
Gambling Addiction & Recovery Support Group
Compulsive gambling is an urge or addiction to gamble despite harmful negative consequences or a desire to stop. A preferred term among many professionals is problem gambling, as few people described by the term experience true compulsions in the clinical sense of the word. Problem gambling often is defined by whether harm is experienced by the gambler or others rather...
I did the same thing as you, cash withdrawls, skimmed the house money, etc....I was over $20,000 in debt when I stopped taking money off cards. I found a 0% interest credit card and started paying it down. When the zero interest on that ran out, i got another, and so on...I am down to $8,000 and it feels great! I pay a few hundred every week or two, learned to do other things than gamble (like cook and bake and play board games with my kids) It can be done...I did it and so can you....
And I just cannot bring myself to tell my husband either.
He is a great guy, but we do not really have a great marriage. So it is hard to tell him anything important.
But this would really be bad. He would say things like DAH! I told you so! and things that just feel bad to me. And I am already beating myself up as bad as possible.
The good news is that I pay all the bills with my own money. So he does not know and will not know unless I die or something....which at times just does not sound so bad! I had not gone to the local casino in several weeks, and just had to go yesterday. Lost about 700 dollars.
They do not even have enough jackpots in the place to give me back the money I have lost!
And the time spent away from my family is even harded to replace. Yet, I woke up this morning and wanted to go back again.
I HATE THIS! I WANT TO STOP!