Relationship Status Stuck

Oh 3 other things I tried:

-- Moved him out of his house and into another

-- Turned game all the way off and reloaded

-- Flirted etc to bring the romantic bar back to some pink then asked to be friends again

I have had relationship status get stuck before, and bringing romantic bar back up then asking to be friends again worked before. It just didn't work this time.

(I may be remembering wrong -- perhaps they were "just friends" but with a little bit of pink in the bar so I raised romantic status and broke up again)

Thanks for any help that might be available!

edit:

Tried one more thing:

-- He's an alien, so I had him visit her lot and use alien mind erase on her, still to no avail.

Expected outcome: Going to a "Just Friends" status.

I asked to just be friends with another guy with whom she is "Lovers" (I am working on Serial Romantic aspiration -- same one I was working on before when a relationship status messed up) and he won't go to Just Friends status either, even when I had her cheat repeatedly right in front of him and make unwanted romantic gestures toward him to lower the romance bar.

I asked a "Sweetheart" to just be friends and it worked fine. They became "Just friends."

Is being stuck at "Lovers" a feature of the game? This is the first time I've seen this get stuck and be so unfixable.

Oh man. I asked to be friends with all of them and ended up with only 2 correct relationship statuses. I'll just leave the game alone for a while until I can find a way to fix it.

I ran a repair and update on game -- looks like updates were fresh already. Then I went to a way earlier save that had no romantic relationships and ran through nearly to the end of Serial Romantic aspiration (to kiss 10 sims and have had 8 gfs or bfs) and just broke up with them all before attending University in case it was living in University that had broken the relationship statuses. I really don't know why it broke so bad. I had also previously had a few of them added as club members -- could have been that? Who knows. Thanks for your time in considering the bug. I'll just replay through the University courses and not touch romantic relationships until after graduation.

For the sake of troubleshooting, I’d probably create a parallel save and set up one of the stuck lovers as a playable character and see if the problem persists. After running the reset game ritual, since that resolves random bugs for me.

FWIW: just before the recent update, I ran through a series of just be friends actions and all of them generated the expected result.

Excellent idea. To be honest, since I am not sure if I was really able to fix it or not, I am still nervous it's going to break on me again. And being nervous about a bug this bad make game play less relaxing. Thanks for the reply. I'll take a look.

@CastleCatt 

No prob. Creating a parallel save lets you troubleshoot without impacting your primary gameplay save. In the least, you wont be worse off for your experimentation.

Feel free to follow up. I have one Zoom call this morning (🙄), but - man! - the 2nd largest upside to sheltering in place is the spike in quality time I get to spend with my ipad. (Zoom is a def downside, imho - not a fan of video conferencing - all that visual input is a total distraction - especially watching myself in conversation lol)

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Good luck. Stay safe! And wish me a little focus power, if you want to do a good deed today.

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I tried using a delete relationship cheat and must have typed something wrong as it didn't delete anything. Perhaps they have to be in the same household for it to work, which can't be done until after graduating (or quitting uni) 😉

I don't know what MCCC is, but I appreciate the helpful advice all the same.

And yes, the social isolation is just about the weirdest thing. I am really grateful for the tech we have available, compared to the last great pandemic, which I hear was in 1918. But I hang out with a friend every Saturday and these days it's in video conference, which is getting old fast indeed.