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1 year ago

Want to turn off Romantic satisfaction

Lovestruck made my sims (and me as well) very unsatisfied... 😞

You just playing your game, trying to do some things, make some money, grow roses, KIDS, get promotion and all of this staff... And you don't really want to pay TOO MUCH attention to your relationship, so your sims annoys you with all of these sad moods from an unsatisfying relationship. Absolutely HATE this. I turned off auto break up, but it's still annoying. If they don't live together and haven't seen each other for a bit, their relationship bar just fades... Like.. why? You don't stop loving a person if you haven't kissed them for a few days!!

And this pop-up "If you continue to be mean to me, I will break up with you"... Dude! We didn't even talk!!

Maybe it just not my type of gameplay, you know. I don't really care about their relationship this much. This is the very first pack I want to return, but I can't... So, my suggestion is:

I don't know if it's possible or not, but I'd like to have the possibility to turn off Romantic Satisfaction completely in game option. I'd make my game way more better.

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11 Replies

slytheringoddes
1 year ago
Amen to that!!
I'm being completely serious when I say this pack feels like it was designed by a 13-year-old girl, mooning over her very first boyfriend. What this game is calling LOVE, is actually quite disgusting and unhealthy.
Co-dependency is not healthy in relationships. Being jealous of your partner's every move is not good. Threatening your spouse with divorce is not how you communicate. And if it only takes mere days to fall out of love with your significant other, then that's not love.
Seriously, this is what crazed, hormonal, naive teenagers think love is. This is the life you daydream about, when you're young & dumb, inexperienced, and convinced you'll spend the rest of your life together because you just celebrated your 2-week anniversary, and you're giddy AF.

Or worse than that, it mimics abuse ...
These new relationships require micro-managing to sustain, leaving no time to pursue other interests — just like the abuser who isolates their partner from outside influence. They now require WAY too much screentime — like the abuser who possesses their lover. The new pop-ups that have mates threatening each other with serious issues — as abusers do to their victims to scare or gaslight them. And Sims relationship bars now go up and down like a rollercoaster — Eerily similar to 'love bombing', the worst psychological weapon in an abuser's arsenal (victims rarely fully heal from this grotesque form of torture).

So ... yeah. This pack is problematic, not just in the form of gameplay (which obviously sucks), but how it can be conceived by others. And yes, as someone who HAS been in an abusive relationship, there are some aspects to the pack I have found triggering.