Who will you spend most of your time with?
This chart does not tell anything that we don't know intuitively.
Yet, it triggered a few thoughts:
[1] As you age you are going to spend increasingly more time with yourself. That does not necessarily mean being lonely. But how well you enjoy your own company will determine a lot of your well being.
[2] During mid-life, your time - and mental bandwidth - is almost equally divided between your partner, children, and co-workers. But things change drastically in later life when time with your partner increases disproportionately. The quality of mutual trust and relationship you nurture during your peak - and busy - years would likely be the second largest determinant of your happiness in later life.
[3] Time with children will drop suddenly, generally when they go to college. So, as much a nuisance as they may seem while they are with you, it's worth relishing the time while you still have them with you.
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