Sentiments are driving me mad

I feel ya. I just started playing a new sim and he started a romance and they had one bad date (honestly not even sure why is was bad, the game just decided it was a dud date lol) and whenever he was near her, he got incredibly sad or embarrassed since he was remembering the bad date, and the buff just kept appearing every time they got in proximity of each other. Needless to say, I cheated to remove the buff, asked her out on another date and made it the most amazing date ever, so now they only have positive sentiments about each other. So maybe if you try to form another more positive sentiment with the child it will go away and get replaced?

@permanentrose I found a cheat on Sims Community to remove the offending sentiments. Which will be wonderful if it works, I haven't tried it yet. The thing is, they have a really good relationship with lots of good sentiments and then from nowhere this old sentiment from toddlerhood raises its ugly head again. I don't know what's going on. I do have Meaningful Stories, so I hate to throw too much shade without knowing if that mod affects things, but I have seen ppl who play without mods complaining as well so who knows.

Thanks for the suggestion, though. Maybe before I try the cheat I'll get mom to take her on a mommy and me date and shower her with attention. It would be interesting to see if that helps. Provided I can get her out of the rage she was in yesterday just from being in the same room with the poor kid. LOL.

"FatTribble23;c-17766527" wrote:
@permanentrose I found a cheat on Sims Community to remove the offending sentiments. Which will be wonderful if it works, I haven't tried it yet. The thing is, they have a really good relationship with lots of good sentiments and then from nowhere this old sentiment from toddlerhood raises its ugly head again. I don't know what's going on. I do have Meaningful Stories, so I hate to throw too much shade without knowing if that mod affects things, but I have seen ppl who play without mods complaining as well so who knows.

Thanks for the suggestion, though. Maybe before I try the cheat I'll get mom to take her on a mommy and me date and shower her with attention. It would be interesting to see if that helps. Provided I can get her out of the rage she was in yesterday just from being in the same room with the poor kid. LOL.

just have them hug it will make it go away after like five hugs

It needs a lot of tweaking. I had two sisters, like... best friends ever, suddnely having a grudge and I don't even know what it was about.

I wish I liked the sentiments more. And sometimes I do enjoy them. It's just that when I'm trying to play a certain storyline (like my one above) it's super annoying for something dumb to ruin it lol.

well I like them its nice to have a little drama again they go away with a few hugs and I'm sorry just like in real life or they just go away on there own with time

"PriestessBizarre;c-17766539" wrote:

"Forgeron;c-17766535" wrote:
....and I don't even know what it was about.

Bam. This is the key to what is so annoying about it.

I guess in real life we often work out that somebody is mad at us, and we don't know why. Perhaps the developers were going for that kind of approach, but I find that it really just makes the game annoying. I have nothing to work with. What do I need to fix, if I don't know what went wrong, and so on? Perhaps if there was a way to find out - like in real life, you would eventually face the person and say "hey, what gives?" (or maybe you'd just let it slide and move slowly away from them forever more). But to the best of my knowledge, I can't do that in the Sims.

@PriestessBizarre well... maybe they could automatically pause the game, or move the camera to the sims interacting so that we notice what is going on. The notifications aren't enough, they are too generic to me.

@permanentrose I wish I liked them more too. They don't seem to affect my game that much, besides annoying me sometimes. I think they thats cuz they tried to sell them to us as memories, but they aren't memories actually.

"PriestessBizarre;c-17766539" wrote:

"Forgeron;c-17766535" wrote:
....and I don't even know what it was about.

Bam. This is the key to what is so annoying about it.

The only reason I know what all this stemmed from is that at the moment mom tried to bathe her and she had a mini meltdown, I happened to be watching them. I checked sentiments immediately, and there were hard feelings on both sides. If I'd been watching dad weed the plants, I'd have never known what the heck happened. I can only imagine if I didn't even know what caused it, I'd be even more maddened. If that's by design, it's a poor design indeed.

I'll also try the "hug it out" method. Thanks for the suggestion, @comicsforlife

"permanentrose;c-17766540" wrote:
I wish I liked the sentiments more. And sometimes I do enjoy them. It's just that when I'm trying to play a certain storyline (like my one above) it's super annoying for something dumb to ruin it lol.

That's my main gripe. Aside from the annoyance of something so minor seeding a festering grudge that's lasted for years, it's messing up my sim's perfect life. It may be boring, but it's my preferred playstyle, and it annoys me that something out of my control is mucking it up.

I think my only problems with sentiments so far have been them being gained randomly without reason. My sim will talk to new people and right away sometimes gain sentiments about how long they have been friends... they have met! It can get a bit annoying, on the other hand my sim saw her husband cheat on her on the wedding, got angry but no sentiment, he apologised and now they have 2 kids. It seems to be a bit unreliable :(

I have an independent toddler and every time a family member tries to teach him anything he gets defiant and then has a hurt sentiment towards that person for 2 days. They haven't developed any hard feelings towards him yet, but I'm starting to. Getting sad because your grandmother who dared to try to help you with your blocks two days ago just walked in the room is a bit much.