in the season 7 premiere episode "the best man", lily confronts robin about her feelings for barney, and advises her to tell him. she is about to do so when barney pulls her onto the dance floor at a wedding. whatever tension there is between them is broken when barney receives a call from nora. barney isn't sure what to say to nora and asks for robin's help; robin feeds barney the words that she had intended to say to him, which he uses to convince nora to meet him again. in "the stinson missile crisis", robin assaults a woman setting out to destroy barney's relationship with nora and is sent to court-mandated therapy with a therapist named kevin (kal penn). they start dating shortly after. their relationship is tested when robin cheats on him with barney, and she decides to break up with kevin. she changes her mind when kevin tells her how much he cares for her, and they stay together. after kevin proposes to her, robin thinks she is ready to settle down, but he ultimately takes back his proposal when she says that she is unable and unwilling to have children.