How I Met Your Mother is a sitcom filled with all kinds of drama – miniscule to major – but one big fight that’s stayed a topic of conversation even all of these years later is the blowup between Lily Aldrin and Ted Mosby. It’s not necessarily the most dramatic or consequential fight of the show but it is surprisingly important. Taking a second look at their battle after some time allows us to see it in a new light, and gives us insight into the deeper, more important layer to their problem. (And this also gives us some pretty useful pointers for our own lives, too!) So what’s the truth about Lily and Ted’s big fight?

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