We all remember what happened: Ted (Josh Radnor) met the mother (Cristin Milioti), they got married, they had kids, she got sick and died. After an all-season wedding, Robin (Cobie Smulders) and Barney split up and she gets with Ted in the end.

"I would have loved for them to end up together, but it's not in Barney's DNA to be together with her or the same person, so he leaves her and ends up being crazy and wanting to be even more insane and shag more people," Harris says.

Barney ends up having a one-night stand that results in the true love of his life: his daughter. "That is the one woman he commits his life to," Harris says. "I really valued what that meant for Barney Stinson. I just don't think there's an adult female that will tame him, and yet a great conclusion to his journey that a woman—a female—ends up taming him and taking his heart."

Now we know this may not ease all the anguish How I Met Your Mother's finale created inside of you, but it's a start, right.

Inside the Actors Studio with Neil Patrick Harris airs Thursday, Feb. 12 at 8 p.m. on Bravo.

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