#anti ted mosby

[alphawolfice1989]

Ted might want to change his last name for robin but she gives her last name to barney

[sherlockholmesmypiratesociopath]

Rewatching himym. Did you know that Barney who is the man sult of the group, took Ted with him so Ted would have fun? This man saw another dude coasting through life and waiting for something to happen so the dude's life could be fulfilling and said to himself I am gonna make his life better. Barney understands someone's deep down issues and tries to help. Yet Ted treats him like shit. Always your not my best friend and why do I hang out with you. Barney sees an awesome moment and goes it means less without friends. Did I also mention he knew all the taxi cab driver's names and treated them like members of the gang/his friends? So yes I believe Ted the unreliable narrator made Barney look worse so his kids would be okay with him perusing Barney's ex wife. Like Ted didn't deserve Robin or Tracy. Barney didn't deserve his treatment in the finale.

[hello-nichya-here]

No, the HIMYM finale is not secretly genius, stop lying to yourselves

The series finale of How I Met Your Mother, with Robin divorcing Barney and then getting together with Ted, a widower, years later could have been great. Yes, I'm serious.

Two people that were NOT soulmates and did NOT work out as couple when they were in their 20s met their true soulmates but life made them split up, and then they got a second chance of happiness with each other because, despite not being a perfect match they were at a point where they could make it work? Could totally work as a "bittersweet" ending. It's not "happily ever after" but it still finding happiness after the tragedy that stole their actual happily ever after, which is a valid, totally compelling story to tell.

But the writers completely destroyed any chance of it working as a satisfying story because the ending simply doesn't work as a twist and foreshadowing can't compete with consistent characterization.

The finale would only ever work if we had gotten to see the years of character development that were supposed to lead up to it. We'd have to SEE Barney and Robin's marriage deteriorating. We'd have too SEE Tracy's struggle with her illness and then Ted's years of grief. We'd have to SEE Ted and Robin slowly reconnecting and realizing that they've changed so much that can actually be a decent couple now - and more importantly, we have to see them CHANGE IN A WAY THAT MAKES THEM COMPATIBLE, NOT SIMPLY REVERSING THEM BACK TO HOW THEY WERE IN THE PILOT EPISODE BECAUSE THEY WERE ALREADY INCOMPATIBLE BACK THEN!

The show spent 98% of it's time building up to the "red-herring" of a Barney/Robin & Ted/Tracy endgame, with only the ocasional hints that this wasn't actually going to happen. It spent 9 fucking years, 9 seasons of 20+ episodes, building up to it this false endgame. Then suddenly the finale they try to give us SIXTEEN YEARS IN 40 MINUTES, expecting the audience the do the writer's jobs for them and fill in the blanks.

If they had given us the "fake ending" in the middle of the show, then spent the following seasons building up to the true ending, the finale wouldn't have been hated. Sure, no one would be surprised by the events in it, but anyone who didn't want Ted and Robin together would have bailed on the series a long time ago anyway.

And that's why they didn't do it. Because they knew most people didn't want these two to be endgame, LOVED Barney's growth as a character, and were not only eagerly waiting to meet Tracy but were also blown away by how she managed to be even better than we imagined. They wanted to have it both ways: give the audience what they wanted AND say "Sorry, this is our story, if you don't like it you don't have to watch it." It's cowardly, pathetic and a deep betrayal of the audience's trust, because people CAN accept not being given what they wanted - but they don't accept being lied to.

We never saw Barney be frustrated by Robin's work or by constant traveling before the finale - he's the "challenge accepted" guy, for fuck's sake, he used to go random trips just for the sake of having an adventure with his friends - thefore we don't believe that he is miserable enough that he'd want to end their marriage.

You can't show us Robin repeatedly choosing Barney over Ted, give us an insane scene of her covering Ted's face during sex to pretend she's sleeping with someone else, having her react to what she thinks is a proposal with 'You can't do this to me!", and even saying, to his face, that she doesn't love him, and then pretend that she totally still had feelings for him this entire time.

Even Ted pointed out, during this wedding to Stella, that Robin isn't hoping he'll remain single because she genuinely wants him, but because she's just afraid of being alone. C&C cannot convince general audiences, or critics, that she loves this man after they literally described the show as "The story of man that is in love with a woman, and she doesn't want that."

