Re: About flirting to friend sims

Play with jealous sims much?

Jokes aside, I can see the problem, Sims shouldn't autonomously flirt unless there's some external reason to flirt, and just being receptive of a flirt isn't the same thing as being the initiator. But honestly? This is exactly why the jealous trait exists, it's the "Deeply Betrayed" by "Common Flirt" mechanic, it's a negative trait to be sure, but it's realistic. I honestly tend to stay away from negative traits as much as possible and generally don't have this issue (mind you I don't flirt much to begin with)

I don't play with Jealous Sims, no.  I tried it once and was deeply annoyed by it.  She was constantly either tense or uncomfortable.  Tense: my spouse isn't standing next to me.  Uncomfortable: my spouse is talking to someone who isn't me.  Sheesh!

The worst examples of "someone flirted with my spouse and I got an awful sentiment" were 1. Good, Family-Oriented, Cheerful, and 2. Geek, Genius, Cat Lover.  The first one was on the third date for the final level of the Soul Mate aspiration, and they'd already earned gold, and all of his queued romantic interactions sent their romance bar to like 75% red so I rage-quit without saving.  The second was a legacy save immediately before I planned to conceive the heir.  *facepalm*  The Legacy Challenge has the rule that you're not allowed to rage quit so I had him spam smooth apology over and over and over again while plotting their horrible deaths.  😉  (I didn't harm them, but I did stop playing them. I just... can't let my Sims die, which means the Legacy Challenge isn't for me.)

It has nothing to do with the jealousy trait.

I avoid that trait like the plague and even cheat them all the Player trait to avoid the situation, but still ended up with an issue where I forgot to give one of my couples the trait and some rando forest ranger decided to walk up and flirt with one them and his husband got the whole betrayed attitude and caused damage to their relationship - drama I do not want in my game.

What @Slytherclaw72 said.

There's drama--I recently played with a family whose father recently died, my Sims seem to get abducted by aliens and come home pregnant a lot, etc.--and then there's the kind of drama I can't stand. I don't think jealousy is cute and hate it in my game.

Precisely.

This type of drama is precisely why I avoid the jealousy trait in the first place.

More importantly, if I did choose to explore it, I want to do so on my own terms, not just because the game decides to randomly insert a stalker forest ranger (who I eventually killed because he would not leave my sim alone).