OP, you're not alone. My children (mainly my daughter) likes to tease me about being OCD. I know my mother appeared to have it, too. But, I don't really believe I'm suffering from that. I do get very attached to my little Simmies and sometimes, I have restarted the very same family but that was mostly because things went horribly awry or when Parenthood was released, I realized the best way to proceed with my family was to start them anew. I discovered teaching teens the Values wasn't really reaping me what I needed. So, I restated this game save again. I aged the teens down to Child Sims, and the Child Sims down to toddlers. The rest were born in-game. Prior to this, I got rid of all the 18th century cc and restarted using contemporary clothing. Another time, I simply had to restart. I left out a few of the children (I'm playing my ancestors) and I wanted them to be from their parents (as in the genetics). However, she was already deceased and in a moment of what I call "Mad-Hatter Moments" I got it into my head to simply put a copy of the parents into the town and have the missing children born to them. With the idea, I would move them in with my original copy of their father. Silly me, that made them roommates, only. Face/palm. One other time the father in the second household electrocuted himself prior to his younger children being born. This was unacceptable. I rolled back a save. (Hey, at least I didn't restart the whole game.)
The good news is I haven't restarted them in quite some time. However, I did get a pair of Beagle puppies at the end of August and am trapped down here on my main floor, until they're fully housebroken. We're getting there, very slowly. So, I copied my game folder onto a flash drive and installed Origin on my laptop and installed that in-progress game. As a result, I'm much further along with the game on my laptop, than where I left off on my gaming rig. I only get up to my loft office on a random Saturday. Hubby has been putting in overtime. My young couple isn't even engaged upstairs. It's odd, too, switching from one computer to the next. I shall have to amend the situation going on upstairs, via MCCC, before the Patch hits which requires we remove our Mods from the game. :open_mouth:
Well, that's my confession. I feel better, don't you? ;)