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| [3.2] Love                                                                  |
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Love is a very important aspect of The Sims 2.  If you don't have a love, you
can't get married, can't have children, and you'll die old and alone.

Compared to the first game, it's a lot harder to fall in love with someone this
time around.  You can't keep performing the same actions over and over again to
increase your relationship, otherwise you risk damaging your relationship and
having actions fail.

Assuming you are starting with a Sim whose relationship with you is zero, you
will want to get started by talking.  Only use the "Chat" action, as bragging
can have a bad effect.  After you get between fifteen and twenty (which may
take some time, depending on compatible your Sims are), throw in a "Joke" and
the odd friendly hug.  At twenty-five to thirty, start appreciating and
flirting with the Sim.  "Admire" and "Backrub" both work good, and "Suggestion"
and "Hit On" are good flirting actions.

When you get to about forty-five, throw in a friendly kiss, like the Peck, and
keep appreciating/flirting with the Sim.  Once you get past fifty, you should
be friends, so now flirt and appreciate.  Use the bigger flirt actions, like
"Caress", and keep "Admiring" and "Backrub"-ing the Sim.   Once you get to
sixty, start kissing and hugging.  If everything is fine, and your two Sims are
compatible, you should get a crush (the small, pink-colored heart) by seventy
or seventy-five.

Now, you're pretty much free to do whatever you want.  Do romantic/tender
kisses, and once you hit eighty, start "Making Out".  Once you reach 100, if
you're not lovers yet, kiss and hug two times in a row, but never three times
in a four-hour game-time period, or the action will most likely fail.

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