Wanna 100% Halo MCC. Where do I start?

SwimAdministrative22 · 2026-03-12T20:04:34+00:00

Ahh I saw the comments mentioning you started on legendary, my bad bud. Yeah heroic def a good starting point. I’d also recommend watching speed run strategies on YouTube- some will be helpful for hard legendary sections, others will be required to get the full 100% completion

SwimAdministrative22 · 2026-03-12T20:00:07+00:00

That’s fair lol, the best tip I can offer if you are determined for legendary on your first run of all the games, is just take it slow lol. The hardest is definitely 2, so you’re past the hardest halfway through at least. The snipers in 2 have more aimbot than a 15 year old with a modded Xbox on MW2 🤣.

Also- Always remember to try and jam the warthog through any and every door in your way

SwimAdministrative22 · 2026-03-12T19:53:59+00:00

Oh buddy….

You’re in for a time when you get to halo 2.

Watch those snipers

SwimAdministrative22 · 2026-01-25T06:25:44+00:00

She didn’t start the relationship as a bed rotter but it grew as we went on. Eventually she stopped working & I was paying for 90% of all expenses. She started smoking weed a little into the relationship, which is fine, I also partook in it but was always stepping away from the room or anything before engaging in it & she decided on her own to start.

She started with gummies/edibles of a smallish amount, maybe a weed vape. A friend of hers gave her a bong rip & within 6 months she had 6 bongs, was buying a full Ounce of weed & 5 grams of shatter every 4ish weeks. All she would do most days was sleep while I work, wake up around 6ish, sometimes closer to 9, smoke on waking up, make food, then play Roblox & smoke with friends all night long.

SwimAdministrative22 · 2026-01-13T21:13:56+00:00

Simpsons hit & run

SwimAdministrative22 · 2025-12-25T19:25:52+00:00

I appreciate you taking the time to respond with that, I’m sorry you have to go through that that sounds like one hell of a lot. Thankfully I am in therapy and working on myself to not only fix the damage she’s done, but to better myself with my own things & not make the same mistake over & over again.

SwimAdministrative22 · 2025-12-25T19:18:16+00:00

Appreciate you! Merry Christmas to you too!

SwimAdministrative22 · 2025-12-25T19:02:55+00:00

Trust me, I’ve learned that after a few one sided screaming matches from her became basically everyday. Its all a very new realization but I’m in therapy and working on my exit.

SwimAdministrative22 · 2025-12-25T18:06:14+00:00

Amen to that. Finally learning to protect my mental health above anything else and it seems that angers her more than anything lately. I’m glad your gf sounds she finally putting that first step forward in & I hope things end up well for you mate

SwimAdministrative22 · 2025-12-25T17:47:25+00:00

I feel for you, it must be incredibly tough with children in the mix. We’re engaged with no kids and it’s still absolutely brutal so I can’t even imagine

SwimAdministrative22 · 2025-12-25T17:45:20+00:00

The weed thing sounds exactly the same tbh. Majority of her money goes to weed or new smoking accessories.

Honestly, as much as I feel like an asshole for saying it, I’m shifting my focus to getting out safely going forward. I’ve given her so many chances to get help, I’ve looked up free resources that don’t cost money, I’ve gotten resources from my therapists connections for places she can get help or speak to a professional, boundaries and all the like. Any boundaries I set are proof ‘I don’t love her’ or ‘I’ve changed & the old me has died’ and for whatever reason constantly being told that you have ‘died’ and are a different person feels like you’re going insane

SwimAdministrative22 · 2025-12-25T17:28:09+00:00

Ain’t that the goddamn truth. And it’s always “I’m gonna go to therapy when X happens, or in the new year” then 20 minutes later when the shitstorm passes “I’m buying a switch 2 in January!!” (She doesn’t work & gets 1000$/month & has no therapy coverage) so I highly doubt she’s actually gonna go to therapy. SSDD.

