ruetine
A "standard progression" of guilty feelings and regret dat one suffers due to his repeatedly performing unwise actions which he realizes are not sensible but still fails to learn/deviate from.
Da aptly-named actress who plays Blanche Devereaux apparently wasn't really all that much different in real life from her "bouncing from one guy to another" Golden Girls character --- Ms. McClanahan had quite a RUEtine of marriages and divorces, six in all!!