Household Sims loose existing relationship [ Edited ]

[AnneSims34]

Product: The Sims 4
Platform: PC
Which language are you playing the game in? English
How often does the bug occur? At least once. 
What is your current game version number? 1.108.349.1029 DX9
What expansions, game packs, and stuff packs do you have installed? For rent, growing together, high school years, cottage living, snowy escape, discover university, island living, seasons, cats & dogs, city living, get together, get to work, dream home decorator, realm of magic, strangerville, jungle adventure, parenthood, dine out, outdoor retreat, paranormal, my first pet, toddler, bowling night, backyard, kids room, romantic garden, luxury party, free holiday pack, desert luxe, fashion street. 

Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? Play with two married sims with max relationships, as well as other sims in the same household and see if the married sims suddenly become strangers. 
What happens when the bug occurs? Two sims in active household married with both maxed romance and friendship suddenly lose all relationship with each other. One sim also lost milestone memories of the first wedding and becoming best friends. The other did not. 
What do you expect to see? Married sims not becoming strangers all of a sudden. 
Have you installed any customization with the game, e.g. Custom Content or Mods? No.
Did this issue appear after a specific patch or change you made to your system? I've only had this happen once, but it was after the big Lovestruck patch and the three subsequent emergency patches. 

My sims have been married for a long time and have had maxed friendship and romantic relationship. They're also best friends because one has the soulmate aspiration. But suddenly their relationship completely disappeared, like no friendship, no romance at all, they were no longer married. I had a different sim's profile open and I only noticed because the prompt came up that they fell out of touch (they're in the same household) and were no longer best friends. Thankfully my one sim has max charisma so I could get it back quickly but nothing prompted this at all. My one sim was swimming in their pool and the other sim was playing with their daughter in the kiddie pool. The only thing I can think of is their two teens just aged into adults and one of them just got engaged to his girlfriend and became best friends with her, but I don't know why this would mess up the parent's relationship. 

And I hate to add this but this is the fourth major glitch I've experienced since the Lovestruck update and it's just so frustrating. I don't even have Lovestruck so I don't understand why I'm experiencing so many glitches with the game. I just want to be able to play the game without experiencing crazy problems every five minutes. 

I play on PC and have my game fully updated. No mods or CC. 

Edit By Crinrict: Adjusted Title to better reflect the issue

[slytheringoddes]

@AnneSims34 I'm having issues with the relationship bars acting weird, too. And not just between romantic partners. The rate of decay is juiced up for some reason.

I think this has been a known issue for a few weeks now. Hopefully it gets addressed soon.

[crinrict]

Could you please edit your post and add the following info to your post.

Product: The Sims 4
Platform:
Which language are you playing the game in? 
How often does the bug occur? 
What is your current game version number? 
What expansions, game packs, and stuff packs do you have installed? 
Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? 
What happens when the bug occurs? 
What do you expect to see? 
Have you installed any customization with the game, e.g. Custom Content or Mods?
Did this issue appear after a specific patch or change you made to your system? 

The bug template is sometimes not being displayed due to high traffic.

[crinrict]

@AnneSims34 Can you duplicate it if you do the same steps ?

Do you have a backup you could go back to and see if it happens again if you repeat the major steps ?

[AnneSims34]

I went back into the recovered save and tried to do the same thing, which was make two cakes, invite the teens' significant others to age them up too, age up my two teen sims, and then get one of them engaged to his girlfriend, but I experienced different problems instead. One of the sims I invited over said yes but then had to be invited again before he showed up, and then he didn't come onto the lot until I called him over (this has happened before with that same sim, but only since the Lovestruck update). Both he and the other sim I invited over could not be aged up using "Age Up" on the birthday cakes, when this worked fine the first time I did this. I could only age up random townies that were in the neighborhood at that time. I sent one of the sims I invited over home and tried to invite him back and he said yes but never appeared. The other sim I invited over did not have the option to be sent home. 

I did not experience the same glitch as before where the parent sims became strangers to each other, but I don't know if what triggered that was the other sim getting engaged which I couldn't do because his girlfriend couldn't be aged up. I also didn't save and just exited to the main menu after I had the two new issues. Should I go back into the recovered save to try again?

I do want to add that I have been playing this household since last summer, but I've saved as multiple times and this current save file is only from June 2024. I'm planning to save as again in a few days. 

[crinrict]

@AnneSims34 I wonder if this is a fallout from the issue where you can't add third traits to young adults when they age up from teens.

A LE occurs with that error and often if one occurs, the game abandons the rest of the things it's supposed to do.

Did you have any issues with that at all ?

[AnneSims34]

In the original save I was able to give both the sims in my household I aged up their third traits, and their significant others also got third traits when I aged them up. I've been playing the same save since I had the original issue, and it's been normal since (fingers crossed!), just a little laggy. I have had a couple teen sims in the save (not in my household) that never aged into young adults, and couldn't be aged up using the cake, so I just deleted them, but that's the only major issue I've noticed with teen sims in this save. 

What is an LE, just so I can be on the lookout?

[crinrict]

@AnneSims34 LE stands for LastException.

It's a file created by the game certain errors occur. You can find them in your documents folder.

[AnneSims34]

Thank you!

Today I opened this save again (though I have saved as since the first time I had an issue) and I have the same married couple who lost all relationship before still in my household. They had lost all relationship again, which I didn't notice until I tried to make them go to bed because they wouldn't sleep in the same bed (this was not a routing issue as even with the bed in the middle of a large room they wouldn't sleep in it at the same time). This time I got no notification that they lost their best friendship status, their relationship was just gone when I opened the save. So the same couple has lost all relationship twice now. The only other relationship changes in the household happened with another sim, who broke up with someone and entered a relationship with someone else, and I also moved a sim into the household. I did have that sim ask about their partner's romantic boundaries, I don't know if that is contributing to issues?