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WhantSomeEggs
New Adventurer
5 years ago
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Relationship stuck on lovers/acquaintance

So, I'm banging my head against a wall on this one.  My sim was in a relationship with Sim1 and it wasn't formalized, he never asked them out but it was sufficiently filled enough to rank as soulmates though I didn't realize it at the time.  My sim then started a relationship with Sim2 and it wouldn't progress to soulmate, it was stuck on lovers. 

After going through my relationships to figure out why I figured it must be because of the soulmates on Sim1 so I went and asked them to be friends but the soulmates was still stuck!, I didn't' want to end it harshly, but if it was the only way I reloaded and used the mean interaction and it worked, but Sim2 is still stuck and her bars are maxed so there is not much changing that can be done.  If I ask to be just friends to 'start over' she reverts to acquaintances but with a full friendship bar. 

None of the cheats to modify or reset relationships are working (turns out after digging around online some/all of them may have been removed a long time ago now?). With the new sentiments, trying to do a mean breakup is going to take a long time to repair, and with my sims lifestyles waiting around for it to decay is going to take until they're elders or beyond lol.  Any of the posts I've found on this particular issue are 5+years old and the solutions involve the said cheats I can't get to work.  Any advice, solutions, cheats for 2021?  I don't use mods, not that I'm opposed to them, just like to play vanilla.  

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  • @WhantSomeEggs Hi!  Since you're not opposed to using cheats, perhaps you could try the shift+click menu options for add / remove relationship bit.  I'm not sure if that one needs the all cheats mod that crin mentioned, so if this doesn't work the first time you might want to search for that online and add it to your game. 

    Turn testingcheats on, then shift+click the sim with whom your sim has (or doesn't have) the relationship.  In my game, the relationship cheat is on the second "more choices" menu.  The remove relationship bit is limited to the ones your sim has of course.  The add relationship bit list is HUGE  haha  I found two "soulmates" bits almost all the way at the bottom of that list.  Hope this helps.

  • WhantSomeEggs's avatar
    WhantSomeEggs
    New Adventurer
    5 years ago

    Thanks I found the solution in the second link, the first link brought me back to this thread oddly.  I must have had the cheats wrong, or they were changed since the date of the threads I looked at earlier.  I had to fix it twice as I didn't clear their relationship to 0 thinking about -50 would do it, and it didn't.  I asked to be friends first to take the gf tag off in case that was messing with it too.  Then I set their relationship to zero, then brought it back to 100 and also added back 100 romance and that gave the soulmates.  All that was left was to ask them out again.  


    "You can try the friendship and romance modify cheats:

    modifyrelationship John Doe Jane Doe -50 LTR_Friendship_Main

    modifyrelationship John Doe Jane Doe -50 Romance_Main" These were provided by simvasion in the second link  (: Thanks @crinrict 

  • JonaO703's avatar
    JonaO703
    Hero
    5 years ago

    @WhantSomeEggs I'm glad you were able to fix things!  Although, I personally think the shift+click cheat menu is better than copying / pasting / typing all those cheats. 😉

  • WhantSomeEggs's avatar
    WhantSomeEggs
    New Adventurer
    5 years ago

    Oh! Sorry, in my excitement I forgot to reply to you. You must require the mod you spoke of because I tried the shift click first, but there were no options to change relationships except changing familial and marriage status. Though I agree, it would have been simpler to solve it that way (: Thanks for your help.