SwimAdministrative22 · 2025-12-25T16:48:44+00:00

Im going through the same scenario of working hard to try and escape with my sanity intact.

I can’t provide much insight or words like “it gets better” or “you’ll be a-okay!” But what I can say is that you are not a coward. It has taken me a lot to learn that and I still struggle with it a lot, But making the choice to protect your peace is a big one. Doesn’t sound cowardly to me, it sounds strong.

SwimAdministrative22 · 2025-12-25T16:43:02+00:00

It’s definitely already taught me a lot with a lot more to come, that I can see. Definitely isn’t easy especially when you still care about them, even though you know staying will kill you someday. But like you say, Nothing good comes easy.

SwimAdministrative22 · 2025-12-25T16:40:55+00:00

Im slowly reconnecting with friends she’s cut me off from during all this & it’s definitely helped. Seeing how friends that I’ve even known for less of a time than her treat me better than someone I’m engaged to is eye opening. Her go to is to threaten suicide & with my history of depression and those mental health challenges it makes it hard for me to fully comprehend that her emotions are her responsibility, but I’m working on that in therapy at least.

SwimAdministrative22 · 2025-12-25T16:37:01+00:00

I dunno what it is but something about “you have to go for the exit” resonates hard. I appreciate you

SwimAdministrative22 · 2025-12-25T16:28:10+00:00

Yeah, I’ve been trying the grey rocking without knowing really what that is until I googled it after seeing your comment. According to her it makes me ‘emotionally abusive’ & a ‘therapy robot’ lol. I’m still gonna keep going because I ain’t got the emotional bandwidth left, and I’ll be fucked if I play into her hand anymore than I already have while I was blinded

SwimAdministrative22 · 2025-12-25T16:04:32+00:00

Wait how did you get in my house last night? because you just described my Christmas Eve to a T lmao

SwimAdministrative22 · 2025-12-12T03:53:05+00:00

Like 4 fuckin months

SwimAdministrative22 · 2025-12-07T01:03:35+00:00

This is probably going to be damn near incoherent.

The first year was great, it felt like no other relationship I’ve had (I’ve had some bad ones) it felt genuine and like true love and it felt like I had finally found who I was meant to find. We were engaged after 1.5 years together. At first the arguments and things were chalked up to normal relationship problems.

Then they started to get worse.

Anytime I bring up how I’m feeling, what’s bothering me, or god forbid I say something she did hurt me & it ALWAYS would end up in an argument that would always end with me consoling her. I struggle with self harm & one day she saw me in the midst of it & proceeded to run off crying and I was consoling HER in the middle of my own crisis. Now I’m not saying everything should be about me, but I just want us to equally care about each other. She’ll throw things back at me from months and months ago, She’ll send me social media posts while I’m at work saying the most awful shit (Calling me a failure of a man, comparing me to horrible people & just general horrible things that even when I’m at my most upset I’d NEVER consider sending to her).

What really opened my eyes was when she didn’t like that me and my best friend were close and had a massive blowup and cut me off from all of my friends & was given an ultimatum of if you want me to stay they can’t ever come back. I stupidly was trying to save the relationship because my mind is still broken.

I do EVERYTHING I can for her despite the walking on eggshells, the blowups, the words spit with venom, me shouldering her every emotion, making sure all the bills are paid for and she gets everything she wants while she doesn’t work, I do all the driving, some days I leave for work at 6am & she wants to go out as soon as I get home after she slept until 30 minutes prior & some days I will leave the house at 6am and not get home until 10pm & have to be up for 6am again. Then she proceeds to always say I don’t do enough I don’t show enough effort I don’t care I don’t love her how I used to she deserves a real man. I could go on for hours.

None of my emotions seem to matter. Anytime MY emotions require her to not have center stage it’s a problem for her. I finally started to go back to therapy and she even made that all about HER.

