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Reconciling After Divorce
kturner1015
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I admit, I usually make my Sims' lives pretty boring. They're always kind of perfect. So I decided to spice things up and add a little drama. For no reason at all, I had the husband cheat on the wife with their neighbor. He got her pregnant, and wife walked in on them woohooing. They got a divorce and husband now lives w/ neighbor.
I thought it would be interesting to see if they could reconcile because I saw there were new interactions between the two, like "remember common interests" and "find a common ground" and stuff. But my Sims were having NONE OF IT. Mannnnn do they hate each other. There's no going back.
Has anyone else experienced this? I wonder if everything is just too fresh right now and that's why every interaction turns out to be a negative one. Over time will all the angry redness disappear from their relationship bars and they could start from scratch?
I thought it would be interesting to see if they could reconcile because I saw there were new interactions between the two, like "remember common interests" and "find a common ground" and stuff. But my Sims were having NONE OF IT. Mannnnn do they hate each other. There's no going back.
Has anyone else experienced this? I wonder if everything is just too fresh right now and that's why every interaction turns out to be a negative one. Over time will all the angry redness disappear from their relationship bars and they could start from scratch?
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For example, if a sim was mean to your sim both as a child, then as young adults they tried to become friends it would be much harder then TS3 because they had that experience earlier in the sims life.
I figured that's what I'd have to do. They really should have the option to leave.
I did this when I had my sim marry a townie only to find out that he was 1 day from becoming an elder...and she was a young adult.
He was older than her parents so I made them get a divorce and then moved him out >.>
> I admit, I usually make my Sims' lives pretty boring. They're always kind of perfect. So I decided to spice things up and add a little drama. For no reason at all, I had the husband cheat on the wife with their neighbor. He got her pregnant, and wife walked in on them woohooing. They got a divorce and husband now lives w/ neighbor.
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> I thought it would be interesting to see if they could reconcile because I saw there were new interactions between the two, like "remember common interests" and "find a common ground" and stuff. But my Sims were having NONE OF IT. Mannnnn do they hate each other. There's no going back.
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> Has anyone else experienced this? I wonder if everything is just too fresh right now and that's why every interaction turns out to be a negative one. Over time will all the angry redness disappear from their relationship bars and they could start from scratch?
@kturner - I did the same thing in my game (added a little bit of drama to spice it up). I have experienced exactly what you mentioned. Yes over time the red bar will decrease, which will allow for some more positive interactions. My couple divorced and they can talk now, even flirt a little bit. But it's taken a very long time for that red bar to go down.
A quick question for you: when you made the husband cheat on the wife, was she jealous? In my current game, my husband cheats right in front of the wife, and she doesn't even get up upset. I must say, I miss the Sims 3 jealousy Lol.
hahahaha xD
and then the woohoo was unsatisfactory
and things get worse!
No they get satisfactory woohoo most of the time.
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Glad you made HIM the cheater
If my Sim got divorced, I would not even consider getting them back together
You got to give them time. The red bar will go down after some time of no interaction
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You got to give them time. The red bar will go down after some time of no interaction :smile: [/quote]
:O Thanks for the tip ^_^
So how much time? Like a sims-week? More?
I got bored so I had him cheat, and my game got really interesting after that, because they'd been together since they were teens! I didn't cause problems in their marriage until he became an adult (and I play on long so they were together for a long time).
I don't know that there's actually any kind of time limit on it. What I do know is, after reading this thread, I went into a save of mine where I'd divorced a couple and manipulated them into going all the way from declared enemies and divorced (full red in both bars) to best friends and married again. So it's definitely possible to do. Granted, some days had passed and they were both over the divorce, so I don't know if that factors in.
I always create drama then end up regretting it afterwards. My sim couple were perfect for each other until I meddled and made the guy have an affair with a neighbor and get her pregnant. rip
Yeah, I've had very little to no luck reconciling unless I waited a long amount of time and kept them apart without talking. Even then, they tend not to enjoy each others' presence, so I just have them move on. It helps if you don't use romantic interactions at all until their relationship has mended by friendly talk.
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