Please give us a way to prevent relationship culling for certain sims

But really, what’s the point of the custom relationship labels, if they don’t even prevent any relationships from being culled?

And maybe relationship culling could be paused while sims are unplayed?? Just an idea. It takes SO much effort to constantly re-introduce everyone to the sims they knew last time I played the household. I play the game to unwind from work but this feels like more work.

It’s really impossible to have neutral family relationships with distant or non-blood relatives in the game. You have to be friends or enemies, otherwise you forget the other sim exists. I just want some way to prevent culling of certain relationships while I’m away playing other households.

I am running into the same issue. It is very frustrating. 

I use the Beloved Trait to stop relationships from declining and being forgotten. I add it with a cheat now as it got quite frustrating. 

That's testingcheats true, followed by traits.equip_trait trait_Legendary and that stops relationship decline.

Note that if playing on console, using testingcheats true will disable console achievements/trophies for that save.

Sad that we have to use cheats to fix what EA won't.

On the point of relationships, is it odd that members of a newly created Sim family need to introduce themselves to each other?  I would think, by the time you reached school age you would already know your parents, brothers, and sisters...but maybe my family was just weird because we knew one another.  And why do parents have to have someone introduce them to their newborns...?  This kind of stupidity in design is one of the reasons I build my households at Child age and up.