They take each other for granted and fall into monotony.

It’s human nature to get into a relationship and get so comfortable that either party gets lazy.

Instead of going out on a date like they once did in the early months of their relationship, they choose to stay home and watch TV.

In lieu of having new experiences together as a couple, they choose to keep doing the same old activities.

Rather than asking the right questions of each other to keep learning more about each other, they fall back on the information they already know about each other and delve no further.

The guy and girl in the relationship end up being far too complacent with each other, and neither one does anything to make the relationship more dynamic.

It’s no wonder that they end up getting tired of each other.

There is nothing new.

Everything is predictable.

They are making or ordering the same food dishes that they always do when they hang out every evening after work.

They are watching the same TV shows that they always watch together when they hang out on any given evening.

The rare moments they choose to go out on a proper date, they go to the same restaurants, lounges, and cafes.

If they are hanging out with friends, they are hanging out with the same old friends.

All of this is a recipe for fatigue.

A fatigue that materializes surreptitiously and expands over time.

The problem is, by the time the couple realize that there is fatigue, they are so used to the monotony of the relationship, neither one is ready to do anything about it.

There are minor complaints made about the fatigue every now and then, but neither party takes it much further than that.

It’s too comfortable for the guy to sit around and play video games, and the girl to spend hours on social media, without having to bring forward an idea on what to do on a Friday night.

The fatigue eventually becomes so overbearing that it affects what was considered to be the safe areas of their monotonous relationship.

It used to be easy to sit around and watch a TV show together.

Now, not so much.

Instead of doing as you have been doing with each other for months in peacefully watching the same old TV show, someone is restless.

Watching the TV show isn’t as enjoyable as it once was, and someone is leaving the room to do their own thing somewhere else in the house.

The mundane activities that you have gotten so used to sharing together are no longer as fun.

The takeout that you order together all the time is no longer as fun to eat together.

Someone is choosing to take their takeout food to the next room and eat it there.

You get so tired of each other, that even the most mundane activities you would do with each other get stale.

It becomes a chore to be around each other and do those safe and mundane activities.

Inevitably, once you have reached this stage in a relationship with your partner, the relationship is practically as good as dead, if it doesn’t get a shot in the arm.

A shot in the arm as in, someone introducing a bunch of new activities to do, a new form of communicating, a new set of goals for the relationship, etc.

Regardless, it’s probable that once the fatigue has gotten this far, it is too little too late.