Characteristic evolution timescales for a typical S2-binary disturbed by the SMBH. We show the timescales for the quadrupole approximation in red (Eq. (B.1)), for general relativistic precession in blue (Eq. (B.2)), for rotational deformation in orange (Eq. (B.3)), and for tidal deformation in green (Eq. (B.4)). The dashed black line displays the histogram distribution of the surviving binaries (Fig. 2(a)) and the dashed grey line displays the S2’s age (Habibi et al. 2017).