This weekend will be my 60th day GF.
Yes I should be proud of my achievement but it is only the start of stopping a 10 year wreckless gambling addiction that has cost me 250k.Â
I always knew I had developed a problem many years ago, l just wish it was enough back then to make me stop. I can remember remortgaging multiple times to clear the gambling debts and thinking right this is it, I cannot keep doing this it has to stop. However the cycle continued, multiple loans & credit card borrowing and 10k of lost redundancy money later my losses overall top 250k.Â
I still cannot believe a man with a great job, a wife and kids, a man that has some kind of intelligence to let this take control of my life and let me simply haemorrhage money like it is pretend money. I feel deeply ashamed of myself.Â
I remember like it was only yesterday just simply having £2 on the weekend football fixtures from being a teenager until my mid 30’s whilst remaining in complete control and spending no more that £5 a week.Â
However that is the past I know, what’s done is done and I can only shape the future. It simply good to let it out on here and speak to fellow people that are in the same position.Â
Thank you to each and everyone of you that comment and support me and have done for many years throughout my failed relapses and starting over again. I really hope this is my time to beat this and become debt free.Â
You know who you are….PinkLady, G100, Tazman and others. Thank you for everything.Â
Well done King. 60 days g.f 👏👏👏💪. Yes, it really is important to look ahead and not dwell on the 250k.
I lost 27k of my own money (money left over from selling my house and purchasing my apartment) in a matter of around 3 weeks!! If I think too much about that, it just makes me shudder in disbelief and takes me back to me sitting on my sister’s settee, trembling and shaking uncontrollably when telling her what I had done!🙈. In which case, I choose not to dwell on this.  As you said, there is nothing we can do about the money we have lost but we can do something about not losing any more of our hard earned money.
Stay strong King and keep going and remain positive for your future happiness.
Pink Lady 🩷🍎.
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