It does take about 7-8 months to get through a season with playoffs. Work sometimes sidetracks me for a few days where it's either see the wife and kids in the evening or play a pretend baseball game. Future health depends on seeing the wife.
It can be a little odd with the "offseason". One year, it happened to fall in mid-December, which was great because I just took the next three weeks off. Another year, I literally finished the season one day and simmed through the offseason the next day, was playing game one of the next season within 48 hours. Honestly, that blew up because I got about a week in and was wiped out emotionally (had won the WS the previous "year"). I wasn't ready to start up again, so will do that differently if it happens again.
I have had a few saves through the years as I was probably 3-4 years into one when 3-D came out, and that just changed the game for me. I had done the Red Sox starting in 2013 through 2016 or so, but when 3-D hit, I really wanted to go NL and play as a smallball team. I then did the one mentioned above, tried a few others that lasted a week or month, and finally found my current setup where I am in year 3.