Peeta

(Spoilers for the Hunger Games trilogy)
I saw a photo that someone made once about how they're a Gale fan. All of their reasons were very credible. It was mainly about how Gale didn't obsess over her he had a life outside of Katniss and he was fighting in the war and rebelling rather than spending his entire existence thinking about her. And then their last reason was that they are almost the exact same person, they are so similar I guess they thought it would work. I'm probably the most opinionated and biased person in the world, but......
Well, as far as Gale and Katniss being like each other, that can work for some people. But as far as Katniss and Gale goes, I don't think it would have worked out for them. They think about the same things but they fight about those things constantly, and they are both so bitter and angry about the world (Not for no reason, but for very good reason) that not much good would come from that relationship. Gale gets excited about rebelling and things so he's always saying "Let's go rebel right now let's go raid the Capitol let's go show them they don't own us" without really thinking it through. And then Katniss doesn't think it through either, so she backs him up right away and I feel like if they ended up together that wouldn't have really worked out, something really bad could come of that. Just things like that are good for being best friends, but not being married. Peeta and Katniss were just different enough to make it work, they balance each other out, and they are good at calming each other down.
And then about how Gale had a life outside of Katniss. And now is the time where I direct this to Peeta  again because you know we all thought of him when they said that because he really didn't. This photo I saw mentioned that Gale would tell Katniss when he thought that something she thought was stupid or wrong or a bad idea. Stuff like that. Well I'm going to defend Toast on both of these points. Well, how could Peeta have a life outside of Katniss? Baking and painting is his life outside of Katniss. That's great, but that's not going to do a ton for you. Peeta's family is running the bakery in town, so he doesn't need to make money for them and feed them like Gale does, because that is a good portion of Gale's life outside of Katniss. Not to mention Peeta's family doesn't really like him, at least that's what I'm getting out of that, so he wouldn't have them in his life almost at all. As the far as the rebellion goes, Gale is really involved in that. Well, in the first book Peeta didn't really know about that, how could he? And in the second book Peeta had an idea of it but it wasn't safe for anyone and especially him and Katniss and also the people close to them to do anything about it. Then in the third book, he was kind of working for the Capitol. That situation was complicated. But the one time then that he tried to help the rebels, the Capitol hurt him and hijacked him, so it didn't really work out for him. But he helped with the rebellion as much as he could after that with a hijacked mind. Then there's the matter of Gale not putting up with Katniss's ideas that he didn't agree with. But Peeta didn't always put up with Katniss either. The biggest thing I remember is in District Eleven when Peeta got mad at Katniss and Haymitch for not telling him about the uprisings that had been going on. And in Catching Fire when the Peacekeepers stop by Katniss's house while all the residents of the District Twelve Victor's Village are also there for dinner, and Peeta was willing to tease Katniss with Prim and Haymitch. Just stuff like that. Or in The Hunger Games when Peeta is explaining that he doesn't want to die as someone else in the arena, and Katniss doesn't understand him, and he kind of says something relatively harsh to her. It didn't happen very often, but shouldn't couples generally agree and support and defend each other?
So as valid as those points are, I think that still there are reasons that Katniss ended up with who she did.