How I Met Your Mother 10 Major Relationships Ranked Least To Most Successful

How I Met Your Mother: 10 Major Relationships, Ranked Least To Most Successful

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How I Met Your Mother is all about the relationships – but which couples are endgame, and which are an example of what not to do?

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How I Met Your Mother 10 Major Relationships Ranked Least To Most Successful

How I Met Your Mother is all about relationships – it’s right there in the title! From their college days through their twenties and into old age, this sitcom is about meeting, dating, and breaking up. Over the nine seasons of the show, Ted, Robin, Barney, and Lily even managed to date each other in multiple configurations, as well as having short and long-term romances, flings, engagements, and marriages.

However, of all the major relationships, which were successful, relationship goals level romances… and served as a good example of how not to date? Based on happiness, longevity, and healthy love and support, these are the best – and the worst – of the show. (Not including one night stands, two night stands, or other short or casual flings.)

10 Least Successful: Ted & Karen

How I Met Your Mother 10 Major Relationships Ranked Least To Most Successful

Karen appears mostly in flashbacks, but she does have a brief appearance as Ted’s girlfriend during the main timeline of the show as well. She’s the woman that Ted just can’t seem to say no to, and he continually dates her, gets his heart broken, and then takes her back – from his teens right through to season four. This is despite the fact that Karen is essentially just a terrible person: she’s pretentious, rude, snobby, and cheats on all of her partners (including Ted). None of their scenes seem healthy, balanced, or loving, and they broke up multiple times – making them the least successful relationship on the show.

9 Ted & Stella

How I Met Your Mother 10 Major Relationships Ranked Least To Most Successful

Ted just does not have luck with women – which is a huge part of the show, of course! But Ted’s time with Stella was the model of what a relationship shouldn’t be. It starts with her telling him outright that she had no time, didn’t want a relationship, and had no interest in changing her life – until he hounded her into doing so. They then disagreed on friends, on where to live, on how to approach a shared life, and on their wedding. In the end, Stella leaves him at the altar for her ex – ouch.

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8 Ted & Zooey

How I Met Your Mother 10 Major Relationships Ranked Least To Most Successful

Ted and Zoey manage to have a slightly better relationship than many of his – but it doesn’t exactly start well. Ted meets Zoey when she is protesting a building he is designing, and not only is she actively against his dream, she is married, and a socialite that likes to take up causes to stop herself getting bored.

Their relationship manages to have more happy moments than some of his, but the two are constantly arguing – hardly relationship goals. In the end, Ted has to choose between Zooey and his work, and thankfully, he chooses his dream project and career.

7 Ted & Victoria

How I Met Your Mother 10 Major Relationships Ranked Least To Most Successful

Ted and Victoria have the ultimate meet-cute, when they end up at a wedding together and have a perfect night. Overall, their relationship is actually one that could have worked out – they are compatible, both romantics, and Victoria gets along with the gang… but the timing just never worked out. First, Victoria had to take a job in Germany, and they couldn’t handle the long-distance. Then, Victoria couldn’t cope with Ted’s history with Robin, and Ted couldn’t let her go. Had Victoria stayed in New York in the first place, this may have been a much shorter show.

6 Barney & Nora

How I Met Your Mother 10 Major Relationships Ranked Least To Most Successful

Barney starts out on the show as a total womanizer – he’s constantly in search of his next one night stand, and shudders at the idea of commitment. Over time, though, he ends up in a few truly special relationships, including one with Nora. Nora and Barney weren’t truly terrible together, and actually did pretty well for a while. Barney serenaded her at work, met her parents, made her laugh, and she challenged him. But, in the end, Barney just couldn’t stop wanting Robin, and this combined with his fear of commitment got in the way. Nora also often seemed like a learning experience for Barney – someone to help him be a better man, while not getting a lot out of the relationship herself.

5 Robin & Kevin

How I Met Your Mother 10 Major Relationships Ranked Least To Most Successful

When Robin starts going to therapy, she would never have guessed that she would fall for her therapist (because that’s seriously problematic), but that’s what happened. She and Kevin dated for a while, and had a surprisingly healthy relationship. Kevin understood and supported Robin, and they made each other happy. There’s was a relationship that could have gone the distance, if not for the fact that Kevin wanted kids, and Robin didn’t.

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4 Barney & Quinn

How I Met Your Mother 10 Major Relationships Ranked Least To Most Successful

Barney met Quinn at a strip club, and the two were a surprisingly fantastic match. They had the same penchant for plays and pranks, the same approach to sexuality, the same sense of humor, and the same drive. Quinn was kind and loving, but a strong woman who had no interest in doing what Barney wanted – and it’s clear that Barney appreciates strong independent women.

In fact, these two nearly got married, but after a long argument about pre-nups, it became clear that while they loved each other and worked well together, they just didn’t trust each other enough to get married.

3 Robin & Barney

How I Met Your Mother 10 Major Relationships Ranked Least To Most Successful

Now we’re into the big guns, with one of the three major endgame couples of the show. Robin and Barney had an on-again-off-again relationship, but this actually worked in their favor. They were able to stay friends post-breakup (which is impressive in and of itself), and they were able to grow in between their relationships with each other. At the end of the day, they actually got married, and stayed that way for quite a while… until the flash-forward showed that they broke it off in the end.

2 Marshall & Lily

How I Met Your Mother 10 Major Relationships Ranked Least To Most Successful

Marshall and Lily are usually hailed as the most successful relationship of the show, and it’s easy to see why. They have been together since college, have only slept with each other, are great co-parents, support each other’s dreams, and have a marriage that lasts into old age. They don’t quite get the top spot, though, because they definitely had some rough patches. Lily called off their first wedding to go be an artist in San Fransisco, and it was one of the most heartbreaking moments on the show. They have their ups and downs, but they are still relationship goals.

1 Most Successful: Ted & Tracy

The titular mother’s relationship with Ted is one of the only ones in the show that never seems to have issues – although this is likely because we barely get to see them together. Almost all of the information fans have about this pair comes from Ted’s monologues, which are (understandably) a bit rose-tinted. However, it’s worth noting that they met, started dating, got married, had two kids, and would have stayed together forever if it wasn’t for her untimely death. And isn’t that the goal?

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