How many marriages?

For me it all depends on the couple. For the most part once my sims are married it's for life. But there are a few who have divorced, or cause a divorce. lol

Typically, I only keep the Legacies down to one spouse because its just easier once the family tree gets larger. When I play my fun sims I do 2-3 marriages and usually have one of the spouses cheat. The last time I did it was a lot of fun and the sims got caught by 3 of their love interests at the Romance Festival. Needless to say they had a lot of explaining to do and ended up going home alone.

This is the standard, but I've also had plenty of sims divorce and some remarry. Don't think I've ever remarried them for a third time though.

It may have happened that I had some married sims get a bit promiscuous while I was leveling my irl mixology skill, and that may have lead to a divorce or 2 in game, but once my irl moodlets from the juice fell off I reverted to an earlier save and pretended it was all a dream.

It depends on how long they live. 2 is normal because they usually outlive a spouse. In my legacy game, spouses mostly exist for woohoo and babies, so I usually kick them out as soon as they've done their duty. If my heir is a woman, the fathers don't even make it into the house sometimes!

Wow, I’m really surprised at how many of you guys prefer the happy, perfect way of playing the sims. Not that there’s anything wrong with that. I play much, MUCH more realistically... so I don’t really have a “percentage” rate of divorce, but I can say it’s less than 50% that have one marriage.

almost all my sims marry their one & only boyfriend/girlfriend and live happily ever after. I've had maybe a handful that have dated more than one person in their life, but they still only marry once. idk, call me a dreamer. I just like the concept of a one true love.

Married second wife only after the first one had die, or after having a divorce

My Sims marry for life - though they might have a few partners before they settle down. Occasionally, I will invite some sims over to the lot I'm playing and one of them will randomly decide to flirt with another sim in front of their partners, though -.-'

I find it amusing that this poll calls 4-5 marriages a "middle ground"... :D

Anyway, I've never been much of a romantic player, especially not now with proposals being broken, so in the rare cases that I need a married couple, I create them as such in CAS from the getgo and don't even bother with the whole wedding thing. No reason to ever split them up because there's no such thing as conflict in the game, even a cheating spouse is forgiven the moment the sad or angry moodlet fades away.