Hi @SheriSim57 / @pj9871 / @GalacticGal Thank you for all responding.
I have both Bella & Mortimer in the Young Adult category, and their respective sets of parents as Elders. I think that should be enough distance to set them as children of their parents, as it worked once before. This time around, I could connect YA Bella to her Elder parents, but not YA Mortimer to his Elder parents.
I should have explained better when I mentioned Agnes. I am not connecting the pre-made Agnes from HOB. I made my own, playable Agnes, modelled after her appearance in Sims 3.
It's both simultaneously comforting & frustrating to learn that others have had this issue, too. As far as deleting pre-existing relationships before re-connecting them, it was my understanding that when you download or redownload a family from your library or the gallery, the only relationships that the game remembers are within that household - it will not remember extended family, saved separately. So my main Goth family (Mortimer, Bella, and children) should only know their relationships with each other, and not the extended Bachelors, Goths, etc. So by destroying the pre-existing relationships first before re-connecting them, does that mean I should also remove the pre-existing relationship between Mortimer & Bella, and then with their children, too, and then reconnect them?
I will try to see if I can delete the main Goth families ties to each other first. The problem is, even with cas.fulleditmode on, the option to change the relations of wife, husband, children is completley greyed out. And that's just from redownloading them from my library. So I don't really know how successful I'll be.
@pj9871 If I understand correctly, it sounds like you've had success adding relationships through live mode? When you do that, do the Sims all show up on the family tree in game, or no?
I guess this issue would make more sense to me if I also had been unable to connect Bella to her parents and brother, too; I just don't understand why I can connect 50% of the extended relatives, but not the other 50%. But this is The Sims 4, and we all know it often does not make sense!
Thanks, everyone, for commenting. I'll go give it a try again now.
