Reconciling After Divorce

"kturner1015;788373" wrote:
I admit, I usually make my Sims' lives pretty boring. They're always kind of perfect. So I decided to spice things up and add a little drama. For no reason at all, I had the husband cheat on the wife with their neighbor. He got her pregnant, and wife walked in on them woohooing. They got a divorce and husband now lives w/ neighbor.

I thought it would be interesting to see if they could reconcile because I saw there were new interactions between the two, like "remember common interests" and "find a common ground" and stuff. But my Sims were having NONE OF IT. Mannnnn do they hate each other. There's no going back.

Has anyone else experienced this? I wonder if everything is just too fresh right now and that's why every interaction turns out to be a negative one. Over time will all the angry redness disappear from their relationship bars and they could start from scratch?

"Triplis;15442745" wrote:

"Krismarification;15442416" wrote:
How much time? I made a mistake and now my sims hate eachother. But I want them to get married and make babies soon... The romancebar is all red but they are still best friends.. If they try flirting they get all uncomfortable.
So how much time? Like a sims-week? More?

Try using various methods to make them both flirty (there are a couple options from the mirror + there's the shower one). If both are flirty, there's a better chance of success when using romantic interactions.

I don't know that there's actually any kind of time limit on it. What I do know is, after reading this thread, I went into a save of mine where I'd divorced a couple and manipulated them into going all the way from declared enemies and divorced (full red in both bars) to best friends and married again. So it's definitely possible to do. Granted, some days had passed and they were both over the divorce, so I don't know if that factors in.

"Triplis;15442745" wrote:

"Krismarification;15442416" wrote:
How much time? I made a mistake and now my sims hate eachother. But I want them to get married and make babies soon... The romancebar is all red but they are still best friends.. If they try flirting they get all uncomfortable.
So how much time? Like a sims-week? More?

Try using various methods to make them both flirty (there are a couple options from the mirror + there's the shower one). If both are flirty, there's a better chance of success when using romantic interactions.

I don't know that there's actually any kind of time limit on it. What I do know is, after reading this thread, I went into a save of mine where I'd divorced a couple and manipulated them into going all the way from declared enemies and divorced (full red in both bars) to best friends and married again. So it's definitely possible to do. Granted, some days had passed and they were both over the divorce, so I don't know if that factors in.

"Deandylan;15444538" wrote:
Oh yes. Nothing like a good ole drama! I love it. My game play is always like a soap opera. So full of excitement and very interesting. Can't play without it. And believe me, I've tried, but it doesn't work. Even if the first generation is perfect, drama follows their offspring. :p

"Kilov17;15444550" wrote:

"Deandylan;15444538" wrote:
Oh yes. Nothing like a good ole drama! I love it. My game play is always like a soap opera. So full of excitement and very interesting. Can't play without it. And believe me, I've tried, but it doesn't work. Even if the first generation is perfect, drama follows their offspring. :p

Wish EA allowed both a 'Like' AND an 'awesome' cause your comment deserves nothing less!!
I'm guessing you play with 5+ sims in your house lol. I'm always trying to keep it at 1-3 tops lol. I don't imagine 3 sims is enough for a healthy dose of drama lol.

"Goth583;15444576" wrote:

"Kilov17;15444550" wrote:

"Deandylan;15444538" wrote:
Oh yes. Nothing like a good ole drama! I love it. My game play is always like a soap opera. So full of excitement and very interesting. Can't play without it. And believe me, I've tried, but it doesn't work. Even if the first generation is perfect, drama follows their offspring. :p

Wish EA allowed both a 'Like' AND an 'awesome' cause your comment deserves nothing less!!
I'm guessing you play with 5+ sims in your house lol. I'm always trying to keep it at 1-3 tops lol. I don't imagine 3 sims is enough for a healthy dose of drama lol.

It depends on what three sims, you could always do a love triangle and try not to get caught, that's fun. I try to keep my households to 5 max. Right now I'm having one my sim's teenage daughters date an older sim, and that will hopefully lead to more drama.