sims won't interact with furniture like chairs, beds etc

prefacing by saying i do use mods and cc but my final test was with my entire mods folder cut pasted out and the problem persisted. basically everytime i make sim interact with say, a chair (sitting) or sleeping in a bed, napping, sitting on it etc you get the idea they stand in one place and the action continues finishing in the action bar anyway? they're not actually interacting with the furniture. screenshots attached