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
This point system determines whether or not your Sim will experience a Midlife crisis. If your Sim experiences enough of these following events for the combined points to be 1, he or she will experience a Midlife crisis.


 * 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 house, 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)

Midlife crisis wishes
Once or twice a day your sim will get a midlife crisis wish, you may or may not choose to select it. The wishes look the same as regular wishes, but they have a red background. But beware - once you promise a midlife crisis wish to a sim, it cannot be cancelled, and will disappear after the midlife crisis is over. Moreover, when a midlife crisis wish has been promised, 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.

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

Avoiding Midlife Crisis'
There are currently two known ways to avoid experiencing a Midlife crisis.
 * 1) The first way to avoid a Midlife crisis is to make sure your Sim has less than 1 point from the list above. Simple, but effective.
 * 2) The second way is quite different to the first. Your Sim must be in the middle of a Midlife crisis for the option to "Get Therapy" from the hospital, curing the crisis and removing the moodlet. However, this is quite expensive, at §2,000.