Please use this thread going forward: Partnered Sims turn into siblings | EA Forums - 4943482
I hadn't played the game for a few months and then decided to load up my old family on the game, I have a little bit of CC but it only affects textures and appearance options and shouldn't be messing with relationships at all. Regardless I noticed that whether I have it activated or not, for some reason now my two sims are sisters as well as spouses. I didn't notice it at all until they had a free moment in their busy lives and I decided to have them be romantic, only to find they could only offer massage or serenade.
I spent the next hour on google trying to find a solution, and nothing worked. I read that it is caused by the cas.fulledit cheat, but I have never once used ANY cheat codes, so it couldn't be that for me. One post suggested using cheats like "relationship.add_bit" or "relationship.destroy" but neither of these had any effect whatsoever on any sim in my game no matter how many times I entered them. I just pressed enter and the text box cleared with no effect.
My theory is this: I have the get to work expack and my sim is a scientist; at one point her work goal was to clone herself, so I excitedly did so, and the clone was listed as being her sister. I don't remember if I had my sim and her wife try romance at all after the clone appeared, but I think since my sim and her clone are identical it could have confused the game somehow?
Anyway, I deleted the clone, but no effect. The damage seems permanent.
I even tried what some suggested as a last ditch effort of saving the family to the library and then loading them in so that relationships could be freely edited, but no luck there either. All relationship options were greyed out with "Cannot edit relationships on pre-existing Sims"
I really hope there is a working fix for this. Idk if people are still regularly experiencing this bug or if its just me. Any help would be appreciated.
This has just happened with me as well, and I think you're on to something with the clone thing, because my sims are spellcasters and one of the them created a duplicate of herself using magic, and now when I look at her family tree...
See, the sim who created the duplicate is the one in the hat, her spouse is on her right (notice that it is now redded out), and on her left is her duplicate AND another image of her wife, BOTH labeled as sisters. They're connected to a parent that never existed, as this sim was originally generated in game. Keep in mind, I can't find any actual double of the wife any where, it just seems that the game has glitched and is now counting her twice.
I tried using MCC to delete their relationship and then restore them as spouses, but it just reverted to the having them be sisters AND spouses the next time I loaded the game. I'm seeing the suggestion to delete ALL the sim's relationships...but man, that's a pain in the you know what. Both of them have built up quite a lot of friends, enemies, and the wife has an aunt and cousin in another household. Deleting and manually restoring those would be at best a hassle, and at worst impossible.
I dunno, this is just really annoying, and I hope someone figures out a better fix before I resort to the nuclear option.
I actually edited their relationships with "remove relationship bit". I had to do this with my sims father in-law, wife, and children only. After that it said the children were her step-children and her wife was her cousin instead of sister, but the family tree was intact.
