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[jennomac]

Okay I'm reading everyone's legacies and reviews on the game and I'm seeing nothing on the Sims marriages. I spent all last night Googling it but all my searches are simply telling me they CAN get married but not how

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[parzi]

This was bothering me too, because my SimGirl and his l33t hax0rness Cycl0n3 St0rm fell in love SO fast but I could never find the option to get them married or even moved in. So I searched over the TS3 forums and found out, they have to be having a REALLY good time for that option to come up. You know how when you do a social, it says what the other Sim thinks of your Sim? You have to get up from 'thinks __ is being flirty' past 'alluring' all the way up to 'irresistable'. I finally got there by just queuing up several romantic interactions in a row. The forum said it was best to choose many kinds of different romantic interactions right after each other. I don't know if that's the ONLY way, but it definitely worked for me, and now my Sim is MS. l33t hax0r. (okay, actually Cycl0n3 took her last name. But you know what I mean.)

[jennomac]

lmao Cycl0n3 seems to be a ladies man with all the sim girls.

But alright, I'll def try this. That's a little ridiculous and Sims 1 esque, though, that you have to be really interested at any particular moment to get engaged vs just having a long-standing good relationship like Sims 2.

[parzi]

Yeah, it is a little odd. They have to be 'in the mood', or something. Also, proposal isn't first - 'going steady' is. With adults! That made me giggle a bit. But since my Sim and Cycl0n3 were full relationship I zoomed right through steady to proposal to marriage all at once. It was just the first one that took some doing to get to.

[writingvixen]

it made me giggle, but i liked it too. I think it's a bit more realistic. I know in real life you often hit exclusive relationship before proposal, at least i hope so! I really liked that idea.

I love this game!

[writingvixen]

I know this may sound dumb, but make sure that none of your sims are married to anyone else because that can happen. They can move out/in without the entire family.

If they are single, make sure all their needs are 100% and their mood is light and happy. Send them out alone and have them have an evening/day together. Keep it all positive and lots of kissing and flirting, maybe even a few woo-hoos. eventually you'll see the option to propose.

Make sure the other sim is feeling it too and keep them away from messes and have one propose. It took me awhile with one set.

Also personality has a lot to do with it. Loners aren't going to want to get married as easily as a family-focused sim. Some sims may never want to get married. Sims 3 is a bit more complicated with relationships than 2 was.

I hope this helps.

[jennomac]

Oh fuck. This guy is a loner.

Whatever. I'll kick him out and find another sim, then. Because we're getting nowhere just being romantic interests after 3 kids already, wow.

~Broken home~ but oohhh weellllll.

[writingvixen]

Yeah, it's a lot more complex. I'm sure with ENOUGH effort, he'll agree to marriage eventually. I'm just pretty sure that it'll take a lot of work.

DArn your girl for falling in love with the unibomber!

[jennomac]

Thanks so much for your help. Now if only I can figure out how to install this mod so I can stop seeing the stupid censor blur. >:/

[oh_its_lana]

First of all, your Sims have to be going steady in order to get engaged and then married.  The only way to get ANY of these proposals to show up is through allowing your Sims to flirt.  If their relationship is high enough, the proposals will show while your Sims find each other alluring or irresistible.

I think certain personality types might make the proposals take longer to show up.  One of my Sims had trouble getting another Sim with commitment issues into a relationship, but the option eventually showed up.  It just didn't show up as fast as it did with other Sims.

Edited: Whoops, typos.

[naughtydolphin]

The more you flirt and act romantic with them, the more options you get, I've found.

[jennomac]

omg icon <3

[nameless_cricke]

The files aren't the same on MAC? I assume that you would use the same setup and the files would be the same, you would just have slightly different Mac equivalent locations.

[jennomac]

it says it needs to go in resources and then the something bin but i can't even find resources! :(

[carriekate]

I dunno if you've already looked here, but you have to click on the game icon and "show package contents" and it's probably in there somewhere.

[nameless_cricke]

D: I have no idea how to do a search for files on a mac but someone has already asked this on MTS, there is an answer:

http://www.modthesims.info/showthread.php?t=343150