They can't tell me Ted genuinely loved Robin when he was constantly irritated by everything that makes her who she is: the fact that she's career-driven, always takes charge of everything, doesn't want kids, likes to travel around because she wants life to be an adventure, doesn't seem to believe in fate or soulmates, is a gun enthusiast, etc. They can't tell me they'd make it work when that's still who Robin is a person and Ted would still be irritated by it.

They DEFINITIVELY cannot convince me that him being hung up on her for so long means anything when he meets a new potential "soulamte" every other week, and will ALSO fall back in love with multiple exes the second he runs into them again, or so much as thinks back to the good old times.

And they absolutely cannot fucking tell me that he'd still be hung up on her after 25 fucking years, after he met his actual soulmate - unless they want me to believe the woman that was basically born from his rib is not his soulmate, which I call bullshit on.

And no, finale defenders, you cannot make this an inspirational "He found happiness with an old flame after his true love passed away because life is messy like that" when the show itself said, all the way back in season two "If Ted and Robin got married, they'd inevitably divorce, handle terribly, and screw up any kids they had."

Because yes, that's a thing that happens. When Robin meets Ted's parents, there's a whole misunderstanding about the dad supposedly cheating on the mom - and then we discover that actually they've been divorced FOR A LONG TIME, and just never told their kids because REASONS. Ted is even outraged that "Is this what passes for communication in this family?" More importantly, he and Robin, who are wearing the same colors as his parents, are shocked as they realize that the reasons for their divorce were the same reasons that made Robin not want to want Ted - the same reasons that would make them break up episodes later.

The writting is on the wall here. Ted and Robin will inevitably split up, and his kids will resent them both for getting them caught in the crossfire. Ted is already taking a page from his parents' book on How To Suck At Communicating Like A Normal Person by claiming he's gonna tell a story about their mother, only to then be like "Actually, this about how I love someone else and want to date her now."

"Oh, you just don't get it! The show was never about the Yellow Umbrella (Tracy)! It was about the Blue French Horn (Robin)!"

Yeah. It was about Robin. About how she's completely wrong for Ted and how they could never be happy together. About how he needs to let go of this obsession before it ruins his life and his relationship with everyone else that he is hurting during his attempts of getting with her: Victoria, Barney, Tracy, his children, and even Robin herself.

This is not a bittersweet ending. This is not a happy ending. This is two delusional writers ACCIDENTALLY giving their characters the most miserable endgame possible, and being convinced that they're giving us a fairy-tale ending - because yeah, that's what they thought. They weren't even aiming for bittersweet. They were never aiming for "Tragedy happens, but life goes on and you can still find happiness in it." They thought that Robin and Ted being so distraught by their awful lives that they convince themselves they were meant to be, and then go on to ruin their already shiity lives even more, was the most perfect happily ever after anyone could ask for.

The finale COULD have been great. Instead it was the worst thing imaginable, and the very fact that people can only try to defend it by WILDLY misterpreting what the writers wanted them to take from it is proof of how poorly thought out and written it was.

No one likes it for what it is, they like it for what they PRETEND it is. That simple fact is more insulting to this ending than anything I or anyone else could possibly say.

[humblefryingpan]

In how I met your mother Tracy's partner (idk husband/fiance/boyfriend?) died and she refused to date anyone for years. Even when she did she "asked him" first

And then she died and her husband (the father of her two kids) got back with his ex? Really Ted?

[nerdylibertarian928]

Me before the himym finale: stella was a major bitch to ted for leaving at the altar for her ex tony, moving to new york with tony when she refused to do so for ted, asked ted to get tony to take her back, and letting tony write that screenplay that made ted look bad

Me after the himym finale: i change my mind stella was right to do that to ted

[piperslovebot]

Ross Samantha Geller and Ted Vivian/Evelyn Mosby can choke.

[allfuckstogiveinaburningpile]

The entirety of Ted and Robin’s romance revolved around the characters (side characters, their friends, complete strangers) telling Robin how nice of a guy Ted was and why wouldn’t she want to be with him?? And then when she caves, and the relationship really doesn’t work (because of Ted trying to mold her into something different) but he still persists and doesn’t let go and doesn’t accept it, she really does start to feel like there is something wrong with her, it can’t be Ted of course cause he’s soooo nice and everyone knows it so it has to be her. It’s just such a cruel thing to do to Robin’s character and even when she wasn’t with him there was always that pressure. I think most moments where she didn’t have to endure that were during and after her relationship with Barney. And the best thing about it is that when it didn’t work out the first time? They accepted it, they talked about it as adults, they were okay. Even if they hadn’t tried again just that detail would’ve proved Swarkles superior to Schmosby.

