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@Gednaa This happened to me with a child who had the good trait, so I'm not sure it's the Angelic trait.
I hesitate to say for sure, because it's marked "needs saves," but in my case it's as if the parents' romantic conversation has an area of effect and if the child enters that area... It's not even anything particularly "dirty"; my Sim parents are disgustingly in love and autonomously serenaded each other constantly (to the point where they were level 10 singers) and they lived in a small space, and when the child or teen went into the room while that was happening, BAM! romance bar. (So disturbing.) It was a tiny house, and that means that I would have toddlers maybe two days before they earned Top Notch Toddler and I gave them a cake, so that's probably why I never saw it happen with a toddler.
Because it's marked "needs saves," that suggests to me that it's not that the Team doesn't want to fix it, but that they're not entirely sure why it happens.
(I tend to make all my toddlers Independent, LOL, although I also like Charmer, Silly, and Angelic. We all have our favorite toddler trait, I think.)
I initially blamed the fact that all the adults in the household have Player after an unfortunate incident where, on the third gold date for the Soulmate aspiration (Date is Gold but not yet ended! only five romantic gestures to go and it's theirs!) all of a sudden the wife had an angry "Cheating Spouse" moodlet and a "furious about cheating" sentiment for no reason that I could detect. Their romance bar was suddenly like 75% red FOR NO REASON, so I rage-quit without saving and cheated every played adult in the save Player. On thinking about it, however, that might have been another Area of Effect, where some rando inserted herself into their romantic conversation (as they do, much to my annoyance). I no longer think it's the player trait and instead something to do with physical proximity.
Yeah, when it happened to my child with the Good trait (and his Grandmother with the Good and Family-Oriented traits) my initial reaction was "OH MY GOD I HAVE TO AGE HIM UP AND MOVE HIM OUT RIGHT NOW!" Instead I pretended it wasn't happening, which meant that when he got engaged I had to stop Grandma from slapping him for "cheating." EWWWWWWWWWWWW!!! I used UI cheats to remove their angry and embarrassed moodlets because NO. NO, he's not cheating on his grandmother, that's NOT happening, it's a bug, SHUT UP GAME, NO!
The next time it happened, with a teen and her Mom, I had her Ask To Just Be Friends (ew!) on the spot and that zeroed out the romance bar and it didn't come back, but I also moved to a larger lot around that time.
I've since installed the mod and haven't have the problem again. I kind of feel like I shouldn't have to install a mod to prevent this type of content (trying not to give the CM something to edit) from spontaneously appearing in my game, but I also would rather install the mod than see it. While I know that bugs are sometimes hard to track down, it's still GROSS and very upsetting/triggering to see this type of content in our game!
@Gednaa The mod is here! https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/INFORMATION-Common-Game-Fixing-Mods-Hero-Approved/m-p/9836185#M169140 There's a rule against linking to mods directly, but this one is linked in the hero-approved mods post.
You want Fix For Roommate Behaviors Not Checking Valid Ages by TheFreshSims.
(It's not specifically for this problem, but there was an issue with DU roommates doing inappropriate romance interactions with underaged or related Sims. It adds age and relative checks to romance actions.)
I agree that it's sad that we need a mod to prevent *nc*st and p*d*ph*l** in the game, but there we are. The mod seems to help!
