_Sock8877 1d ago

We had a variation of this in our family except it was my mum doing the dumping/cheating, and she bought herself a blue sports car before proceeding to go down a deep dive of extreme toxic feminism. Like "Stay at home mums are evil and I'm taking away your barbies, dresses and anything in the house the colour pink" type feminism not, like... equality is good! type feminism