<P> Barney Stinson is one of five main characters on How I Met Your Mother . He is a manipulative , oversexed businessman in his thirties who always wears a suit , likes women with `` daddy issues '' and is frequently willing to offer his ( sometimes hypocritical ) opinion . Throughout the earlier seasons , Barney is a huge womanizer , and has been described as a `` high - functioning sociopath '' by his best friend , Ted Mosby ( Josh Radnor ) . Barney has a plethora of strategies and rules designed to meet women , sleep with them , and discard them . Through several seasons of the show , four ( 4 ) of the main characters are couples , as Ted began dating Robin Scherbatsky ( Cobie Smulders ) and Ted 's roommate Marshall Eriksen ( Jason Segel ) becomes engaged and later married to Lily Aldrin ( Alyson Hannigan ) . This leaves Barney the only single character , and , according to Harris , Barney is `` resentful '' that the other characters have paired up . Later on , in season 5 , he dates Robin . They end up breaking up not long after , once they both realize they are making one another miserable . </P>
<P> Barney Stinson is one of five main characters on How I Met Your Mother . He is a manipulative , oversexed businessman in his thirties who always wears a suit , likes women with `` daddy issues '' and is frequently willing to offer his ( sometimes hypocritical ) opinion . Throughout the earlier seasons , Barney is a huge womanizer , and has been described as a `` high - functioning sociopath '' by his best friend , Ted Mosby ( Josh Radnor ) . Barney has a plethora of strategies and rules designed to meet women , sleep with them , and discard them . Through several seasons of the show , four ( 4 ) of the main characters are couples , as Ted began dating Robin Scherbatsky ( Cobie Smulders ) and Ted 's roommate Marshall Eriksen ( Jason Segel ) becomes engaged and later married to Lily Aldrin ( Alyson Hannigan ) . This leaves Barney the only single character , and , according to Harris , Barney is `` resentful '' that the other characters have paired up . Later on , in season 5 , he dates Robin . They end up breaking up not long after , once they both realize they are making one another miserable . </P>
when do barney and robin get together again
when do barney and robin get together again
season 5
season 5