Midlife crisis

A midlife crisis is an event that occurs in The Sims 3: Generations, triggered when a young adult sim transitions to an adult sim, and is shown by a moodlet which lasts 7 days.

There are a few ways to calculate if your sim will experience a midlife crisis through a point system, or an easier option is a tuning mod.

Point system

 * Low Career level or unemployed adds 0.2 points
 * Getting married early adds 0.1 points
 * Never married also adds 0.1 points
 * Having children early adds 0.1 points
 * Having skills at level 1 adds 0.1 points
 * If your sim never moved it adds 0.1
 * For every breakup, 0.05 points are added
 * For every divorce, 0.1 points are added
 * For every death experienced, 0.2 points are added
 * Having a relationship below the mid line adds 0.2 points
 * Having the Ambitious or Commitment Issues traits add 0.1 points

'Early' means at the beginning of the young adult life stage, any amount of time after that and the points are less)

If your sim experiences enough of these events for the combined points to be 1, he or she will experience a midlife crisis.

Once or twice a day your sim will get a midlife crisis wish, you may or may not choose to select it. It works like the general wish system. If you have selected the wish, the midlife crisis moodlet will turn negative until the wish is fulfilled. Wishes may vary but some will include getting a divorce, quiting work or moving house.

Once your sim's midlife crisis is over, they will get a moodlet depending on how many wishes were fulfilled.


 * 6 wishes will give you the Supremely fulfilled moodlet (adds 1250 lifetime points)
 * 3 wishes will give you the Pleasantly fulfilled moodlet (adds 750 lifetime points)
 * 1 wish will give you the Barely fulfilled moodlet (adds 250 lifetime points)

During the midlife crisis, adults can also get the special 'feeling alive' moodlet when driving in a vehicle costing §50,000 and up.