money, maybe $700 a month as a budget for this
Take the $700 and spend it on doing fun things with your SO, and any family you may have with her.
Do stuff you did that made you happy doing stuff together as you likely did in the past.
This should help to shake the stuck in a rut feeling.
And is so much less of a bomb than the other way you are planning on flushing $700.
I get the urge to wander. Stifle it some.
Talk to dear wife, explain you are going to blow off steam at the strip club, race track, whatever with some pals.
And talk about what you did.
Dont hide it.
I am still with my wife after 30 years of marriage. Kids are grown.
She has a guy pal she hangs with for some fun.
I know him, Is a good friend who got fiscally screwed by ex wife.
She scratches her itch 3-5 times a year with him, mostly because there are often times when there is a distict lack of lead in my pencil.
Unless on vacation and work pressures are out of my mind for while.
And when I feel the need to unwind and she is busy off seeing some movie or play I dont want to see I tell her I have an itch to see the peelers.
We catch up at breakfast.
How was your night, and we tell each other.