I’ve started saves with single sims and families. I have three main saves that I play out of. The first I started with a pair of siblings and two potential spouses to kick off a storyline (it went a totally different direction but I ended up creating tons of additional sims). I have another save that’s all families with a bunch of teens, with the intent to give the teens backstories and really play their generation onward. My current save started with one sim, but I’m playing a career legacy so she didn’t stay single for very long. My sims usually end up married pretty quickly (or at least pregnant pretty quickly).
I rarely make partners for my sims in CAS. I have mccc set up to import townies from the gallery; I like the randomness of my sim hitting it off with someone they like and forming a family from that.
