ZOI's keep refusing conversations

So this kind of made the game unplayable for me.

No matter how high the relationship between two ZOIs is, they keep refusing the conversation and keep walking away from it.
I got two ZOIs that are really close but everytime I try to start even a normal conversation they just keep refusing to speak to my character and kick off.

This happens to the entire city. And I tried to turn off mods and even start a new game file but it's all still the same.