Finding Love Interests

"Chicklet453681;d-981982" wrote:
When I create a story in my head, I will usually will create a single girl without any kids and the guy I want her to get with and they live together and I build up their relationship.

I was wondering how everybody else does it.

Do you do the same thing as me, and make them a household from the start?
Do you create your potential love interest and have them move into their own home? If so, how do you get them to eventually meet?
Do you let the game determine who your sim will fall in love with?

I'm interested in filling my world with some eligible, single sims and just letting things happen as they will, but I've never done that before so any suggestions would be great!

I love threads like this! *rolls up sleeves* <3

In my current save game, I had no preconceived ideas about their relationships (which is just as well as my Sims have a habit of ignoring my ideas completely and just doing their own thing anyway :D ).

I started with 8 sims at University and I've been going with their wishes and interactions to determine relationships. One actually started an autonomous relationship with an NPC dormmate (very on-again, off-again and all autonomous. It was brilliant!) which carried on well after graduation (and ended, then he dated her sister and then her again but I digress).
I used to try and 'set up' certain sims but I've been having more fun leaving it to chance. I've got several mods nudging the situation along with attractions, chemistry and the like and it's been a lot of fun to set up and watch the sims act on it. <3