At what point do you break up a couple?

• Their traits don't gel.
  
• They don't spend time together.
  
• Things aren't moving forward, naturally.
  
• There is no woohoo.
  
• There is only woohoo.
  
• They want to woohoo with someone else.
  
• ARGUINGALLTHETIME.
  
• They're only in this relationship because Maxis.
  
• Their traits are the exact opposite.
  
• They're a serial romantic cheat.
  
• I begin to doubt why I/Maxis paired them.
  

I would also like if divorce was expanded upon when children are involved. Two main points; Child custody (shared or otherwise) and registered step-family within family trees.

I break up couples whenever I feel that they don't truly love eachother anymore, or when I just get bored of them and want them to go, or when I just don't want them anymore and I feel like they just become a big hassle to take care of.

When it feels forced and ingenuous, basically, when they fall out of love.
I've divorced/ broken up two couples.

The first because the spouse was too lazy, and kept bringing women over while his husband was at work. (5 at once! Autonomously! They just kept coming). I felt bad because they had a step son and adopted son together, kids that don't deserve to be tossed around again.

The other because I liked the 'idea' of them, and forced them together, but they never had chemistry. They each ended up meeting their respective soulmates right after they broke up.

I'm disappointed when marriages don't work out, but I'd rather get them over and done with and move on to something better. So I just shrug it off and divorce!

Otherwise I kill one of the sims off, so the marriage didn't technically 'fail'. But I have no qualms about splitting up married townies, unless I like the couple.

So, 1/3 of my marriages end in separation, but that's better odds than in real life.

I break up couples all the time, but I always feel guilty about it.

I don't do it. Hurts too much, them and me.

I just split up a married couple when I realized that they had stopped talking and were going out of their way to avoid each other.

At first, I thought it was my imagination but as I started to watch them, I realized that something was definitely wrong. The only time they interacted with each other was when their Social meter was yellow. Even then, I noticed that there'd be a quick hug followed by chatting just long enough to get Social back to green. They didn't dance to stereo music or watch TV like they used to. That's when they used to chat and flirt with each other. But now, I noticed that there was absolutely no romantic stuff happening, not even a simple flirt or blowing a kiss.

It looked to me like the wife was doing most of the avoidance. She'd be the one to leave the room when her husband came in to dance or watch TV. He'd be the one to come and hug her and chat for a bit before leaving her alone.

Neither one had a side romance going on. I have no idea what went wrong. They were still Soulmates and Best Friends, but they were obviously done with each other. It made me sad.

I only do it for story, a simmer on here shared a idea and I liked it a lot I wanted to do it as well, because not all families are happy. I had two kids growing up and the idea was for them to marry and have kids but then the husband would cheat on a much more hotter sim, I wanted to do this and while on a date the boyfriend pushed his girlfriend autonomously from the mischief interactions. I want to play it along its slowly building up that he’s growing tired of her and will eventually cheat on her when their older. It adds for more fun

Tbh for this new legacy I've been doing for fun, I usually let any noncommittal sims divorce once they've had all the kids necessary for the challenge.

"kemisz;c-16604344" wrote:
I break up sims all the time so I kind of feel like an outlier here.

Me too. The US divorce rate is around 50% so I add the occasional breakup in my game for realism.

I have not encountered problems with my married sims couples, as I make my sims wait a long time before I let them marry - so it has not came up. Usually if there are issues and they are not very compatible I see that long before they go to say "I DO" - and if there are issues then there will never be an "I DO" for that couple. I sort of just let them drift apart - so that way there are no hearts broken and no children involved. I do not allow my couple to try for baby until they have been married a while and both seems to get the thought bubbles for babies and such.

I want no part of children upset over parents breaking up - so I avoid the issues before they can occur.In fact I will not even let my couples get a pet until they are right for each other - I don't want their pets upset either. LOL.