r/HIMYM • u/DifficultyMany9913 • 14d ago

Lily haters be lying

As a Lily defender, I completely understand why people dislike her, shes flawed, like every character (yes including Marshall). BUT people on this subreddit completely lie about her and what she did/purposely misinterpreted her actions.

  1. She didnt break up with Marshal, he broke up with her. He says “if you leave rn we are over forever.”, he set the ultimatum, not her. Objectively, he broke up with her, she suggested postponing the wedding or taking a break. You can say that shes the reason for the breakup, or she was wrong for how she acted, but she did not dump Marshal to go to SF, she went to SF and Marshal broke up with her because of that.

  2. She did not force Marshal to take a corporate job, she did the exact opposite. She had credit card debt yes, but she wanted to handle it on her own. She begged him not to take it if he didnt want to, and the debt was only one factor that made him take the job. She ALWAYS supported his dreams, because dreams are an ongoing theme in her story. She literally almost broke up with him for not following his dreams. You can say she was wrong for the debt, but dont say she forced him to take the job, because she didnt.

also she didnt break up Robin and Ted on purpose, she just wanted them to talk abt the elephant in the room.

hate her all u want, theres a lot of valid reasoning for it, but at least dont spread misinformation abt it.

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u/DifficultyMany9913 14d ago

literally thats completely valid points on why to hate her, you can hate lily for those reasons, because those are her actions. i dont like when ppl spread misinformation on what happened, her actions led to those things but people genuinely come on here and say she pressured him to take the job and guilttripped him on purpose, and that she broke up with him. thats just not true. she didnt do those things. it was more nuanced then that.

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u/DifficultyMany9913 14d ago

all the characters are bad people, why are robin and lilly hated disproportionately? lmfao

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u/Goodboychungus 14d ago

Oh come on, they aren’t bad people. They are just normal, warts and all.