Relationships are a major part of a sim’s life inThe Sims 2.

A sim must engage in social interactions with others to make it build relationships with them.

Certain interactions such as telling jokes can improve a relationship when successful or impact it negatively when failed.

A sim speaking in front of a mirror in The Sims 2.

To succeed more in socialization, sims should improve their Charisma skill.

This is especially important when a sim has aspirations that are all aboutimproving relationships with other sims.

Sims that aspirations linked to relationship-building will need tosucceed in certain interactionsto gain aspiration points.

Collage of a sim with dark hair and a mustache dreaming about cooking but looking miserable in a suit and eating a bowl of beans alone in his apartment.

Failing these interactions may lead to adeduction in aspiration pointsif a corresponding aspiration penalty is active.

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The different actions that can be done with a mirror in The Sims 2.

Collage of a sim at a computer typing away with an image of them having an awkward conversation is overlayed.

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