If he didn't see "where it goes" after 10 years, then I am not sure if it's going anywhere. We were never together too much, but that is not the point here. As someone who works a lot, I don't have much time either.
It's just that sometimes I feel tired of the same scheme over 10 years. Always meet at the same hours in a week, never go out, never just meet in the middle of the week somewhere for pancakes and laugh, never buys me some tiny cheap thing to make me smile, it's just always the same. It's what suits him, and he wants to keep it that way. I asked him if we could sometimes just go out for ice-cream or something, he says "I don't do that". Ok, but that would really make me happy. Why is that never important?