Then he finds true love in Alicia Masters, she accepts him for who he is, they frolic in a field of daisies and sunshine, and all is great in his life!
But then we pull away from a closeup of his face to see this was all a figment of his imagination, as he's locked in a mental institution, drooling in the corner of a padded cell, because his life as a rock monster was a nightmare that he couldn't cope with. The camera pans to a wrinkled newspaper on the floor with the headline "3 of the Fantastic Four die in a tragic car accident, on the day of the marriage of Sue Storm and Reed Richards. The Thing charged with involuntary manslaughter." The end.