Will Sims brake up if they catch their partner cheating?

When I first got TS4 and made my first family, my Sim died because she caught her husband cheating on her with Don Lothario. She had the jealous trait.
That's the ultimate break up :lol:

But yeah none of my Sims have kicked their partners out on TS4 when they have cheated on them(which happens pretty often in my game because drama is the best).

If your sim has the jealous trait they will probably slap their partner. But that's all, they don't break up. They may get an angry moodlet.

A non jealous sim will not react any further than a sad or angry moodlet if they get one.

They get angry and the caught sim gets embarrassed. If they're married the option to divorce comes up but they won't break up themselves, they don't even interact. My sim was angry for a good 24 sim hours and sad for a few days because I had them divorce.

They don't break up autonomously unless you have some mod installed for that. You the player make the decision for them to break up or not. The possibilities of course crop up when they take a bad enough hit to the relationship. I personally wouldn't like for my sims to autonomously break up or worse yet walk off lot and out of the game forever.

I've a question in a similar vein to the OP's. I've heard people here on the forums refer to having their sim in S4 confess an affair. Is this an option on the dialogue wheel, or just something that has to be imagined as happening? Because I've never seen it as an option.

"Pamtastic72;c-16351801" wrote:
I've a question in a similar vein to the OP's. I've heard people here on the forums refer to having their sim in S4 confess an affair. Is this an option on the dialogue wheel, or just something that has to be imagined as happening? Because I've never seen it as an option.

I think it's just creative story telling. In my save this past weekend I played out the caught in the act scenario, but prior to that there was never a social interaction for confessing.

I think it depends sim to sim. My sims tend to react more strongly than I've heard from other simmers. My sim's husband once flirted with her cousin and they lost half their romance bar.

Before the Jealous Trait was patched in, I had a very young couple, newlyweds, who took a little walk over to a small picnic area. He had the Friend of the World aspiration and needed to meet x amount of people. Since there were others sitting at the picnic table, I thought this was a good idea. Well, while I did have him introduce himself a few times, unbeknownst to me, his little wife was having problems with Bob Pancake. Pancake apparently made a pass at her. I noticed when she suddenly had red negative signs floated above her. Suddenly, her husband was irate, and wondering just how long his wife and this fella had been carrying on behind his back. I was seriously afraid he'd die of anger, so I had her sit down next to him at the table and chat him up, effectively 'talking him off of the wall'. Phew! I can see that had I not 'stepped' in, so to speak, this scenario would have had a very unhappy ending. Either with death or a bitter break-up.

This is my only experience with such a close call.

Well, while my sims were in Selvadorada, the wife was in a flirty mood and decided to flirt with one of the locals. Her husband was just close by, and he had a "be jealous" interaction in his queue. Then he got a +3 angry moodlet (which was buried under a bunch of other moodlets at the time) and their romance relationship bar took a small hit. I imagine it would be worse if she did more than flirt.

If they have the jealous trait they'll walk over and slap the spouse/significant other while using forbidden words, if you have Parenthood. Without the jealous trait they don't have huge reactions really. However, having the jealous trait can make just talking to another sim cause a reaction where the jealous sim gets very upset.