Two of my sims are suddenly gay and in a relationship with each other

This has happened to me multiple times, usually it's because it was during a club gathering where 'be romantic' was a club activity or because one of the sims involved was Flirty. If it doesn't mess up the story I have planned I tend to just leave it that way, lol

I've not had accidental gays yet (I actively make them gay, so HA!), but I have had weird romantic relationships pop up within households I hadn't played in a while. For instance, I have my one main family, the son, Jayden, married Alexander Goth. Peachy and all that. After their marriage, I went to another household to play around, and then basically bounced around to multiple other households for a good while. I kept seeing Jayden pop up in the city at festivals and events, and didn't think much of it. Eventually, when I worked back around to my main household again, Jayden now had this romantic endeavor with a random girl townie - all this while he's married to Alex. So yeah, I've had the reverse happen.

In my very first game, I was trying to create a love triangle with a teen from my main household and his BFF since childhood with a female teen townie. I had all three at the BFF's house and was trying to have both boys flirt with her, but while managing the household adults, I went back to the teen boys to find the two of them flirting with each other and a lot of pink bar already, so they ended up together, and married with an adopted daughter. That's one of the best parts of this game, the random events that happen that can introduce the unexpected.

I wish my game does accidental gay couples..but it seems to think that is up to me lol

"TheGreatGorlon;c-16930388" wrote:
I've not had accidental gays yet (I actively make them gay, so HA!), but I have had weird romantic relationships pop up within households I hadn't played in a while. For instance, I have my one main family, the son, Jayden, married Alexander Goth. Peachy and all that. After their marriage, I went to another household to play around, and then basically bounced around to multiple other households for a good while. I kept seeing Jayden pop up in the city at festivals and events, and didn't think much of it. Eventually, when I worked back around to my main household again, Jayden now had this romantic endeavor with a random girl townie - all this while he's married to Alex. So yeah, I've had the reverse happen.

Possibly met at the romance festival?

I wish my game would give me random gays; that would be one of my favourite things!

"NorthDakotaGamer;c-16940496" wrote:
I modded my game so that can't ever happen anymore. I am a traditionalist when it comes to that stuff I love the mod. It only allows for flirting with the opposite gender and is very much needed for to stop some of the random flirting. Same person made a mod that would only allow flirting with the same gender, so they catered to both preferences.

Gays have been around since the dawn of time, I wouldn't call that "tradition", but you do you.

Sooooo ... Back to the original topic, I haven’t seen this occurring randomly. And I’ve logged 150-ish hours in the game. I remember reading somewhere that sims have a hidden gender preference and that it is possible, but I’ve seen no evidence of it.

Autonomous romances was more a thing in TS3 - with a disregard for gender. But if unplayed Sims do enchanting greets there is no telling who they'll end up with. Also, mods featuring story progression will create all sorts of couples. It's true that unplayed Sims will develop random friendships and enemyships that you'll come to learn of when you return to them. This is a thing.

Lol, talk about a gay agenda. (kidding, kidding please don't at me but the opportunity was perfect).

In all seriousness, I haven't had this happen before. I'd be annoyed if it did, but I'd be annoyed if they were straight too. I don't care about friendships and want my Sims to take care of that on their own to some degree but the romance just has to work with my storylines. I don't want them involved with anyone else when they're supposed to be a loving loyal spouse. I often had this problem in TS3 where my married/dating Sims would go off and have affairs with someone and I'd be like "?! Excuse you? Who gave you permission?" ? I have had same sex roommates have whims to flirt with each other, but I don't really ever have romantic interactions of any sort happen unless I make them (again, that's how I like it, for reasons stated above).