Question about engagements

[rosenshyne]

Will townies ever propose marriage? Or is it a completely non-autonomous interaction?

[akatonbo]

It's non-autonomous. If you've read stories where playables have romanced townies and it looked as if the townie proposed before actually moving into the house, it's just storytelling (and occasionally pictures not being used in the same order in the story as the order they were taken in).

[Madame Mim]

Actually I've had some 'autonomous' proposals - with the Sim Slice Beer keg. It's one of the inappropriate actions pushed by it. I've even had one acceptance.

<edit> actually I should have been clearer - I wasn't paying proper attention. It was engagement proposals not marriage ones that were being pushed by the Slice Keg - sorry.

[J. M. Pescado]

Will townies ever propose marriage? Or is it a completely non-autonomous interaction?

Townies cannot propose marriage, because the proposee moves in with the proposer, which wouldn't work because townies don't have a home!

[kuronue]

Will townies ever propose marriage? Or is it a completely non-autonomous interaction?

Townies cannot propose marriage, because the proposee moves in with the proposer, which wouldn't work because townies don't have a home!

homeless bums. Makes you wonder why the rich legacy kids insist on marrying them.

[Katze]

Will townies ever propose marriage? Or is it a completely non-autonomous interaction?

Townies cannot propose marriage, because the proposee moves in with the proposer, which wouldn't work because townies don't have a home!

homeless bums. Makes you wonder why the rich legacy kids insist on marrying them.

Because the legacy rules says they have too.

[Zazazu]

Will townies ever propose marriage? Or is it a completely non-autonomous interaction?

Townies cannot propose marriage, because the proposee moves in with the proposer, which wouldn't work because townies don't have a home!

homeless bums. Makes you wonder why the rich legacy kids insist on marrying them.

Four words: No mother-in-law.

[rosenshyne]

Now that's an idea that almost makes me want to be a Sim.

[J. M. Pescado]

Four words: No mother-in-law.

If you can't stand your mother-in-law, divorce is soon to follow anyway, as clearly, your spouse has the genetically inherited tendency to piss you off. Never marry anyone who's family you hate. If you hate their family, you hate them, too. They're all the same.

[Zazazu]

Four words: No mother-in-law.

If you can't stand your mother-in-law, divorce is soon to follow anyway, as clearly, your spouse has the genetically inherited tendency to piss you off. Never marry anyone who's family you hate. If you hate their family, you hate them, too. They're all the same.

Everyone has the genetically inherited tendency to piss me off. Neh, I have no mother-in-law as I have no husband.

[aubreylaraine]

Four words: No mother-in-law.

If you can't stand your mother-in-law, divorce is soon to follow anyway, as clearly, your spouse has the genetically inherited tendency to piss you off. Never marry anyone who's family you hate. If you hate their family, you hate them, too. They're all the same.

wow, does not bode well for me. momma tried to run him through with a pitchfork and dad "gave" him a bullet engraved with his name. grandma offered him $200 to leave me. forget divorcing the spouce, divorce the family. 

[Li'l Brudder]

And you MARRIED into this dysfunctional quagmire?  Are you SURE it wasn't a shotgun wedding?

[sewinglady]

No, If I read that right, that quagmire is HER family and her HUSBAND married into it anyway...

I dunno about the 'no mom-in-law' thing... I've made some sim story lines involving in-laws - my favorite was where the male sim romanced both the mom and the uni student daughter, got Mom preggers, then married the uni student daughter when she graduated...there was a spectacular fight at the wedding - Mom was in attendance...  Just to pay him back for his, uh, 'family foible', his wife wasn't particularly faithful...

[aubreylaraine]

yes, my quagmire. no shotgun, it was a little bitty bullet.

my poor sims, they dont branch out much from the trunk.  unless i turn the acr to spouse only, weddings and parties turn into riots. sister against sister, father against son. but since i installed fight club i might start leaving it set normally.

[J. M. Pescado]

wow, does not bode well for me. momma tried to run him through with a pitchfork and dad "gave" him a bullet engraved with his name. grandma offered him $200 to leave me. forget divorcing the spouce, divorce the family.

It sounds like you should spay yourself for the betterment of the gene pool.

[aubreylaraine]

probably 

[mistymage]

Four words: No mother-in-law.

If you can't stand your mother-in-law, divorce is soon to follow anyway, as clearly, your spouse has the genetically inherited tendency to piss you off. Never marry anyone who's family you hate. If you hate their family, you hate them, too. They're all the same.

Heh.. reminds me of the reverse situation of the old joke that goes something like this:

"I met a girl and fell in love with her.  She was just like my mom.. she looked like her, talked like her and even cooked the same meals like mom did.

I took her home to meet the folks.. and Dad hated her."