The magic is gone ! This is my first family of Sims. For the first few years of their lives, their romantic life was great. They were consumed with thoughts of each other. Every my knowledge sim would allow himself to be distracted away from seeing ghosts and stars and actually long for cuddles, kisses and the rest. My family sim was perfectly happy with that of course. This allowed me to have a very nice and productive kiss-makeout-whoohoo loop. I don't know if it's the straing of trying to juggle a career and raising 3 children, but it looks like the magic is gone! Now they never have any thoughts for each other. My family sim is consumed with thoughts of her kids and her friends, while my knowledge sim seems only interested in winning games. They still are very close (100/100). I gave them lots of quiet times together in the hot tub to "reconnect". But it looks like the magic is gone. Is there anything I can do to bring it back?
Marital Bliss Well, another point where TS2 hits close to real life. The longer a couple is together the less woohoo plays a part in day to day life. Kids, jobs, lifes little stressers take up more and more time and energy. However, unlike real life there is something you can do to curb this woohooless trend in TS2. Force the two characters to flirt, hug, and kiss, nothing heavy, just romantic, peck and caress level interactions. The best time is right before bed. Try and make it the last interactions the two married Sims get right before bed. I've discovered that this raises the chances greatly that when the Sims wake up they will flip to a series of romantic interaction wants with the other Sim. The next day is like a new honeymoon. Enjoy.
One trick to force this back, without having to wait for the next morning, is to immediately fill a mini-want after you perform the above. This should USUALLY, if you put enough "ballast", roll the thing to some sort of spouse interaction. Never, however, use a social want, except with your spouse, for this. If you use a want like "talk to" on a random person, your Sim will obsess about that person instead. Try to make sure your non-specific social wants are ALWAYS filled by the person you want them to obsess over. If you fill them with somebody else, they will obsess over that person instead, which can be good or bad, depending on what you're trying to accomplish. Family sims, however, are notoriously bad at woohoo. They'l SEEM like they're about to be in the right mood, wanting to flirt and soforth, but the moment you do it, it's gone and they just want joke/appreciate/play over and over. No woohoo chain. Knowledge sims are much easier to manipulate, due to their Stargaze want that can usually be used to trigger as above. Popularity Sims and Fortune sims can be terrible, since a late-life popularity or fortune sim is often consumed by power wants, which when rolled, tend to bring more of them, stomping out the spousal interaction chain. Romance sims, surprisingly, are very good even in late life. They regularly want woohoo. They don't really care who it's with. Their one-track mind gives them a certain level of consistency and prevents them from being derailed by children like other aspirations do.
