I'm sick and tired........ Should I just give up?

26 real days is a lot of time to be put into a family like that.  So first of all, congrats on making it this far with them!  Secondly, I'd try to keep it going if I were you.  I'm a micromanager of my own sims, so I hear you on that.  But I've sternly told myself that I'm going to try to let my non active sims have free will more, when I play.  (Though right now there's only one sim in the household I'm playing.  So we'll see how good I hold to my own stern tasking once there's more!)

When family gameplay starts to annoy me a bit I move onto the next household. I don't scrap a save as I'm building a community in one save file. I want to keep seeing how the families get on and then have new families befriend them. I like to make kids clubs and invite the kids from my previous households to keep in touch with them. I also link them as cousins to keep extending the family beyond that household. I'm very maternal over my little simlets. If I see them around the game I do check if they look happy but if I see them at the hospital I freak out (tell self they are only pixels repeatedly, calm self 🥺).

But my biggest tip for family gameplay is reward traits. Everyone has Steel Bladders, everyone has Carefree and Hardly Hungry and Incredibly Friendly, Seldom Sleepy. Basically any reward traits that make them lower maintenance. I either get them for the whole family including kids by completing the Making Money Scenario at the start of the household or by using cheats to add aspiration points. But I refuse to play families without them, I just find it impossible to juggle all those needs if it's a large household. 🏡

simsplayer818​ What is/how do you use, the cheat to get more aspiration points?  I used to know of one, but I think it became defunct after one or another of the game updates...

So yeah, if you can tell me how, I'd really appreciate it, thank you in advance!

My main save I have played since 2014!   have played since 2014!  I play rotationally and usually with aging off most of the time..  I get attached to my sims.  When I get tired of playing one household, I will change households.  Occasionally as sims progress in jobs and wealth they will change homes.  Many singles will break into pairs, etc.  I try to make my households different so it is not so repetitive.  I have all packs so there is quite a variety to play my households.  I prefer micromanaging so that doesn’t bother me, though in larger families sometimes I will see some cute things happening like a grandmother visiting with her teen age granddaughter,  sitting on her bed and talking to her.  Or a grandfather and his grandson dancing to the radio, while I’m tending to another sim.  Those kind of things warm my heart.

 I would just say if one family is frustrating you move on to another, or create a new household.  I have one pair of sims that love to vacation, another sim that enjoys dating around, one family just moved from the city to have a horse ranch. My artist from the city moved to tartosa to open an art gallery.  One family are writers. I have many families to choose from and they are interconnected as friends and acquaintances. I have children’s groups of friends, groups of scouts etc., a group of socialite women that get together at a cafe occasionally, some criminal sims that meet at a lounge and play poker,  a group of teenagers that hang out at houses, malls or arcades….,a lot of different varieties of things to do.

serendipity38​ no problem, here are the codes you'll need:

testingcheats true to enable cheats first, followed by:

sims.give_satisfaction_points then add the amount you want to add after the space. I usually do sims.give_satisfaction_points 50000

I just used it so it should work for you 🤞. I'm on console and it disables console achievements and trophies but I figure it's worth it for smoother family gameplay! I've only used it on ages child and above though. I don't think I've used it on the ages below child.

Please don‘t give up. You put so much time and efford into this save. 

simsplayer818​ Thanks so much!  I'm on a PC, but hopefully it'll work for me as well.  I'll try it next time I'm in game.  Thanks again!

I play on long life and find the newborn, infant and toddler stages tedius very quickly, I will often play another household without little ones, at the same time and wait till they age up. If I get really fed up I bake a cake and have a birthday party.  But I would never give up on them, I just couldn't do that to my simmies.

simsplayer818 wrote:

I also link them as cousins to keep extending the family beyond that household.

simsplayer818​, I'm curious how you link them as cousins. Do you mean you're able to do that in a way that shows in their family tree? And, if so, how? (I have a few of my older sims that I now wish I could create family links with some of my younger ones, but have yet been able to find a cheat for this.)

serendipity38​, type "the sims 4 aspiration points cheat" into your browser's search bar, or, alternatively, you can bookmark the following Cheats Guide that I'm linking below for you. (My TS4 experience is slightly sadder now that Carl is no longer producing his guides to the new expansions, game packs, and stuff packs. )

The Sims 4 Cheats