Question about cycles

[flybox]

Apologies if a detailed answer to this is somewhere to be found, and I just missed it, but I play rotationally, and I've noticed lately that virtually every time I load into a household, all the females are either on or just about to start their periods. Does anyone know how the days in a sims cycle count when you are not playing them? Does their cycle just pause? Maybe it just so happens that I stopped playing a lot of households when I didn't want to deal with a period, and so now when I come back, they are right where I left them? Or does it reset when you come back to them, and this just happens to be where they start? Or does it keep counting, and I'm just unlucky in that almost all of my sims have synced up their cycles somehow?

[TURBODRIVER]

Hey! Sims cycle doesn't pause or reset, it always progresses and affects non-playable Sims as well.