Considering how The Sims Mobile [Free] has made itself right at home on the free apps chart, it's quite possible you're one of the millions of mobile gamers who has already dipped your toes into Maxis and EA's latest take on simulated life. You've tested out a career, attended a party or two and gussied up your clothes and house, probably more than once. Yet you may not have been able to avoid a very simple question: Is there something more"
That's a pretty existential query for a free-to-play mobile game, and not one we're going to investigate without tongue at least partially in cheek. It's pretty simple to get another playable Sim in the game early on so your first Sim has a roommate. But when it comes to the more lasting ties, the ones that hopefully form through romance, marriage and even bearing children, that takes a little more work on your part. Let's start with the easiest part, which is how to get your Sim into a relationship in the first place, which thankfully is much easier and way less fraught with text and social media-inspired peril than it is IRL.

A Brief Overview of Relationships and Love in the Sim World

You may or may not be surprised to learn that the road to a relationship with any other Sim in The Sims Mobile starts with an introduction. When you first encounter any other Sim you've not already met, you'll have a choice of three potential introductions: Friendly, Flirty and Confrontational. This initial choice controls which of the relationshi...