Fight! Fight! Fight!

It's been awhile since I've been keeping up with HIMYM, but now I am back. Since the beginning of the season, a lot of long time followers and myself have been very disappointed with the new season so far... the Barney and Robin relationship is weird and somewhat messing up the dynamics of the show... Jason Segel isn't really "hot" to me anymore, Barney's weird, Robin's weird...and I literally just now realized that we are missing some Ted action. The show is called "How I Met Your Mother". SO, the show is supposed to be centered around Ted and his quest for love; his search for "the mother". But recently, it's been focused more on Barney and Robin. And sometimes Marshall and Lily. Anyway...

This week's episode actually wasn't that bad. And I love how two of my communication teachers have used this episode as part of their lectures this week. In Relational Communication, we learn that every couple has conflicts. And conflicts do not equal a bad relationship. It is how you learn to handle the conflicts that will either make or break your relationship. In this episode, Marshall and Lily start to fight more because of the division of labor in the household (we talked about this in our Conflicts and Negotiations class), while Barney and Robin say their relationship is perfect because they don't fight and they have nicknames for each other. But in reality, Barney and Robin are just deal with their conflicts the wrong way: Barney deals with it by walking out. Robin deals with it by taking off her clothes. But once they went on a ski trip and were on the ski lifts, there was no way for them to escape the fight...

For Marshall and Lily, this is how their situation went:



I'm glad this one made me laugh... but the writers need to step up their game... or else I will be spending whatever free time I have, from now on, catching up on The Office. :)