Ted does not truely love robin. At least not in the first few seasons. he was obsessed with her, yet he didn't like anything about who she actually was. They didn't like the same things. He just wants to "fix" her into being a perfect wife for him, but she doesn't need fixing. He literally told her he didn't like how independent she was and wished she was more needy because it made him feel bad. Barney, despite his flaws, likes robin for who she is. He loves that she's independent and likes scotch and guns and basically the same kinda stuff he does. They get along really well. Robin LIKES Barney for who he is. robin felt obligated to be with Ted. It's obvious because after their relationship is over it doesn't take long for her to move on. But with Barney, she stays hung up on him even after their breakup. Ted was pining after the idea of robin while Robin was missing Barney, and he was missing her. she actually liked him, she pursued him on her own. Ted had to spend weeks begging for her to give him a chance. It was just...so annoying to watch Ted try and force robin into the role he wanted for her, meanwhile Robin and Barney were falling into actual love. Even though it wasn't perfect, it was real love. Robin let Barney know who she really was. Robin could be herself around Barney. She could never do that with Ted because he was always critical of her behavior and wanting her to change for him.

[alphawolfice1989]

Robin chose to hang out with barney instead of going to a wedding with ted

[sherlockholmesmypiratesociopath]

Ted Mosby, the man who broke up with a woman on her birthday via answering machine during her birthday party. It caused her to stop celebrating it for like 3 years. Then breaks up with her on another birthday. We are supposed to like this guy?

[hello-nichya-here]

The dude who tried (and sometimes succeeded) in trying to win over women that were married/about to be married not once, not twice, but FIVE FUCKING TIMES!

I'm sorry but TED DID WHAT?!

Yup, you read it right. Ted Mosby, the guy that the writers were constantly trying to push as the perfect, most romantic lead in the whole world, apparently has a very serious homewrecking kink.

The first time was in season one, with Ted going to a matchmaker, and finding out that the only woman he'd be a good match with already went out with a guy that was slightly less ideal (according to the computer) and is engaged to him. Ted then finds out she's a doctor, goes to her place of work, and tries to convince her he is her soulmate, not her fiance - who she'll be marrying VERY soon.

Ted doesn't know this woman. Literally the only information he has is "She went on a matchmaker and her profile was a lot like his." That's it. That is all the excuse he needs to try to sabotage someone's wedding. This is also one of the few times in which we are supposed to be laughing at him, instead of wanting him to get the girl. Well, I think that was the intention, but God knows I stopped expecting common sense from this show a LONG time ago.

The second time homewrecking Ted is seen is during season 3. He decides to "live like Barney" (because OBVIOUSLY Ted would neeeever decide to do something like this on his own, please ignore the previous exemple, and the next three) and hooks up with a married woman during a party, and feels exactly zero shame or guilt over it until Marshall talks some sense into him. This is the LAST time in which we'll see that kind of behavior from Ted be treated as explicitly wrong by the show - even though his actions will only get worse.

Homewrecking Ted comes back in season 6, when he falls for Zoey, a married woman. A married woman he is constantly spending time with even though EVERYONE is warning him that this isn't going to end well as they all can see that what they have isn't just friendship. All except Zoey's husband, who thinks Ted is a great guy - in fact, when Zoey leaves him, the poor guy comes to the bastard for comfort, because he thought Ted was his friend.

Ted is 100% in the wrong, but the show thinks that his search for "The One" justifies everything plus they technically didn't become an item before Zoey made up her mind about who she wanted, so it's totally okay that she left her husband for him - after all, she could have maybe possibly been the woman of Ted's dreams, so who cares if she was the love of someone else's, her husband's, life.

The fourth time is at the end of season seven, when he falls back in love with his ex, Victoria, even though she will be getting married soon. The two of them almost hook up, but decide against it... for a little while. On the wedding day, Victoria wants to leave her fiance at the altar, and Ted is tempted to be with her, but he decides to do the right thing and take her to the church where the wedding will happen... and then changes his mind while driving, because once again, who cares about the other completely innocent dude when Ted needs to find "The One" - he is the ONLY person who deserves someone who loves him, right?

