Trying to get your Miis to fall in love in Tomodachi Life: Living The Dream leads to all sorts of antics, unrequited feelings, and, above all, romance.

We will walk you through navigating romance, marriage, and relationships in this handy guide. For all of our other guides and walkthroughs, visit our dedicated Tomodachi Life: Living The Dream page.

Crushes

Crushes can develop between Miis on your island, and there are a few ways you can help encourage feelings to blossom.

The best way to encourage romance is to keep having two Miis interact. Do this by dragging and dropping them next to each other to force them to interact, and by bringing Miis over to help anyone who is frozen or in a hiccup loop. If you want Miis to fall for each other, the more interactions the better.

Compatibility

Your residents won’t be able to form crushes on each other if there is no chance of feelings being returned. For example, if you have two female Miis, but one is only attracted to men and the other to women, there is no chance of crushes developing between them. We have to set them up for success somewhat!

How To Know If Feelings are Developing

There are two ways Miis might reveal their feelings to you: a romantic cutscene or a custom thought bubble.

Romantic Cutscenes

When these cutscenes happen, it is absolutely adorable!

You’ll notice one of your Miis staring at another, and when you click to interact with them, the cutscene will play out.

Once it plays out, you have the option to choose whether or not to encourage this crush to blossom or if your Mii is just imagining their feelings. If you choose to let romance blossom, you’ll see the relationship between the two residents change.

Thought Bubbles

If your Miis want to talk to you about a blossoming romance, they will get a pink thought bubble above their head.

From there, you will be able to talk to them about who they are developing a crush on and either encourage it or dismiss it.

If your Mii already has a crush on someone and then starts developing romantic feelings for someone new, they’ll ask you who they really like, which gives you a little bit of control over the romances on your island.

Fading Feelings

Miis are fickle with their romantic connections and will fall out of love as quickly as they fell for someone. All it can take is a bad joke, and all of a sudden, those feelings of romance have vanished.

You can encourage them to rekindle romantic feelings by pushing them together, encouraging conversations around the island, and bringing them over to help a Mii who has frozen or gotten stuck in a hiccup loop. Since they have already developed feelings for them once, it will take less time to rekindle those feelings.

Confessing Attraction

Eventually, the time will come when your residents will want to express their feelings!

They will have the ‘wants to confess’ relationship label for a while before the event gets triggered, so once you see both Miis have the ‘wants to confess’ label, keep encouraging them to spend time together to hurry things along. After a while, you’ll notice the pink thought bubble above one of their heads, and chances are, this is them getting ready to tell you they want to declare their feelings.

You will be able to control how they do this in a series of options menus, where you will choose the location and vibe for this expression of love.

After that, you’ll be treated to a really cute cutscene where you just have to sit back and hope the feelings are reciprocated!

Marriage

Once two of your Miis have been sweethearts for a couple of days and spent plenty of time together, they will eventually have the option to get married.

You’ll see one of the couple’s members have a pink thought bubble above their head and then tell you they want to ask their sweetheart to marry them. You can then discourage it if you want to.

As long as the other resident says yes, you’ll immediately get taken to a cute marriage cutscene where all your Miis have gathered to celebrate this blossoming romance, and see them whisked away on a honeymoon.

Unrequited Love, Getting Rejected, & Trying Again

Not all romantic feelings on your island are going to be returned.

Sometimes Miis can get the wrong idea and think that someone has feelings for them when they don’t, and if they act on it, they will almost certainly be rejected.

Miiis that get rejected will have their happiness metre replaced with a sadness metre and won’t participate in island activities until they’re cheered up.

You can also encourage them to try again if you think they might react differently (or if you just want to see your Mii get rejected again).

Turns out cake or other gifts are a good way to seal the deal!

Miis will also be rejected if the person they are confessing their attraction to is already in love with or sweethearts with another resident on the island. So it doesn’t appear that Miis can have wandering eyes once they’re in relationships or cheating spouses.

Coping With Rejection

No one likes being rejected, and it’s no different for your Miis.

There are things you can do to help them cope with sadness, like feed them their favourite foods or give them gifts, but often they will just want to be left alone.

You can encourage your other island residents to come over and try to cheer them up by dragging and dropping them into their vicinity. It’s more likely to work if they are already close.

You might witness the most awkward small talk you’ve ever seen, or some genuinely sweet moments.

Something To Remember

Before you start playing island matchmaker, it’s important to remember that whilst the randomness of the game is one of its biggest selling points, it also means you can’t control who falls for who, how long the romantic feelings last, or really any kind of micromanagement of relationships. All you can do is gently nudge two Miis together by encouraging them to interact.

We’d love to hear what your island residents have been getting up to! Have you had any success with romantic relationships between your Miis? Let us know below and on social media.