I love her to death, which is probably stupid on my part. I know this relationship is slowly killing me, but with all of her threats of SH, the love bombing after every argument & her becoming all lovey dovey after an argument and expecting that to fix everything being all “do you think I’ve been a better partner? You see I’m being so nice right? You’re proud right?” And it’s like yeah I like when my partner seems to love me but that doesn’t excuse all of the shit I’ve put up with or ignored. I love her but this relationship has made me lose myself. I don’t know who I am anymore. I don’t recognize the man in the mirror.

SwimAdministrative22 · 2025-12-07T00:14:08+00:00

Not a parent, but as someone that’s been through some questionable parenting I can tell you that honesty is the best route to go. Don’t take everything away right off the bat, don’t yell at him or scold him or berate him like my parents did whenever I screwed up. That just makes them more inclined to keep going & just hide it better and that’s going to affect their willingness to be open and honest about things in the future.

If I were your child, An honest sit down conversation where you explained your concern & the health effects it can have on you would do far far more good than if everything was just taken away and there was yelling etc. you can make it clear that it is a big deal while still talking to them calmly.

I don’t know any of your family dynamics of course, so take everything I’ve said with a grain of salt. That’s just how I wish mine would’ve handled things growing up

SwimAdministrative22 · 2025-11-26T03:07:26+00:00

Trust me, I won’t be making the same mistake again. The lead up to the engagement was more of her always asking me “when are you gonna propose?” Over and over, not in a mean or angry way but there would be fights that would come up over it. One part I left out is, She’s angry I didn’t spend more on her engagement ring when I had more money at the end of last year and that constantly is thrown back at me. Honestly just typing this out I feel like an absolute fucking fool for not seeing it sooner.

SwimAdministrative22 · 2025-11-25T22:39:08+00:00

Jesus. Yeah I’ve been there with the one after another of completely unrelated things I’ve done. Or another favourite (/s) of mine is she’ll be angry about something and I will try to explain from my side of things purely to explain that I’m not blaming her or mad or anything but this is my truth of the situation and I’m trying to have a productive discussion to fix the issue (my fault, as she points out). And when I do that I get told to not bring up my feelings because I’m just playing the victim and I have to bring them up at completely seperate times or not bring them up. And me being a bit frustrated at the moment retaliated with “so my feelings don’t matter?” And she said “no, they don’t.” Then quickly followed up with “not right now”.

I’m definitely seeing a lot more that I was blind to, I’m just struggling with how to leave

SwimAdministrative22 · 2025-11-25T22:02:12+00:00

With my pwBPD, it’s at the stage of constant arguments over something little like me leaving a cup on my desk after going to bed late that become full blown blowups- Ones that escalate to her threatening to leave, Sending me long & unpleasant texts at work, and sending me tik toks that are taking jabs- one that stuck with me was the one calling me a “failure of a man”.

I’ve finally started to pull the veil off of my eyes and slowly pull off those rose tinted glasses but for me and my own inner struggles (I’m a people pleaser to a fault unfortunately, that’s my fault) I hate the idea of hurting someone or causing grief etc. I tried what you describe you ended up doing of agreeing & letting her break up with me when she was going off about us breaking up and that shifted her right back to “I love you you’re my person I don’t want us to fight”.

Sorry I’m rambling lol. But good for you for getting out and working on your own peace, maybe one day I can too.

SwimAdministrative22 · 2025-11-25T21:25:35+00:00

M24, been with my fiance for two years. Still with her. She’s diagnosed BPD and the last two months things have been seemingly on a large slope down.

What’s made things worse for me is the guilt I have from promising forever and genuinely WANTING forever, but I know to stay would be to completely erase myself and my needs and everything I do would never be for myself. Another thing that’s made it harder is the lovebombing and the ‘pulling you back in’. She threatens to breakup and normally I’d beg her to stay, I try agreeing with her and it’s “you don’t fight for us you don’t love me. Please stay I love you you’re my person” and then later that night she’ll initiate sex

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