If Love Is the Game, Is Marriage Winning or Losing?

Everyone talks about not hating the player but hating the game. But, how do you actually win the game of love? I try to figure it out.

“You’ve had sex once. How was it?”

This is what Ted throws in Marshall’s face during a conversation about who has the most game, back in season three of How I Met Your Mother—you know, when the show was still good and Ted wasn’t yet infuriating. Because Marshall was married, and had actually lost his virginity to Lily, his now-wife (albeit years earlier), he was deemed irrelevant.

This conversation was played for laughs, as most things in the show were, but it raises a valid question that I think remains unanswered.

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