Romantic responses to Friendly category

[FrostFlower]

I'm attempting to play a Heartbreaker Sim for the first time.

I just had my first breakup (and could they make that music any sadder?), and Constance Shelley was brokenhearted. I noticed I had a bunch of new options in the Friendly category, such as "comfort" and "console." I like Constance and would like my Sim to still be on reasonably good terms with her, so I lined up all of those--and by the time he'd done them all, she had a red heart under her name again! So I had to "ask to just be friends" again, which went over about like you'd expect.

I've only got the one Sim, and he's a Private Investigator whom I watch at all times, because I'm also trying to see if I can get the LTW accomplished without him getting a cheater reputation by flirting with random Sims while in a relationship, which I've read can happen if you send flirty Sims off to a rabbithole job where you can't supervise them. So I know he didn't sneak any Romantic category options in there, because I saw the whole thing.

Basically, my question is if some of the conversation options are miscategorized. I'd like to not suddenly find myself back in a relationship I've just gotten out of!

[Pam]

That's rather an unusual result of the comfort and console interactions.  I wouldn't expect it to go back to being a romantic interest.  For me, using those friendly interactions right after a break up ends up with relationship decay because they are rejected.  I have to wait a day or two before trying to be just friends.

[MoMoll]

I agree with Pam. Usually when my sim uses that they end up hating each other. there's a normal 3 day cool off period, so I'm surprised it worked for you.

[Margerita]

I've had the same experiences as Pam and Momoll regarding trying to comfort the newly broken up boyfriend/girlfriend ' rejection and two minus signs for both. It is probably just a glitch, do see if it happens again though.

[Chuckles_82]

Are you sure that they were just friendly interactions? Some of the romantic socials come under special > charismatic socials. And the same for schmoozer I think.

[FrostFlower]

They were under the "Friendly" menu, not the special one, which was why I was so surprised they suddenly wound up back together. Hence wondering if perhaps some interactions were miscategorized.

But it's entirely possible it was just a glitch. The game has certainly done stranger things.

At any rate, it's good to know it wouldn't have worked as intended anyway and that a cooling-off period is necessary--which makes sense, but Sims' friendships & relationships move so fast, I thought it was worth a try. In the future, I'll have him break it off and then suddenly remember he is very late for something elsewhere.