Did you ever find a solution? I'm having the same issue. I pause my game and the sims continue to repeat the same action over and over while my screen clearly says paused. I removed all my mods from the game but that didn't fix the issue at all.
The problem did get fixed eventually but I don’t know how, I stopped playing Sims for about a month or so and when I came back it was working just fine again, but every once and a while it slightly happens so I just save and exit out of the game. Also, I’m not exactly sure if that’s what fixed it because I also did a bunch of other things like making a copy of my game and saving all of my save files but I don’t remember if that worked. Sorry I couldn’t help that much! 🙂
