But I def experience provider fatigue sometimes!....As much as I tour and am constantly on the go! It's Bloody exhausting..

I suppose for you hobbyists it depends on how often you are seeing ladies?..

You are discredited...

Bragging about BBFS several months ago...not cool!  You should know better!

With disdain...

I only hobby when I travel (about once every couple months), I tend to play in bursts (so to speak).

2-3 sessions in a week's time, then a work-induced break.

I would think that fatique would set in for a provider more than a hobbyist.  Some of the travel schedules that I read are totally exhausting!!!   I do and I don't understand why they do it!!!???!!!!!   I certainly understand that wallet fatigue, too!!!   I'm fairly selective and would like to find one or two favorites that I can relate to in the hopes that any "fatique" will be replaced by freindship.....

and you are suffering the effects of same.

Now if someone wants to set up an SO relationship with a gal, that's up to them.  But expect to have the good with the bad.

I've had favorites for years and years, and I never tire of them.

I've had a few favorites that things got too much like you describe, and I cut them out of my life.  I had a wife and I don't need another, at least not like that.

I do have one very good SO relationship, but that requires a lot of work, but I enjoy it as it is rewarding.

Hobbying is for fun, and when we make it about all kinds of relationship issues, it ceases to be pure fun and becomes something else.

Then, as others have point out, there is the financial problems of this day and age; and that is a drag on my hobbying, but I remeain thankful for what resources I still have.

I am completely burned out on the "hobby" mindset....

which for me has been the pursuit of variety for its own sake. This no longer interests me. I am very content to see a very few regulars with only rarely occasional new acquaintances.  It takes a great deal any more to interest me in meeting someone new.

Sometimes you can have too much of a good thing.

a fellow hobbyist, slightly more experienced than me, that the average hobbyist on TER lasts about 6 months, and then either goes off the grid, focusing just on girls, or a girl, he knows, or just quits, and that the average provider works for about two years.

I have no idea where he got these statistics. Anyone else here this?

If the one about hobbyists is true, then it would be more rare to not suffer hobby burnout than to suffer it.

In any case, in addition to showing bad form with the BBFS crap (good catch on that), the OP also sounds more like he is suffering drama fatigue. I have had a little of that lately - everything being so much more complicated than it needs to be. Not in this for drama, ladies, just fun. Thought that was the goal for all of us, but for some that is def not the case.

Zig

"hobby fatigue" is a contagious malady

as client who tends to repeat, but who has only humble charms and limited social skills i find that my favorites tend to become fatigued. then i catch the disease. ah well. fortunately there is a cure and it is never terminal.

get tired of only eating those entrees.  There is such a thing as too much of a good thing; as in hot women.  Sometimes I need a break to re-charge the batteries.