So have you ever had a couple get divorced and then somehow get back together later?

I did it once for fun. Made a couple break up and get married 5 times, as tribute to General Hospital's Carly and Sonny

But once it did happen naturally. I had Cassandra Goth get married to this old dude I made, Devin, who was very grumpy. Bad personality. They loved each other and had a son, but they argued so much it was hard to get them to stay positive. I wasn't seeing a good relationship so I made them fight and they got to the point where they could break up (Before I had mods to do it an easier way).

She married Malcolm Landgraab IV and was helping run his electronic business and who showed up but Devin. He just. Kept. Coming. Around. He literally wouldn't leave Cassie alone! He was always there! At her shop! At her HOME! And this was before I had ACR. And she was just DRAWN to him. Eventually they became best friends again and I felt so bad that I broke them up, she cheated on Malcolm and got back together with Devin. And they got remarried...and died with my old laptop that fried up...

So anyone else ever have this happen? With or without ACR or controlled by you?

a Sonny and Carly reference in sims 2..... you are now my new best friend LOL. My all time favorite soap couple EVER and not just because i'm a male version of Carly.

I haven't actually ever done that in game or had it happen mostly because i want to spread around genetics so once i feel a couple has done all they can i let them move on to different sims. Though now thinking about the logistics of it in regards to sims inventories and properties i may want to try it out to see if i could make some base rules as to how property is divided in divorces.

I don't understand the Sonny and Carly reference but then I don't watch soap operas.
I haven't had Sims remarry after divorcing although it could have happened if I let it. I had a male sim who constantly fought with his wife for no apparent reason so I made them split up. However, she still wanted to keep in touch with him but my storyline changed to make him a bit of a cad, more interested in material possessions.

It's my policy to put divorced couples back together if I play them. I hate divorce.

Most of my pixels don't divorce, but when they do, they stay divorced.
It takes a lot for the divorce to happen, and it's hard for them to forget the reason behind it, so I've not had the chance to do it, yet.

Although sometimes they do call each other up for the random woohoo because they're lonely...

I had that happen once. Erin cheated on her husband and he kicked her out to live with her younger sister. However he came by a lot and eventually let her move back in for the sake of their children, then ACR took over and they got back together.

Sure he wasn't after a younger model?

@SingleClawDesigns *high five* Yeah! Glad someone got it Have you been watching lately...ugh.

I find it really interesting that alot of people don't separate their sims. If there was a better system in the game that dealt with it, would more players be open to the idea?

It would have to be a really good reason for divorce. I like to keep my sims happy.

Oh he definitely got it on with her sister. I don't think there is any guy in the hood that Adelaide hasn't had in her bed :D

I think it's very easy to keep sims together indefinitely without mods, drama or external rules. So I add some rules because most people in real life have more than one relationship in their life. But if they are close enough to get married, they don't often break up.

Most of my married sims who break up do so over cheating, but I will also make sims break up if they let their relationship stagnate (through lack of autonomy or lack of wants), which is a common break up cause for younger couples, and occasionally I'll add some story reason which makes sense - some of my sims hide that they are criminals from their friends and family, so finding out that your partner is secretly a criminal is a cause for furiousness, which they may fix or make worse (I always break up violent relationships). Bad dates or comments after bad dates might cause a ruckus, as could some other randomly occurring events.

I sort of have a couple like that? One is a police officer and the other was a stay at home dad until he recently got a job as substitute teacher. (Sorry. I love them, but I don't remember names right now.) The guys were married for a long time and had 4 kids, but the teacher was caught cheating and kicked out of the house. He kept coming by the house to kick over the garbage can and visit the kids. Oddly enough, my now divorced couple woohoo whenever the the teacher visits the house. They're still angry with each other about the breakup, but it seems they're starting to get along much better. Wouldn't shock me if they got back together soon.

I had one couple who broke up over the stress of their unexpected quads and the father being a lazy douchebag. They shuffled on alone for a while - the mother raising quad toddlers plus a singleton alone in a single room after she lost their flat due to lack of funds. (She was on her knees.) I really thought they were over for good, but then he started visiting them every day and helping out. It was so sweet. She kept rolling wants to talk to him. I ended up letting them get back together, it was just too sad. They are close now IIRC, I haven't played that hood in a while.

I enjoy a bit of drama (and fisticuffs) - a good few of my sim relationships have broken down over various stuff. Dealing with the aftermath can be as much fun as making the relationships in the first place.

Most of my sim marriages end by death so the phrase "death do us part" is quite literal in my game lmfao. That being said though, I've had one marriage end because the friend of the husband flirted with his wife, who turned it down, and got so angry about it he slapped her in front of their newly adopted child. They broke up immediately and he went to live in a converted shipping container. They never rolled wants about each other, although he did roll wants to interact with his children, and unfortunately he died from the flu during that winter. One of his kids wants to bring him back to life, so there's going to be a necromancer in Exhaustion Valley if I ever get around to that house again.
When I first played though, I accidentally broke up a family because I wanted to see what "find own place" would do, like if it would bring up a menu or something. The way the husband elf sim sobbed because his wife was leaving and taking their two kids really touched me so I really wanted to avoid breaking sims up after that unless it was something severe like violence or serial cheating.

