Some of his most significant and prominent flaws never go away or take a long time to do so. Ted is pretty unlucky in love for a long, long time in How I Met Your Mother , in fact, there were no real relationships that ended on great terms before he met Tracy except maybe Robin. However, Ted is to blame for a lot of this. He got into and stayed in relationships that were toxic, that did not work, or that he did not even want.
Jeanette was insane, Zoey and Ted did not work, nor did he and Robin, and Karen was just the worst, and he knew it, but refused to believe it. This trend continued right until he met Tracy. Ted displays a few less than desirable qualities consistently throughout the nine seasons of How I Met Your Mother , one of which is selfishness.
He does, of course, have his selfless moments, but stuff like distracting Marshall from work, how he sometimes acted as a third wheel for Marshall and Lily, making Robin get rid of her dogs, and various other examples point to selfishness. Ted did not only have bad luck in romance but, a lot of the time, he had terrible luck in life. But, sympathy for Ted was hurt a lot due to his victim complex.
He constantly complained about the lack of women, or his lack of luck in relationships, or the quality of relationships he gets in. He makes a lot of things seem unfair in terms of how his life is not progressing but does not garner much sympathy.
Mounting evidence suggests that deep down Ted is much more like Barney than his other best friend, honest, devoted monogamist Marshall. Barney himself sees this resemblance between him and Ted. And we actually see Ted blame Barney for his own misdeeds as if on some level he does think of this friend as an id-like inner presence instigating his worst behaviors.
At points, the show even suggests that Barney is secretly a nicer guy than Ted. Just consider how each of them reacts when Lily leaves Marshall and goes to San Francisco.
Barney, on the other hand, seeing all of the pain that Marshall is in, takes constructive action: he goes on a secret mission to find Lily and beg her to go back to New York. And to top it off, he makes sure that no one knows about his kind act.
Ted is the kind of friend who guilts his besties into throwing parties three nights in a row so he can potentially seduce a girl, not caring that Marshall has an important law school paper to write.
Ted, not so much. Because how can anything he does ever be that bad if his intentions are so good? This mindset is also why Ted is miserable for almost the entire nine-season run of the show: real life will never match the fantasies of romantic grandeur that he has constructed in his head. This is perfectly exemplified by his obsession with winning a second chance with Natalie, the girl he dumped on her birthday.
I am back! Absolutely not! Robin and Ted do get together but ultimately break up over wanting different things: Robin wants to focus on her career, and Ted wants a family and kids. However, Ted's non-consensual behavior isn't limited to Robin; he doesn't change his ways after splitting up with her.
His actions are frequently framed as romantic — including the time when he pressures Dr. Stella Zinman, the dermatologist who removes his lower-back tattoo, into dating him They enter a relationship that was basically doomed from the start, and though they end up engaged , Stella leaves Ted at the altar before making a huge mistake by going through with marrying him.
Beyond his aggressive courting — which is summed up by his declaration as he's still pursuing Robin right before her wedding to his best friend, "When you love someone, you don't stop. Ted dates lots of women throughout the show, and he treats them terribly — from the time he breaks up with a girl on two different birthdays to the time he cheats on his long-distance girlfriend with Robin to the night he goes on a blind date with a girl he's already dated but forgot about.
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