I’m glad you mentioned that. It bothered me that after all these years of us seeing Ted as a really good guy - searching for and yearning for love, he finally meets his soul mate and then marrying her is no longer important. He was all about honor before, then brings two children into the world with a woman he loves and marriage isn’t part of that equation? Then, after we think Barney has finally become a stand up guy, he fathers a child with a women who is only a number to him, yet the child is the love of his life. We know how often sperm donors get to see a child when they have no connection to the mother. I understand people have childen when they aren’t married - not every relationship works - but they spent all that building up Ted as “not that guy” and he turns out to be exactly “that guy”
The mother actually said “we’ll have to move up the wedding” so she could fit into the dress. I would have thought they, you know, did that. I thought it odd to be mentioned down the road that they never got hitched.
I honestly thought that Barney’s “perfect month” was going to be him going 0 for 31. That would have been realistic.
So not only is telling his kids this long rambling story which is mostly about his unhealthy obsession with that emotionally unavailbale woman, Robin, but then he never even married his baby momma. Ted is a terrible person.