Many of my sims couples lived together and had children before marriage already, so when they take the big step they do so because they've already seen that it works. If, against expectation, is doesn't work out for whatever reason, oftentimes they part ways, but do not divorce.
In Sims 4 a mother of two took one kid and left two days before marriage, because her prospective husband "renewed his friendship" with an alien princess and returned pregnant. It was quite a blow to the family and I think of them as divorced, even though technically without ever having been married they cannot divorce.
In Sims 2 Goneril and Hal were banished from Veronaville for treason, but Albany stayed behind with the girls. Officially they are still married, despite the risk of their union backfirering on either Goneril or Albany if politics ever change.

divorced just 1 sim couple; Daniel & Mary-Sue. that was in a past time playing; did not get them back together in that time playing.
edit:: they remained together in other times playing.

I've never had a divorced couple get back together. Occasionally one will role wants to, but my personal rules require both to want to. The only times I've had sims break up was over adultery that wasn't mutually agreed on. I have some sims with open marriages where they both have side-partners.

I didn't have too many divorces when I first started my neighborhood but now with SO many sims + ACR my sims are constantly cheating on each other at parties where I can't control them.

I had a couple who divorced after the wife cheated on him twice, they lived separately but kept booty calling each other after their divorce. Since they had a child together and their siblings were married to each other. I eventually just had them move in together again and get remarried. But this time the husband kept their finances separate just in case

Just once, actually. In my last iteration of Pleasantview, Daniel and Mary-Sue​ divorced and lived separately for the remainder of their adult lives. Daniel fathered a kid with Nina Caliente, lived with the Caliente sisters for a bit but was run out after it came out that he was sleeping with the both of them. He had nothing really to his name, no ties to any of his three children. He lived in a crappy condo for a time until running into Mary-Sue at a mutual friend's party, now both of them elders, and they caught up. They began dating again, moved in together to Mary-Sue's stylish little house, and married the day before Daniel's time was up. It was really very sweet, and I wish I could have recreated it all in my current Pleasantview. This time around, Dan perished in a fire post-divorce and Mary-Sue is a successful journalist and socialite -- has an affair with Darren Dreamer.

I had a divorced couple who were too poor, so they still lived together with their children. When he remarried she slept on the couch. He had a child with his second wife, but I don't remember if his first wife liked them. Anyway, when his second wife died he and his first wife came back together, and remarried in front of their children - and of her stepchild. They remained in love for the rest of their lives.

I'm going to have one, I think? Except they're not quite divorced...

Jill Smith and Francis J. Worthington got together at university, and got engaged. Then at a graduation party Francis had lots of "juice" to drink, and someone else influenced him to kiss another girl. The relationship went down in flames.

A couple of years later, Francis married someone else, only she's a romance sim who has had several affairs - and Francis has just found out. So they're getting divorced... and Francis met Jill again at a community lot. I liked them, and they seem to like each other again, so this might be interesting...

On divorce in general in the game: in my Strangetown game I haven't really had any - Francis and Marielle are the first, in 20 years of sim time. I tend to not let sims marry unless I think they're suited, and they don't tend to have affairs (I don't have or want ACR). Maybe when I have a few more older couples there might be some who find that with their children grown they don't have anything in common, I don't know.

In my Pleasantview game, however, I have a set of mods that make 12 sim days = 1 sim year, and there is lots of relationship drama - so in the 9 months or so I've played Daniel and Mary-Sue are divorcing, Don is having several affairs despite his new marriage, and Mortimer and Dina seem on track for both a wedding and a divorce - she's keen to marry him, but can't stay away from Don... When I get back to that neighbourhood and play things some more, it's likely that there'll be a divorce and re-marriage at some point.

My sims also seldom divorce. If sim couples would grow apart naturally sometimes, the way it happens in real life I think I would be more inclined to have my sims divorce. But even without acr once two sims fall in love, it's so hard to have their relationship fall on its own to a significant level to were I feel a divorce might be in order.
However when I do have sims divorce I have never really consider getting them back together. I don't take marriage lightly and if a couple has a good enough reason to divorce then its good enough for them to stay away from one another. I might if say they where young enough that I could play it off as they don't know how to work out their differences and gave up till they were older. but usually I have my sims date while before getting marred any way. I have kind of have a lose rule that they have to date for at least one in game week before marriage. Partly because I believe it important for prospective couples to get a feel of what it would be like to be married to each other before taking the actual leap. And largely because I play with a longer lifespan where if new adults start having children right away their kids become adults long before they become elders.

In the first days of my hood there was this mysterious family, the Zeiglers. There was Luke, Natasha, and Otto. I think my sister made them. However we could never find them on the hood map but they were clearly made in CAS because going through game folder pics, there was a CAS pic of this family. To get them to appear to play them again we had a sim befriend them and then ask them to move in, from there I stuck them into a castle in the far reach corners of Kashmire and forgot about them. I think Luke and Natasha were married and Otto was their brother. Anyway YEARS and YEARS later like maybe a year ago, the wife of an old man named James Francis dies while my sister is playing him. She happens to catch Natasha walking by (she is very distinct and has pink hair) and they hit it off. Natasha ends up moving in with James and gets preggo. James dies because he's just that old. Natasha then invites Luke to come live with her and they get married. So in a way, this woman left her first love to be with an old man and then married her ex-lover, which is kind of relevant to the topic. Otto got eaten by a cow plant in 2009, if anyone was wondering.

Also, I would agree with SingleClawDesigns said above that if there were an easier mechanism for divorce I'd probably do it a lot more often. The reason I don't is because it's a hassle, and I don't like to see my sims very unhappy.