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I just had such a heartbreaking play session. (TW pregnancy loss)
I have a sim, Kat Chum, who has a really hard time holding on to pregnancies. She seems to miscarry so easily and she is a police officer so has a physically demanding job. She has a long-term boyfriend, Gerard, who moved in with her during one of the last ones. He also recently just had a love child with his other lover Iva Leek. My son insisted on naming their baby Isak after his best friend :D
Anyway, so last play session I was trying to figure out what to do with Gerard. Should I make him move in with Iva and Isak? He isn't married to Kat, and they don't have any children together, but she seems happy with him. I settled for inviting him over a lot and then I decided I'd invite Iva and Isak over to meet Kat during my play session with them. I did this and both Kat and Iva did some minor romantic socials in front of each other with no jealousy, so I thought fine, she obviously doesn't mind, but also feel like Iva is fairly independent, doesn't particularly want a man to live with her and seemed happy with the idea of 50/50 shared custody, so I decided to make Gerard just "Ask to be friends". I planned that I would move Isak in for 2-3 game days at a time hopefully coinciding with their work schedules. While I was playing through all of this, Kat began to have morning sickness again. I was so happy for her and immediately put her on bed rest and didn't let her go to work. Gerard asked to be friends with Iva but then he kissed her goodbye which made them instantly fall in love again. Oh well.
I was looking after Kat so carefully and had moved Isak in for his first Daddy time. They were doing fairly well for money and could do with more space for their growing family, so I sold their house and moved them into a lovely spacious two-bed with room to remodel/expand. Isak is 10 Active and Outgoing so I got Gerard to teach him to walk and talk immediately. Kat got her third bump and I thought yay - we're out of the woods! I continued to look after her and didn't let her motives drop too much. But because they'd moved house, they had no leftovers, she was hungry and I wanted her to have a meal without expending too much effort so I got her to make a TV dinner. Well despite having about 4 cooking points, it instantly started a fire! And because I have the more dangerous fires mod, even though they have a smoke alarm, the fire brigade just didn't seem to be arriving quickly at all. I thought it was best to get her away from the flames so I sent her upstairs to take Isak safely outside.
Gerard arrives home from work at this point bearing pizza
I should have known that he also wouldn't have let her go hungry. Anyway he seemed to take ages putting the pizza carefully down RIGHT next to the fire and taking a slice before putting it down slowly in order to start panicking
The fire brigade were STILL not there so I started to make him extinguish the fire. Kat came downstairs twice without Isak and I kept having to send her back. The firefighter did turn up and started extinguishing the fire but they lost their stove and kitchen sink. She was able to eat some pizza, use the toilet and shower before collapsing into bed exhausted. I hoped that would be enough - when she stood up an hour or so later, I wondered if she was in labour but no - she lost the baby
I was SO sad I considered quitting without saving but I would have lost so much playtime - and I did install those mods for a reason but I just felt so awful for her. She basically stayed in a catatonic state for the next day. Refused to go to work. Kept persistently rolling the want to meet someone new and marry someone rich, so I actually sent her out to the local singles bar - but there aren't a lot of pickings in this hood and I don't think there is anyone rich to marry at all. Everyone who turned up to the singles bar was actually attached (just not married) and none of them were rich when she asked them and she seemed too grumpy to have any positive interactions with anyone anyway, so I took her to a park instead and there was nobody of use there either. It did seem like that walk cleared her head, though, because by the time she got home she had replaced the marry a rich sim want with a want to get a promotion instead. I ended up sending Isak home early for that time and will probably do a shorter swap between the parents for now. I just hope that family can catch a break! They got burgled just before moving as well!
I use the sims as a psychology simulator...