You know,,, Ted's deepest desire is to settle down and start a family, but if we're being honest, that man would suck as a father and husband
I don't think getting married would immediately fix him, even if it was with someone he deeply cared about, like Charlotte. We can see how he isn't the nicest to his much younger brother, and considering how much he changed when Jenny "left", he definitely picked on kid Pete
Ted's whole character is being an asshole who never gets what he wants, he is meant to lose at everything and be extremely lonely. If he were to get what he wants in life, it would't take long for that thing to leave him, as we've seen in canon
I guess that's why I find happy ending AUs with him kinda funny, ngl. Do what you want of course, but that man is destined to be miserable and that's why I love him 🐐
Annoyingly deep character /pos