Sims Breaking Up

"igazor;c-16470348" wrote:
It's fascinating how we each read into the wishes and desires that sims draw and act out on, based on our different perspectives and own personal experiences. I think this is one of the many things that keeps TS3 so engaging over the years.

Here's another example of what we read into things and then find that they were really happening that way anyhow, and not (directly) related to wishes. I played a couple actively for the first time while testing out a mod a few months ago, this was off to the side and although a copy of my "real" game it was meant to be dead-ended as a testing grounds only and the saves from a certain point to be discarded when finished.

This couple, placed together by the game not by me, hadn't been together long enough in sim days/weeks to earn the Faithful moodlets. Yet in a world that was pretty full and busy, and with them constantly surrounded by sims whom they should have seen as attractive, had eyes for no one but each other. One of them is...how shall I put this...not physically fit. And whenever pregnant they are, again not sure of a better way to put this, as big as a house. Their partner doesn't see that or doesn't care, first thing in the morning, first thing when home from a long day at work, as soon as he enters a crowded lot where the partner already is, he makes a beeline right towards them and flirts, kisses, hugs, dances with if there is music happening, but most adorably the dip kiss especially while the pregnant, big as a house thing was going on, all as if no one else was even there.

Figured much of that had to be the way in which I was playing them through the testing phase, of course I wanted this couple to be happy together. But after reverting to the earlier save and continuing my "real" game where I have never controlled them myself, I watched them from a distance and they behaved exactly the same way towards each other whether I was encouraging them to or not. The only thing I've really had to do for them is keep providing more cribs and single beds for the kids they keep producing as they cannot afford to move into a larger, better furnished house on their own. And their dog has had more puppies through romantic interactions with their one and only partner than I can count as well, so it's all contagious apparently.

This is all in Bridgeport, by the way, where at least in my instance of it a significant portion of the local population breaks up with and changes partners as often as some of us change our socks.

I love this game... :)

I've had a sim like that too. It was actually really sweet because the only sim he ever got those attraction hearts for was the girl he dated, other sims would get the hearts walking past him but he never got them for anyone else. I never saw that before.