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How often do your sim marriages fail?
Mindsimscreate
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Most people (even sims) don’t stay with the same partner forever while dating, but what about marriage? How often do your sim marriages fail, and how many times do they remarry, if any? Thanks for participating 🎉
How often do your sim marriages fail? 225 votes
Very often. Almost every sim has had at least one failed marriage.
0%
2 votes
Somewhat often. About 1/2 of my sims have at least one failed marriage.
7%
16 votes
Not often. About 1/4 or less of my sims have at least one failed marriage.
24%
56 votes
1/5 or less of my sims have had at least one failed marriage.
67%
151 votes
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I generally wait until Sims have been in a long relationship through most of their YA age - and then they might marry and have 1-2 kids. So my sims know each other well, and have spent a lot of time together building their careers and skills, and bond deeply, then they eventually get married. I played Sims 3 the same way, and also the marriages always lasted.
It probably helps that I never give Sims flirty traits or make romance Sims - so my Sims are not really tempted by other sims outside my couples romance. I don't know - I just know it works for me.
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That’s why I put “or less”, but whatever..
I played like you back in Sims 1 and 2 as the emotional system in the game - especially in Sims 2 was rather amazing so I used every trait possible - and loved the sliders. I remember well how Cassandra reacted even years after Don had left her at the alter, even after she was happily married and had kids with someone else - she was still furious at him. It never ceased to crack me up when she would remember and relive the event (loved the memory system in 2) and go kick his trash can over. If he dared step outside, she'd slap him silly, then stomp off home. Always left me laughing. But not all simmers liked all that and complained - so when Sims 3 came out the memory and the reaction system were pretty dead - so I adapted by changing the way I played as it was not fun to play that way any more - like it had been. I cut out a number of traits and instead of focusing on the whole neighborhoods I focused on just a few Sims households and just good relationships.
Sims 4 took memory and emotion completely away - it was dull and void, with next to no relationships with their neighbors at all outside of over the top silly smiles - even when they were angry - as they have no memory on why they were angry. For the first two years I went back to playing between Sims 2 and Sims 3 - but toddlers brought me back and Vampires made me stay. I finally found a Sims 4 I could play - but there is no natural way the game actually breaks up the Sims as even when they cheat the other Sims keeps smiling. They may cry a bit but there is nothing natural about how they should be feeling - so it annoyed me even more than the lessening of reactions in the Sims 3. To stop the annoyance more than anything - I stop giving traits like flirty or making romance Sims. Stopped having early marriages, so my Sims were more ready for a one on one real relationship. At least in my mind they were - and the marriages in Sims 4 last - never break up with me doing nothing else at all - nothing special anyway.
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I think breakups might be something I'll play with in the future, but as of now I can't bear it :,(
I guess divorce is so common in real life these days that its not even an option in a simulated game that marriage actually can last forever.
My sims are either single or happily married.
I actually did play Bob and Eliza Pancakes once, just long enough to have them get divorced, moved Eliza to a house in Windenburg, then marked both as unplayed to see what MCCC would do with them while I played my main Sims.
MCCC married them again -- to each other.
Can't fight fate, I guess.
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> I like to make a big deal about going through the worlds and choosing a perfect partner for my sim, then planning their future for them before they've even met. That tends to make me really attached to my sims' spouses and their relationships, and it hurts me to break them up. I think I divorced a couple once in 7 generations of my legacy save, but it broke my heart. Usually if I want to throw some drama in there I kill one of the spouses, because for some reason I'd rather that happen than they get divorced. Plus divorce makes it hard to figure out what to do with the kids :/
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> I think breakups might be something I'll play with in the future, but as of now I can't bear it :,(
This is exactly how I feel! I put a lot of effort into choosing and am so delighted by the courtship, I can't handle the thought of breaking them up or letting the relationships fade.
Because in my game, even evil overlord Malcolm Landgraab has managed to keep his marriage!