Wife and kid went missing

[Dogoth]

Year 9 and my wife and kid are no where to be found. Not listed under management tab or anywhere on the map. No notification of her leaving or anything. I even loaded all available auto saves and she's missing on the previous saves too. I have not messed with the housing assignments for at least 3 years and have not moved or added any villagers during that time. Everyone is employed, happiness for all villagers has been stable at around 50% for quite a while and no shortages of essentials except one day I ran out of water for a few hours but restocked before nightfall.

Is this a bug or did I miss something?

Thank you to anyone with some insight.

[Goldi:AI]

If you do not talk with your wife and never give her gifts, she will become more and more unhappy. Eventually she will no longer love you and leave - and she takes your child with her.

[Enjoy The Journey]

“Happy wife, happy life.”

[Holyvision]

引用自 GreatGrandpa(DonaldFreddie)：

“Happy wife, happy life.”

As someone who's been married for a long time I can tell you that the correct unaltered translation of this saying is actually:

"Happy wife: life"

Keep your wife happy, and you will be permitted to live until the next day where you will need to repeat the process.

[n00B]

引用自 GoldiRie：

If you do not talk with your wife and never give her gifts, she will become more and more unhappy. Eventually she will no longer love you and leave - and she takes your child with her.

This is brilliant
In that case the game should add the possibility to build mediaval mancaves with simrigs for us men and dodgy mediaval dating sites for all lost souls to gather... for starters

In my next play thru i will start a Gucci empire from wolf skin, so that mrs gets enough gifts.

[Dogoth]

引用自 GoldiRie：

If you do not talk with your wife and never give her gifts, she will become more and more unhappy. Eventually she will no longer love you and leave - and she takes your child with her.

Okay, I thought it might be something like that. Wish I would have known and I would have paid more attention to her. I guess it wasn't enough that I feed, provided housing and safety for her and the rug rat.

[Naryoril]

引用自 Dogoth：

Okay, I thought it might be something like that. Wish I would have known and I would have paid more attention to her. I guess it wasn't enough that I feed, provided housing and safety for her and the rug rat.

Did you ever talk to her? Because whenever you do, there is an affection percentage listed, and you should have noticed it steadily dropping.

[Dogoth]

引用自 Naryoril：

引用自 Dogoth：

Okay, I thought it might be something like that. Wish I would have known and I would have paid more attention to her. I guess it wasn't enough that I feed, provided housing and safety for her and the rug rat.

Did you ever talk to her? Because whenever you do, there is an affection percentage listed, and you should have noticed it steadily dropping.

Once we had the kid I started ignoring her completely so I never noticed stats dropping. Totally my fault it happened but I feel better now that I know what went wrong.

[darknessanubis]

A slightly off topic comment here on gifts.

Have you ever noticed that the vendor that sells the gifts hangs out in taverns which means he is available to buy a gift from 24/7 (or sell stuff to).

Mentally I have the picture of a frantic husband running out to him at the last moment after all the stores have closed for an emergency birthday gift for the wife. LOL

[manbear118]

Im glad I didnt make that same mistake. I recently gave my wife a gold ring paid for by flax seeds.
Big business over here

[Short Corsican]

I like to put in an all-nighter making the potage for market the next day and I always forget to eat. Luckily when I greet my wife when she wakes up in the morning she always gives me a hearty meal. Being the frugal sort I grab a carrot to keep my belly quiet and make a few extra coins from my wife's generosity by selling the meal with the enormous pile of potage.

[zenstrata]

引用自 GoldiRie：

If you do not talk with your wife and never give her gifts, she will become more and more unhappy. Eventually she will no longer love you and leave - and she takes your child with her.

The wife mechanic desperately needs more options. Add the option to kiss or hug, or have a mechanic that has her prepare a meal at zero resource cost, and you can all sit down and eat as a family. (basically a free food mechanic that works once per day when the player triggers the meal.)

[B\W/C Pur·ple]

引用自 Goldi:AI：

If you do not talk with your wife and never give her gifts, she will become more and more unhappy. Eventually she will no longer love you and leave - and she takes your child with her.

Happened to me to. But all the gifts I bought never appeared in the gift list when I talked to her. So couldnt gave her anything.

[Wizard of Woz]

引用自 B\W/C Pur·ple：

引用自 Goldi:AI：

If you do not talk with your wife and never give her gifts, she will become more and more unhappy. Eventually she will no longer love you and leave - and she takes your child with her.

Happened to me to. But all the gifts I bought never appeared in the gift list when I talked to her. So couldnt gave her anything.

Because you were buying gifts for men or children. Each gift is for a specific person, it is in the description.
Also just create your own topic instead of necroing a few year old topic that has a chance of being outdated since this game is updated a few times a year.

[MoLi]

Nah this sounds like the start of the next instalment in the Taken franchise. Go hunt down Lubos and save your family!