In my town, any type of relationship between any characters is allowed, generated mainly by free will. That is, I don't mind that some local celebrity could have an affair with a paparazzi chasing her, or even if anyone who met a service sim in the park could also have even such an unstable and brief affair. So we had a little party and some of the npc/role sims were very romantic about each other. Because of the communication, they got to the point where they fell in love, established a official romantic relationship, and now, it comes to engagement... But alas, they always mutually refuse and are already angry at each other. Although their relationship is as good as possible, something seems to be preventing them from moving on to this step.
The game seems to have a prohibition on this, but I don't understand how, what and why. I allowed the residents of the town to do everything so that they could have some fun and live happily, but it seems that I did not take something into account. Any ideas..?

Ahem, everything is fine now. After returning home, when the characters were hanging out at the entrance to the apartment building for a veeery long time, Betty suddenly decided to accept Bobby's marriage proposal, although she had refused him three times before. Ugh, what was that? I thought there were restrictions on having children, not on npc marriages. Anyway, I'll be glad to arrange their weddings sometime at my leisure. I love weddings, but I don't want this include my active sims for now, so... I have a habit come up with something weird to have fun.

Huh. Is there any chance one of the sims in that couple is Insane? I know Insane sims will randomly refuse marriage proposals. And the conversation state was Irresistible when the sim proposed?

I love weddings too. No proposals and private weddings in the bathroom for me.

Echoweaver, these two were exactly sane and didn't even drink any character-altering drinks. So... I don't know what exactly influenced their behavior. The duration of how long have they known each other? The location of the action? Mood? Definitely mood wasn't the reason, because they were happy to do everything else.

I have a mod for npc weddings. Let's see what happens when they get married. And will they be able to do it? By the way, I remembered a strange and funny moment when my sim and sim-npc exchanged rings (I forgot to turn off this autonomy) and... Nothing happened. They did not become husband and wife. I have yet to figure out exactly how it works.

This reminds me of when Sims first WooHoo and have a Sim stay the night; the next morning when the active Sim tries try to be romantic, the other Sim often refuses any romantic advances.
This has happened to my Sims many times when starting new relationships. I finally just laughed it off and figured it was the morning breath they were rebuffing and not the Sim.

Glad you got it figured out, I've also had a few relationships in my towns where a Sim gets romantic with a NPC and there always seems to be a glitch making it harder for the sims to actually be a couple. I've always had to cheat those types of couples to live together if they dated long enough, because I've never had the game move them in together without my help. (yet townies marry all the time without my help) I didn't know that was even possible without cheats. I did have an active sim marry a NPC once, but it seemed to take ages for me to even get an option of ask to marry so I too thought maybe this was deliberate on the part of the game.

JohnL83 post_id=99553 time=1707921113 user_id=18010 wrote: This reminds me of when Sims first WooHoo and have a Sim stay the night; the next morning when the active Sim tries try to be romantic, the other Sim often refuses any romantic advances.
This has happened to my Sims many times when starting new relationships. I finally just laughed it off and figured it was the morning breath they were rebuffing and not the Sim.

Yeah, there was a special atmosphere at night, a special mood... And what about in the morning? Oh, don't tell me about romance in the morning, I don't want to hear it! The bladder requires going to the toilet, the teeth have not been cleaned yet... besides, those who don't like to eat after 6 p.m. often wake up in the morning especially hungry and angry

Hm... I have a mod that makes sims communicate as long as possible before they go about their business like reading books and playing chess. Since these characters are npc, I think they really only saw each other for two or three days. Perhaps the key moment was the time spent together. I turned on all the blocked romantic interactions, but I always had problems with autonomy engagement - sims couldn't get just this stage... Somehow, miraculously, WH solved it. But I was really discouraged seeing yesterday's scene, like, "Ugh, what's wrong again?!"