Definitely! I used to play just a single family at a time. I stressed out over how aging would work with rotational play. Playing just one family at a time doesn't allow me to play out all of the stories that I want to play though. Some of my families aren't interested in occult stuff, some of them are. Some of them don't care about having lots of kids, some of them do. Once I switched my head cannon to the mindset that sims aren't humans and ageing doesn't have to work the same way, I have also switched my gaming style.
Now, I really like overlap between different families and don't get too stressed out if NPCs aren't quite the expected age. That being said, I did learn my lesson when I switched from playing a YA sim who had met his soul mate to his parents and brother's household so I could age the brother up to a child and get him ready to be part of the wedding. I must have gotten distracted because the YA's sim soulmate died somehow!