The show tries to remedy that by having Ted demand Victoria leave her would-be-husband a letter explaining why she wouldn't marry him because that's what Stella did with him. Guess what? That doesn't mean shit, he's still doing something horrible. A "I stole your future wife, man, sorry. But I made her write you a letter" doesn't fix a goddamn thing.

Oh, but the groom left too! Because turns out Victoria was NOT the right woman for him! That totally excuses Ted's behavior right? OF COURSE NOT! He didn't even know that when he decided to be with Victoria. As far as he knew, that dude was going to be left utterly heartbroken in the exact same way he himself once was - and he still thought he was justified in what he was doing.

And now we reach the big one. Season 8. Ted and Victory break up because, this whole time, during the years in which Ted has been pulling this kind of bullshit, he was actually NOT thinking that the doctor, or Zoey, or Victoria were "The One", as his true love was Robin all along, and SHE is the one he knew he'd always come back to - THEN WHY THE FUCK DID HE TRY, AND SOMETIMES SUCCEED, IN RUINING OTHER PEOPLE'S LIVES?

And how does he handle the fact that the supposed love of his life is actually not interested in him, wants to marry someone else, and that someone else happens to be a friend of his that has REPEATEDLY asked Ted for his blessing to pursue Robin?

Well, you see, he sulks about how Robin should leave Barney for him. Because, you know, he loves her more, saw her first, dated her first, is the better man, found a locket she had buried years ago, dramaticly held her hand while it was raining and whatever excuse the writers can come up with to pretend Ted is only trying to sabotage his friend's wedding because "It's true love!" and not at all because he is a selfish, entitled asshole who has a habit of doing that.

In fact, on the morning of her wedding, Ted STILL wants to profess his supposed love for Robin, only to get shut down again AS SHE OBVIOUSLY MADE HER CHOICE VERY CLEAR A LONG TIME AGO.

Oh, but the writers want more drama and have her suddenly get cold feet and ask Ted why shouldn't she be with the guy who loves her so much. And what does Ted, the guy who has been sulking about losing her for months and stabbed Barney in the back by telling his bride he loves her and wants her to give him another chance, say as a response?

"The truth is I don't love you like that anymore. And you don't love me, you love Barney"

Yeah, we know that, asshole. We've known that for a while. And apparently so did you this entire time, YET YOU STILL TRIED TO STEAL HER FROM BARNEY MERE HOURS AGO! WHY DO YOU KEEP DOING THIS?

Simple: because Ted is in love with the idea of love, and will project romantic feelings onto anything that breathes and has a pulse, and will go to absurd lengths to win over the (temporary) object of his affection, even if it means destroying people's lives - and in fact, that drastic consequence often doesn't even register as a factor in his mind.

And what do the writers of How I Met Your Mother do with this obvious character flaw? They use it to claim Ted is a true romantic, a SYMPATHETIC lead, the nicest of all nice guys, and eventually reward him by letting him have BOTH the actual perfect woman for him (Tracy) and also the woman that could not have been more wrong for him, yet that he was obsessed with for TWENTY FIVE YEARS, aka Robin.

Fuck this show.

[hello-nichya-here]

Anyone who's voting Ross instead of Ted has never watched How I Met Your Mother, and for their sake I hope they never do.

Propaganda why Ted Mosby is insufferable:

He’s so selfish, immature, and annoying. Death!

Ted repeatedly chases women who are unattainable. (Stella, etc) and that he is fundamentally incompatible with. (Robin). Especially after Robin finds out she's infertile, it's a big asshole move of him to chase after her knowing that he'll eventully leave for a women that wants to marry and have kids. Ted is pretentions and lacks the moral backbone to go against Barney's bullshit. Ted often chases after women half his age with Barney.

certified Nice Guy syndrome where he's a huge misogynist but acts like he's just a widdle baby....UGH

He tells his kids some really inappropriate things and comes off as annoying even though he is the one narrating the show. Also, he’s only telling the story so his kids will approve of him going after their Aunt Robin

Propaganda why Ross Geller is insufferable:

He blames everyone else for everything despite it often being his fault, so he never improves. Not even a little.

