Something weird happened. And I mean WEIRD

"Catzilla;c-17490283" wrote:
@GalacticGal Yeah, sorry. I don't know why a sibling would come up as a romantic possibility even with him being a superstar. Have you checked to make sure their relationship is still intact as bro and sis? Weird stuff happens sometimes.

No, but you make a very good point. I'll have to check that out. I've downloaded saved Sims families from My Library only to have to reset their parents as married! Now I know why they say "Weirder Stories". Oi! I surely didn't think they'd built them into the game. :open_mouth:

@DoloresGrey I get where you're coming from, but in the near Past it wasn't uncommon for first cousins to wed. It was all about keeping the land 'in the family'. Somewhere along the line, society/science stepped in and put a halt to the practice. Too many imbeciles and other health problems were occurring because that weak gene when mixed with a like weak gene breeds problems. Now, in the USA, you can't marry a cousin any closer than the third cousin level.

Speaking of cousins that marry each other; did you know that Queen Victoria married her 1st cousin Prince Albert & that they had 9 children together?

I just hope they will fix this as soon as possible. I don't want this in my game! I know it is just a game and bugs happen but this is a NO NO! Since I read a book called I am not your daughter anymore (orig. Ich bin nicht mehr eure) by Karin Jäckel I am very sensitive to such stuff. Everyone should read it.



@GalacticGal I am pretty sure that first cousin can marry in my country and they can have children together. Which is very weird and I do not understand it. Maybe that is because I don't know anyone who has done it.

@SERVERFRA I had no idea they were first cousins. I have seen the movie Young Victoria about 2 moths ago.

Just because a close relative may have a little "romantic attraction" to another does not mean they are going to get married and have kids. In real life I mean. Also what if a daughter and mother both have romantic attraction to each-other and do get "married". Since neither can have kids with each-other, then since there is no genetic breeding problems, it's fine then?

I was thinking this topic was about a minor game glitch, but if it's going genetics and morality and philosophy, I know a first-cousin couple, (male and female) that married and decided to adopt, instead of have their own genetic offspring. I have known someone who's biological parents are first-cousins. I also know of two gay brothers that married. So real-life can sometimes be more bizarre than a simulated game glitch.

Just saying!

@Anisim If this does bother you, which I understand, there are ways to fix it.

~You could set "Romance" to -100 (Honestly I have no idea how negative romance works, really!)

~You could clear all relationships with a mod. And set it through the mod. You'd have to read up and/or watch tutorials on how to do that.

~Save one of the characters to "Library" delete them in-game, then load from library. You will have to manually set relationships again for that character manually, like if you did that with the father, you would have to set him as her father again. You can do this with cheat codes, don't need mods.

"SERVERFRA;c-17492266" wrote:
Speaking of cousins that marry each other; did you know that Queen Victoria married her 1st cousin Prince Albert & that they had 9 children together?

Yes, Royals used to intermarry with their close cousins in Europe and the British Isles (and siblings in Egypt) under the mistaken impression that it was keeping the royal lines pure and strong. Then they figured out that inbreeding was not good after some very unfortunate birth defects started to develop in the royal lines.

Hi @Anisim,

On Answers HQ we have a Bug Report section for cases like these. Could you create a bug report for this please? This link will get you started: https://answers.ea.com/t5/forums/postpage/board-id/The-Sims-4-Bugs

I'll lock this thread here in the meantime.

Thank you,

EA_Lanna