Not Pausing While Loading

This happens every single time without fail. When i select to travel, the game loading symbol pops up on screen, but my game doesn’t pause. I can’t click anywhere on the screen, and just have to watch my sims run around autonomously, not taking care of their needs & wasting like 2 sim hours. Finally, it will load to the worlds screen where you can select where to travel & the game goes on. It’s very stressful to watch them run around and do potentially dangerous things they could kill them & I just have to watch. This has been an issue for a very long time.