I'm similar to Chiro - my last band broke up about 10 years ago, I got married, went back to grad school, had kids. For a while all my guitars were in storage, so I ended up selling almost all my gear. I kept one acoustic and one electric. I started playing again about a year ago, and when my then two-year-old son knocked my acoustic into the electric and put a big gash in it, I decided to get a cheap beater to play on until the kids got older. Now I can leave my SX out and who cares what happens to it. The finish is so thick, I don't think the kids could hurt it if they tried.
Also like Chiro, the progress is slow going. I don't pick up my guitar as much as I want, so I don't end up learning much knew stuff. I kinda play the same old thing over and over.