I guess the future timeline in All Good Things in which they were married didn't really happen.
I think Beverly Crusher would be a good match for him. She's intelligent in her own right. She's also mature and dedicated to her profession, so she'd be able to understand his sense of duty and responsibility. I think there was a lot of mutual respect there.
Don't forget though, in the future timeline in All Good Things they were divorced, so I guess some kind of difficulty came up.
Picard was the one who ordered Jack Crusher on the away mission on which he died, and I think he always carried some guilt about that. That was probably why he took an interest in Wesley. I think Picard took the consequences of his command decisions very seriously, which made him a more human character.
little star :star: