Ted And Robin Scherbatsky's How I Met Your Mother

In the show How I Met Your Mother, the main character: Ted Mosby, and his best friend Robin Scherbatsky have intercourse on final episode of season 1. The relationship began as a simplistic friendship, which soon after having intercourse lead to a more complex dynamic between the two friends. Ted and Robin chose not to address this occurrence, but rather ignore it and ‘put it on the back burner’. Looking to the Relational Dialectics Theory one finds that this occurrence is a prime example of a public and private dialectic. Public and private dialectic is defined by West & Turner as “…the tension between the two domains: a private relationship and public life” (West & Turner, 206). In relation to Ted and Robin this dialectic advocates the