[NEEDS SAVES] Sims who have been best friends/enemies remain as acquaintances
Product: The Sims 4
Platform:Steam-PC
Which language are you playing the game in? English
How often does the bug occur? Every time (100%)
What is your current game version number? 1.66.139.1020
What expansions, game packs, and stuff packs do you have installed? Discover University, Cats and Dogs, City Living, Get to Work, Vampires, Dine Out, Romantic Garden Stuff, Free Holiday Celebration Pack
Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? Play the game, be friends with another sim and date them, propose, marry and also be best friends
What happens when the bug occurs? They stay as acquaintances, even though they are already married and are already best friends. With both relationship bars at max, they shouldn't be "acquaintances" anymore - they've been together since they were teens.
What do you expect to see? At this point, I think the couple should be more than just acquaintances. One of them has a soulmates aspiration, and this is possibly blocking him from reaching soulmates status with his spouse.
Have you installed any customization with the game, e.g. Custom Content or Mods? Never used.
Did this issue appear after a specific patch or change you made to your system? Neutral/Not Sure
Hi! I'm posting this question/report here as I tried to do some research and so far the solution I've found is to restart the couple's relationship. And I just refuse to do that lol it's a lot of work since they have been together since they were teens in High School C. They went through university together, graduated, got jobs and got married so that's just too much work to restart haha!
So anyway, the issue is that as I mentioned, the couple has been together since they were teens. They were friends first but not as close, they started dating and also became close friends. They moved in together, also became best friends, became engaged, and got married. Both friendship and relationship bars are at max but somehow it is still showing that they are only acquaintances.
Adding screenshots here.
P.S. their romance bar is not at max when I took the screenshot as I tried to test if reducing their friendship/romance and then increasing it back would fix the issue but it didn't so I made them fight for no reason basically haha.
Edit By Crinrict: Adjusted Title, added tag