10 yrs of the same club same circle same drinks, i can predict every saturday before we even leave the house
feeling weirdly nostalgic and stuck at the same time. f41 m43, married 16 yrs, in the LS since 2015. so a solid decade. our routine — saturday nights we go to the same club (one of two in our metro), we walk in around 10.30, we sit at the same end of the bar, the bartender (we've known him 7 yrs) makes my drink without asking, we hug the same 4-5 couples, we maybe play with one of them or one of the rotating familiars, we're home by 2. sunday is recovery and laundry. its been this exact shape for like... 8 yrs. and heres the thing. its FINE. its actually really nice in a familiar way. we love the ppl. we like the club. our regular bartender is at our level of comfortable now. but i also realized recently i havent been SURPRISED on a saturday night in years. i can predict the whole night before we leave the driveway, including which couple will try to hover and which one will leave first and what music will be playing at midnight. and i don't know if this is "ah the comfort of a long term LS routine" or if this is "you've been doing the same thing on a loop for a decade, wake up". probably both. so the question is for ppl 10+ yrs in — do you also have this exact frozen routine. did you break out of it. did breaking out of it ruin what was working or did it open up a new chapter. and is there value in just keeping the routine and letting "lifestyle saturdays" be like... your bowling night basically. a comfortable weekly thing thats more about the rhythm than the variety. or is that the slow death of what made it interesting in the first place. honest takes only please