Please use this thread going forward: Romantic Relationships decay/become negative fast with no interaction | EA Forums - 4947168
I've been getting notifications on this reply and surprised to see after 3 whole months this simple yet VERY crucial/important aspect of the Lovestruck update is still broken. Honestly using MCCC to set the relationship decay to 0 helps in it not draining fast but, is just unrealistic. I'm sure if Sims don't interact at all it should decay by default. So using MCCC to set this to 0 is kinda like Cheating. I don't know why I even bother typing this out since its EA but damn the fact that they just do not care is amazing
I don't think this will ever be fixed. The annoying thing is that it's so random and illogical. The couple from my main household has to work on their relationship all the time even though they're 100% compatible, have a steamy relationship and claim to be 100% satisfied. The couple I created after them has zero issues. Before Lovestruck, they were both paranoid and constantly felt guilty because for some stupid reason, they both thought they had cheated on the other and wanted to confess even though neither had actually cheated. These two are right as rain, no matter how long I leave them to their own devices, and those paranoid ideas about having cheated? Those are gone. Just like that. It doesn't make much sense.
I guess I'll just use the cheat that was mentioned in a previous post, give at least one partner in a relationship the Beloved trait. Or I let them do the aspiration for good measure since the main couple meets all the requirements anyway because they've been around for a long time. I just hope it fixes things because people going out on a date every single day just isn't realistic, and it messes way too much with the way I wanna play.