He’s Mental Geller

Many many reasons. I haven’t even watched that much of friends and I have a burning hatred of Ross. There is general stuff such as homophobia and misogyny (at one stage he stops his son playing with a Barbie because it’s a “girls toy��) but also other stuff such as anger issues, narcissism and other toxic behaviour. Why he is consider a quirky funny member of the group and not a dangerous guy who needs to be excommunicated is beyond me. I hate ross

[piperslovebot]

Ted is a psychopath

[legendmarried1606]

This ending is total trash, Ted and Robin do not work as a couple this is established in the series. They aren’t meant for each other they are meant for other people, people they make sense with. Ted was obsessed with Robin, so much so he ignored the person she truly is to live in a fantasy. Robin wasn’t the person for him and he had to grow up and grow out of this toxic infatuation of her. They had nothing in common, wanted different things and the chemistry was never there to actually have a fulfilling relationship. This relationship was not meant to be so they put themselves into bad situations that made no sense to who these characters are. People need to stop saying that this ending was realistic when it wasn’t. It was purely to have Ted have everything he wanted without seeing how toxic and horrible he is. Robin did not love Ted, she liked the idea of him just like he liked the idea of changing her. Robin will always be who she is and Ted doesn’t like that person. She might be older but she is still the same person she always was. Ted and Robin never got along, they were good as friends but not good as a couple because they are really really different and they don’t understand each other the way Robin does with Barney and Ted does with Victoria or Tracy.

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I love the ending of How I Met Your Mother because I feel like it just encapsulates the whole point of the show. Ted didn't sit down and tell his kids about how he met their mother because it was supposed to be a great love story, but because it showed how throughout the years Ted had been able to grow and adapt to all the heartache and scars he accumulated going through his life. And one of the terrible things that happens to him is losing the love of his life to illness, but he still pushes through and finds love and happiness in the darkest of times.

But I didn't like the ending for a really really long time because I felt like the show was trying to suggest that Robin and Ted were the loves of each other's lives and that they were always meant to end up with each other. But I don't think that's true anymore.

Tracy was the love of Ted's life. Tracy was not a placeholder for Robin. Tracy was Ted's purpose in life. But she died, and he deserved to be able to find love again. Sure, Ted got back with Robin in the end, but if Ted had the chance to still be with Tracy, he would've NEVER in a million years picked Robin over her.

Robin's career was the love of her life. Her career was her purpose in life. But once she got older she had accomplished everything she'd ever wanted in life, and that chapter of her life was over. Sure, Robin got back with Ted in the end, but she would NEVER in a million years pick Ted over her career.

Ted and Robin were each other's second best option after they fulfilled their purposes. They didn't end up together because they were soulmates or the love of each other's lives. They ended up together because they had to find happiness and make the best out of the rest of their lives after their purposes were already fulfilled. Sure, they loved each other and maybe always did, but that doesn't take away from Ted's love with Tracy.

The love of Ted's life was the mother of his children, Tracy. That was his greatest love. Him ending up with Robin doesn't take away from that. Ted is just doing what he always does and makes the best out of a bad situation by finding the good. Ted losing Tracy was devastating, but he had to find how to be happy again after she died. And that was by loving Robin.

[the-badger-mole]

Just found your blog and your anti aang tag and i am loving it. I was in my teens when i tried to watch atla but i never could get past the first episodes because of aang. He was so annoying and unsympathetic from the get go. His behaviour was just so jarring after this big narration about the war and the avatar being the only hope. Like i get it, he is still a kid but it is possible to write not annoying kids.

Welcome to the Aang-Salt section of the fandom! Our margaritas are rimmed with extra salt. For me, the issue isn't that he's a kid with selfish tendencies and and an imperfect understanding of the world around him; it's the fact that his worst traits are treated like virtues in the narrative, or just flat out ignored. I cannot stand him, and it is my pleasure to take him down at any provided opportunity.

[brick-a-doodle-do]

Being honest, I'm just empty... but it's bittersweet. I've personally lost a lot in the past year, some of it recently.

But the beautiful thing about life is that, it moves on.

We can make new memories while still holding on to the old. Yes it's sad now but with time, we'll be able to look back at it and smile. It may not be today or tomorrow but sometime.

It kinda reminds me of a quote by Ted Mosby, "You can't cling to the past because no matter how tightly you hold on, it's already gone."

We all knew it would happen and yes we're sad. But we can begin something new and equally as impactful and while it will never be the same...

It doesn't have to be.

