Life can spin around in the same repeating cycles if our perceptions, and therefore our thought processes, stay the same. Life is the physical manifestation of those thoughts, so if they remain unchanged then certain sequences of events, in our lives, are going to keep playing like a scratched record until we suss out how to think in a different way.
Then like magic a certain sequence suddenly stops and we can move on from something that has led to great frustration every time the trigger mechanism arrives, we read the signs, but still react in the same way. Vowing to recognise the signs next time and avoid the frustration!