It's much easier if you get the Observant life reward. Attractive may help as well.

Um...that doesn't happen to me. I can steal a husband in 1 conversation.

Are you going from section to section. Doing romantic, romantic, funny, romantic will reset your progress. What I tend to do is friendly, friendly, friendly, friendly, friendly, friendly, funny, funny, romantic from that point on.

I just have my sim (but this is only if they have the flirty trait) confess their attraction and then they become romantic interests immediately. (special>>flirty>>confess attraction, although it sucks that this is just for flirty sims). Eventually when the option comes up, I make them go steady.

or you can use the cheat testingcheatsenabled ture and just drag their bar up if you think its taking to long for them to fall in love

Confess attraction can show up for more than just flirty sims under Romantic. It just takes longer to show up.

It also shows up pretty quick for Hopeless Romantics, along with a bunch of other options.

Ah, my bad. I guess I didn't experiment enough.

I think in TS3 the love takes something else besides a full friend bar...

Stuff that Help,

Observant reward = get traits faster
Attractive reward = makes you more attractive more likely to be loved by other sims
Hopeless Romantic Trait = Other sims get notice of your romances more quickly...
Flirty = No coments...
and not sure if Great Kisser trait...

Good mood also help also a lot of + moodlets

That's awesome! I didn't know that! My sim's political career just got SO much easier! :D

Chat em up til they're friends, flirt with them til they find you irresistible, then plant a smooch on 'em. Instant romantic interest.

Some sims simply are not attracted to each other no matter how much you would like them to be. At first I thought romance was broken in my game, because I had the same problem - they had even moved in together and had a baby but still no heart and still no "confess attraction". Then (sim) years later I noticed he was attracted to someone else and I had just been forcing them into something they didn't really want.

Once you have two sims who are really into one another, you'll know all about it.

The fact that there's only one coffee maker, and that it costs 1100.. strikes me as odd. I mean, I just want simple ordinary coffee, before going fishing 5.30 in the morning :p

Zackborg, is there anything about this thread that makes you think we're talking about coffee makers?

It takes around 30 minutes of game to me, and my sims are already willing to "Grant first kiss" to each other. Just do it and they'll fall in love, oddly. o0

haha that made me lol because i didnt even notice that his post was out of place XD

lol perhaps he was just adding a different topic to "stuff that's annoying" or something.

Back on the topic of relationships, the one thing I found annoying is that when my sim became Emperor of Evil, or whatever, she couldn't make friends with ANYONE. She had a husband, and their relationship went from love to enemies in about 2 sim hours.... Then they got a divorce, he moved out, and she met another guy -- again, love --> marriage --> enemies.

I had to make her quit her job to have kids and continue the family -- so stupid.

ah yes.. that was it. my mistake

and I DO find it annoying.

LOL, I finally got a sim to fall in love with another sim.

The bad thing is, that sim was married, and when she fell in love with him his wife kicked her out of the house and started screaming and clapping at the same time.

I was all, "lol wut". I used to do this all the time in TS2 for the lulz.

I usually never have this problem as long as I do the social interactions in order (Friendly, friendly, friendly before moving on to romantic. Switching back and forth between the two will reset your progress).

The only thing I HATE is that it takes forever to get them to Woohoo especially if the NPC is in a bad mood. I mean, my god, I understand you might be a wee bit peckish but if some young rock star is making a pass at you, you can forget about your hunger for a while!

I also wish there was a way to check other Sims' family trees. I hate it when I finally manage to make Sims fall in love and want to move in together... then I find out that the person moving in inexplicably spawned triplets and now I'm stuck with a family of 5.