And I find that beautiful.

i honestly can't really believe it's fully over? i mean it's easy to wrap my head around, i can tell that the lore is over and cc's will be moving onto their lifelong passions, but the fact that they won't be back on the server is just really weird to me

and it's so bittersweet to see that these people aren't teenagers & young adults anymore and they've found what they really want to do with their life, and it's just so awesome to have been here for the things that made them that way. the thing that gave them a public boost, yk?

i agree with the moving on thing, but it's just really hard that these millions of people are now sitting without fresh content from the media they signed up for. yeah tommy is still playing mc and the usmp, qsmp, etc. etc. are around, but it really won't be the same because the dsmp was the thing that started it. it probably won't blow up in the same way because the dsmp was a chance happening. actually trying for something to do well doesn't have the same effect, if that makes sense.

but anyway yeah it impacted so many people and it was a blast to be a part of for coming up on two years now. i am really happy i didn't take my friends advice when she first started talking about the smp but from an anti perspective. i'm really glad i decided to get into it! tbh i owe it all to ranboo. and tubbo. so even starting out there, it's easy to realize that some things just move on, because the beeduo era has been pretty much over since nov-dec 2021, and it's just. it's gone for a while, but ranboo and tubbo are still thriving, they're good, they've got cool projects going on. so i think the dsmp can easily have the same thing.

anyway i can't wait to point at the dream smp in a few years, after wilbur becomes more mainstream and tommy'll have gone on tour, after genloss is released and all that stuff. it'll be cool to have been like "i remember when [name] was [example]"

[alphawolfice1989]

Robin should have ended up with barney instead of ted

loverink

Robin should have ended up with Barney, or Don. Robin needs to be with someone who won't pressure her into any feminine ideals, admires her independence, and doesn't want kids. I also think these are the two breakups we see Robin the most emotional over.

I will also note here that I think the show failed Robin, in that we are repeatedly shown what Ted and Barney want more often than what Robin wants. And just because she's not comfortable expressing all the emotions, doesn't mean she doesn't have them.

Honestly Don and Barney have a bit in common. Don started out on her show as an unprofessional jerk who undermined her hard work. When he finally got his crap together was when the two of them worked as a couple. At the end, not only did he take the job in Chicago, but he didn't invite her to move with him which is pretty telling, sadly.

We see Robin and Barney as friends first, and although we do see Robin's disdain of his womanizing ways, we also see them genuinely enjoy each other's company. Early on we see them exchange a sort of mutual respect and admiration for each other in a lot of their scenes.

With Ted & Robin they are almost consistently on different pages and have different desires from their relationship. With Barney & Robin, I feel like we see them step into sync as they grow as people and get to know each other.

I feel like we are shown more in the aftermath of B&R vs T&R. Throughout the following seasons we see Barney shooting longing glances at Robin. We learn Robin cried after the breakup and Barney was unaware. Robin, who doesn't like feelings, expresses to Barney how hard it is to see him set up this perfect date when he didn't do that for her. And so he gives her the perfect date - to go on with Don. We see so more vulnerable moments with both Barney and Robin compared to Ted and Robin, imo. Comparatively, for several seasons we see nothing from Ted towards Robin until Victoria returns and voices her opinion onscreen. Only after that do we see Ted's feelings again.

When Ted tells Robin that he loves her, can get past her disinterest and inability to have kids, she eventually that she just doesn't love him. When Barney is in relationships with Nora and Patrice, we see Robin get jealous and emotional. Full on sobbing, drinking under a desk.

In the final season we see Robin talk about the locket and how Ted goes big for her by getting it back. I'm so frustrated by the writers here. Because there are so many times and ways that Barney has gone big for Robin, but it didn't serve the narrative they wanted.

In the context of the show, literally the DAY before the wedding Barney had given Robin a huge Canada themed rehearsal dinner because he knew how much that place and her family meant to her.

The single biggest omission was that Barney stopped Robin from being deported. He is the reason that Robin is still in their day to day lives, it's because he found her a job. Because he loved her.

I don't believe that Ted in the show would have been happy without kids. I think he would have made passive aggressive comments for a long time and the couple would eventually split. I do believe that Barney could be happy without kids.

After their breakup, Ted always felt like her safety pick. He was the guy who always loved her more than she loved him. He wasn't the guy she actually wanted to be with. He wasn't the guy she missed or sent longing glances to.

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