Temporary Separations / Relationship Breaks v2.93  

Have your Sims take a relationship break and try to figure things out before fully breaking up or reconciling.

Temporary Separation in Sims 4

– ‘Separated’ status in between full on broken-up / divorced and being in a couple

Sims can agree (or impose) to separate  / take a break

During the “Temporary” Separation

Separated Sims are keeping track of what happens during the separation; they each have a feeling about each other that will improve or worsen depending on what happens during the separation, guiding whether they should eventually make up or break up.

One of the Sims can decide to (or be asked to) go stay somewhere else temporarily, or to outright move out, to make the separation easier, as there may be negative sentiments in the air that will participate in wrecking the relationship further…

Separated Sims can contact each other – either nicely or not, with resulting random dialogs.

They can also meet in person and use various interactions to try to work through their issues (try to discuss issues peacefully, say something nice about each other, try to change, apologize, etc etc). Each of these interactions can have more or less successful results.

Once the “Love Languages” module of this modis out, they will be able to focus on learning each other’s love language and try to communicate with each other better.

- Separated Sims will often think about the state of their relationship and try to figure out what to do

- Separated Sims can talk to family and friends about this and gather advice

- Separated Sims can also explain to their children what is happening. Children who have a good relationship with their parent’s partner will be sad, angry or shocked; if they don’t have a good relaitonship (like with a stepmother for example), it won’t impact them as much.

Couple’s counselling for separated sims is still planned and will likely replace Road to Romance’s counselling function, adding more depth to it etc.

Getting Back Together… Or Not

They can, once ready decide to try to patch up / stay together, or decide to simply end the relationship permanently.

Even if they eventually decide to stay together, Sims may decide to refuse to move back in if they feel it is too soon.

 More details on Effects of Temporary Separation

DOWNLOAD:

- remove everything from previous versions, EXCEPT the setting file if updating from v2.9. (if updating from v2.8, ALSO delete the settings file.)

- grab the RPO Core Library if you don't have it;

- grab the file from this post and put it directly into your mods folder or one subfolder (it's a .package file, so, not extracting!)