I really did love this show until the last few seasons, I feel like the writers just used the mother as a plot device to keep everyone running in and interested, and there are many things to prove my point. Plus in the end him telling his kids how he met their mother was really all a big waste because it was just him asking his kids for permission to date their "aunt" Robin. This had one of the most horribly stupid endings of All TIME, plus I also feel they used the mother for things that would help get Robin with Ted, like once Robin found out she couldn't have children (which at first she dirnt want them and of course I'm not blaming her for not being able to have them) but once she found this out of course she didn't be with Ted who wanted children and marriage two things she didn't want, but oh then we have the mother she gives him children then dies offscreen after we see her like twice the whole show and Robin is all for marriage now because she was married to Barney who was supposedly the "wrong guy" which he wasn't they were OTP together. So now the wife is out of the way and he has children and he's more mature and so is she so now they can get together? Like so fucking stupid I mean even the whole season on Robin and Barney's wedding and then next epiosde after tat oh their divorce and it's just passed over like it meant nothing and Barney is suppose to make due because all of a sudden one of the chicks he was with previous had a child for him I mean come on the writing towards the end was horribly sloppy and its like they just had a perfect puzzle almost completely built and then decided to destroy it once it had one piece left. I LOVED this show tuned in for every epiosde snf then the end literally just ruined the whole show for me because they used the mother as a plot device, a baby maker and a way to help Ted grow better for Robin and that is so fucked up in so many ways