Help...I am in a serious rut!!

I feel exactly the same, its not the game's fault, we just have been playing it for too long, at least I have since 2009. First I was blaming my old computer, than I blamed the random saves I kept starting, then I went back to play my old family which is on the 10th or more generation and all gets me bored. So I am trying a new strategy, I keep with my 2 old families that I have been playing for years, but on one of them I can only randomize traits and get what I get, even if its the insane trait which is the one I hate more along with inconvenient. On my other family I will randomize traits 3 times and get to choose one of them. I hope that will help me, maybe you can try too. In my case I always had everything planned like how many kids they would have, their traits, sometimes I would even cheat on the sex so I could marry them to specif pre mades, so now I wont do it anymore