The Mother

Love Interest
Full Name	Unknown
Alias	The Mother, Mrs. Mosby, Ted's wife, Girl With the Yellow Umbrella
Origin	How I Met Your Mother
Occupation	Ecomonics student, Bass player
Powers/Skills	Unknown
Hobby	Making breakfast foods sing show tunes, painting pictures of robots playing sports, and playing bass guitar
Goals	Unknown
Type of Love Interest	Soulmate

The Mother, as she is known to the fans, is Ted Mosby's one true love in How I Met Your Mother.

Biography

Basic Information

Most information about the Mother is second-hand, due to the fact that Ted is narrating from the future. From what he's told his kids (and the audience) the Mother was an economics student who plays bass guitar and owns a yellow umbrella which she lost for about a year before Ted inadvertently returned it to her. She apparently has a magnetic personality, being able enchant her roommate's boyfriends and getting free desserts just by befriending waitstaff. Her favourite flowers are lilacs, the very flower that Ted had on him when they first met. Despite being the titular character, the Mother remains unseen until the Season 8 finale.

The very first sighting of the Mother

In the Past

Ted's first encounter with the Mother was at a nightclub on St. Patrick's Day in 2008. Ted didn't see her as he was drunk that night, but the next morning he found her yellow umbrella and took it home as it had started to rain.

A year later, Ted became a professor at the university the Mother was attending. Ted thought he was teaching a first-year architecture class but had to be told by the room's late-arriving professor that this was the third-year economics class and Ted had been making a fool of himself that whole time. The Mother was one of the students Ted was lecturing.

Later on, Ted begins dating the Mother's roommate Cindy. When Cindy invites Ted up to their apartment, Ted finds various things lying around that tell him he's with his one true love. Cindy tells Ted that they all belong to her roommate. Cindy had always felt insecure about how her roommate was able to steal her boyfriends from her and realises Ted is no better. They break up, but Ted winds up leaving the yellow umbrella at their apartment.

In 2013, Ted runs into Cindy, who has since gotten over her jealousy of the Mother. Ted has been left in charge of finding a band for Barney and Robin's impending wedding. Cindy recommends her roomate's band. Ted will notice the Mother at the reception, but won't approach her for an as yet unknown reason. After the wedding, while Ted is waiting at the train station, he'll run into the Mother and they'll fall in love.

In the Future

Ted and the Mother

A year after the wedding, Ted and the Mother will come back to the inn where the wedding was held and Ted will tell her how he knew even before meeting her that something great was coming.

Two years later, Ted and the Mother return yet again and Ted proposes to her at the nearby lighthouse. In the same year, the Mother gives birth to Ted's daughter.

Romances

Ted Mosby

The Mother is the love of Ted's life. After a series of increasingly dysfunctional relationships, Ted would meet her and never look back. The Mother and Ted are an ideal match in every sense. She is also the only woman that can make Ted give up on his hopeless pursuit of Robin. Despite all the rough patches that Ted goes through after meeting Robin, he appreciates every one of them as they all led him to the Mother. The Mother was also the first woman Ted had confessed his love to in over a year, the last being Robin. According to Ted, he would give up smoking early on in their relationship, further showing her positive influence on him.

Louis

Louis was the Mother's boyfriend shortly before Barney's and Robin's wedding. Not much is known about their relationship, but they were living together for a while so they must have been close.

Trivia

• The colour yellow is a recurring element with the Mother. Her umbrella, apartment and most of her possessions are all yellow.