That's about the same for me. I've always done it since I was child. Then again I'm the cliche asian guy who knows "karate". It's almost expected, don't know who made up that rule...
Anyway, I enjoy doing it, but I go through phases in my training, sometimes I go hard core fighting like I did with my thai training, sometimes it's balanced where I do a bit of both, sometimes it's more technique orientated...depends on what I'm learning and focusing on. Overall, I can't go long without staying involved in it. I've taken breaks before, the longest one just recently after I broke my wrist back in 2002!!! Two surgeries later and it's still "healing". Getting back into the grove slowly with that hand, as it's still not 100% yet.
Can't imagine my life not doing it really....
"I don't know if anyone is known with the art of "sitting on your couch" here, but in my eyes it is also to be a martial art.
It is the art of avoiding dangerous situations. It helps you to avoid a dangerous situation by not actually being there. So lets say there is a dangerous situation going on somewhere other than your couch. You are safely seated on your couch so you have in a nutshell "difused" the situation."