Methods for breaking routine for a relationship?

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I'm very into my routine.

Often I'll meet a girl out somewhere but if we start dating they soon realise that I'm much less exciting than that and generally want to stay home with them, but this doesn't go down well after a while.

Does anyone have any tips for helping yourself to break your routine for the sake of a relationship to make yourself less predictable?

I come up with ideas fine, it's wanting to do something other than what I usually do that's the problem.

Maybe you need to re-evaluate what kinds of women you date. There are plenty of home-bodies among women too, but they might not be found in bars since that's the opposite of staying at home and watching a movie

What is it you're discontent with?
Your habits? i.e you want to be more social for yourself.
Or you like your habits? and would like a gf that likes to do the same

Wanting to stay home and watch a movie is perfectly fine for many NT women, if they like you they want to spend time with you
The problem with Aspies and routines is that they put their routine above anybody
I dated an Aspie for three months and there was no way that he could change his routine to spend time with me even at home watching a movie
I came after everything he was doing out of his routine
If you can get out of your confort zone a bit and cancel once in a while your gym or whatever routine you have, to be with her, she will appreciate enourmously
Putting somebody first makes that person feel loved

Brundisium, sweetie,
maybe I am not be the best person to give advice on this since I am NT and we don't experience this panic when we break routines. But I do have issues with other things (what is NT anyway?) and the only thing i can tell you is that when there is something that scares me I push through and do it anyway even if I feel very unconfortable about it. The point is not to feel OK about but to try to do it anyway. Unfortunately, it all comes down to using a language that both you and the NT girl you are with can understand and that it can deepen your relationship. If she feels constantly rejceted cause you rather stick to your routine than spend time with her, she will eventually leave. This does not make her a bad person, but a person that decipher your behavior using her NT experience. Try to remember what your behavior would mean if you were a NT guy. It would mean "I am not very interested in you and I really do not care so much about you". The point is to send her the message that this is not the case. I would also consider explaining to her you are an Aspie and what your challenges are. If she is smart and she cares, she will stick around and work with you to find common ground. I dated an Aspie but he never told me he is. I figured it out after we broke up and I can tell you it would have made a huge difference if i knew because I do care very much about him. The problem though is that I was very confused by his behavior and ended up believing he did not give a crap about me. Again I was interpreting his behavior using NT standards. Good luck.

If your finding that most girls your meeting aren't the stay at home type or want to be taken out, if you aren't a fan of the bar scene per say, if you happen to be in a metropolitan area just find the artsier district with pubs that play jazz or blues, means of getting out that are a bit more culturally festive or perhaps if it is a club they might be more likely to tend toward house or techno than top 40, hip hop, etc.?

Just try to take inventory of what's out there and find things that you have decent proclivity to. If you're saying that you don't mind hitting the clubs or going out to bars on Friday or Saturday that may not be the issue, perhaps its having persistence about Sunday as in-time? As another poster noted, if you go out where the social butterflies are that's mostly what you'll meet - while some of them can be incredibly cool most can't relate to people like us much pass acquaintanceship. Its a shame there really aren't any places to meet women who aren't either all party or no party, I'm in the middle myself and I'd want to be with someone who's perhaps up for going out on the town maybe a few times a month (the high-traffic club districts) but keeping it low profile or local the rest of the time and has a somewhat outgoing introvert psychological disposition. Unfortunately that's a tricky thing to find, looking for compatible values and emotional styles as well adds a whole other layer of fun.

Honestly I don't know what my type is.

Or if any type of girl will ever understand me.

On the one hand I go out most weekends to see bands, eat dinner etc, or play gigs.

On the other if I can't handle people on any given day then you're hard pressed to get me out of my room and off my guitars, let alone out of the house.

And how do you explain the incessant need to rock back and forth rather violently from time to time at home to get it out of your system?

Just makes me seem crazy.

Sigh.

I force myself to break my routine on a regular basis. If a friend offers to do something on the spur of the moment, I'll do it unless I have pressing business to attend to. I've done karaoke, attended a bar, played laser tag, gone to a midnight release of a video game, all things that I wouldn't have done unless a friend asked me to come. Sometimes being with the right people opens you up to new opportunities. I now enjoy a lot of new things because of it. I'm not sure if this helped you or not but I figured I'd say what came to my mind. ^_^