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[How I Met Your Mother] When Ted is telling his kids stories, is he actually going through them in excruciating detail?

If he is, why would he include every woman that he banged in his twenties and thirties?
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He actually stops himself when he tells the story about the threesome. So yeah, much more detail than needed.

...anyways, the story is about how he met their mother. From his perspective, the way he's telling the story, all of his romantic relationships were part of an epic arc leading up to that one true love. It's the story of how he was young and idealistic, lost that idealism piece by piece, became disillusioned from seeing his friends' relationships decay, and then re-discovered love all over again.