Twice, in the past three days, I have had sims who were friends, with no romantic relationship, initiate a romantic relationship by flirting. ALL of my played sims have "attraction disabled" and the game specifically states that, "This Sim will have Attraction only for Sims with whom they have a romantic relationship". Therefore, this setting is either not working at all, or malfunctioning in some way. I will also say that when this happens, the usual pop up and sound indicating that a romantic relationship was formed, is not happening. I will also say that it is happening with sims that have been played for a long time and it is completely out of character for. Perhaps that might mean that disabled attraction was working previously and now it is not, but the point is, these sims have never cheated on their spouses or partners. And most especially not with a stepson, stepmom or a son's wife. In the past three days, all of this has happened, completely ignoring the attraction setting being disabled. And it was not due to any romantic introduction as they obviously already know each other when they're friends, nor was it due to any serenade bleed over as I saw everything unfold this time. It was out of the blue with no warning and no indication that it had even occurred had it not been for the husband being there and witnessing it and the thought bubbles.
In the right side of the screenshot you see my sim Jake, center is his daughter-in-law Alaina and on the left is his son Morgan. Jake has been popping up pretty much everywhere they go, so I had no reason to think anything about it. I had Morgan jump on the treadmill to Alaina's left, thinking Jake might jump on the empty treadmill to her right.
Instead, this is what happened......I paused quickly as soon as I saw the thought bubble with the rose and Morgan getting angry.
Jake and Alaina chat on like nothing is wrong while Morgan is feeling deeply wounded.
I have no idea what that scythe in Jake's thought bubble means as I am pretty sure I have never seen it before. Jake and Alaina are acting like nothing happened while Morgan sobs in misery.
I pulled up Jake's profile in her relationships and found this....
Rewind to three days ago, and I found this has happened after taking Morgan and Alaina to the Romance Festival and I didn't find it until the next day when I happened to be looking through the family tree because once again, there was no pop ups or indication at all that it has happened. I didn't see any thought bubbles at all with this one. This was between him and his stepmother.
Something happened on 04/02/26 that caused this. It was with his wife Alaina and was due to a romantic introduction that was not prevented by the attraction setting being disabled. It was not with a family member though.
I have to say that in all of my time playing The Sims 4, I have never, ever, not once, seen these In-Lovers and Step-Flirt sentiments or have anything remotely like this happen. Probably because I always disable attraction for my sims and it worked as it should.
Something has obviously gone very wrong at some point but did not noticeably start presenting itself in my game until April 2nd. And as of now, with my nicest, politest, most well behaved and well mannered, loyal sim flirting with his son's wife and cheating on his own, my game is unplayable until this gets fixed. I only have one save file and I simply cannot, don't want to play when it feels like my game has suddenly turned into an insane asylum or something. I will send you my save file, whatever you need.
I recently did a game reset following Crinrict's steps that I found on the forum. I did it because I was trying to get the option to give out residence keys back not because I was having any problems. My game loads and flows quite smoothly. And as it turns out, the option for the key was moved somewhere else so there was not really a problem after all.
All packs up to AA, never cc and the only mod I use (UI Cheats) has been uninstalled since yesterday.
