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Hi!

this is a big problem that is getting children Hooked and spending large sums of money. 
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After my husband promised me that all gambling had stopped and he was going to GA, my son discovered that he'd spent £800 on Google Play.....on a fishing game. £800 ON PRETEND FISH????????Why????? I would have not minded if it was an actual beautiful fish tank with real fish. He dismishe'd it "it's not gambling, I've done nothing wrong" 

How is it not gambling? How is it not wrong? It is  wrong when we were struggling to afford a holiday. 

Yeah I know it’s getting to be a massive problem. I knew I was spending quite abit on the game but never in my wildest dreams thought it was that much 

I can’t speak for your husband or the fishing game for me it was a PlayStation game I don’t know if you know it or not it’s called Fifa ultimate team where it’s a competitive game. Where u compete with people all round the world. The problem with this type of game as I found to my decrement is that most of it is a pay to win which is how they get you. You open packs to try get the best players so u can compete at high levels the problem is that they rig the packs so u keep trying to get the new players to help you win. I agree with you that it is a form of gambling and should be 100% recognised as such. I really didn’t know I had spent so much until my wife added it up from my credit card statements. I don’t know what or how or even if I can ever make it right with my wife I hope for our family’s sake I can. I don’t know if your husbands situation with this game is like mine or not but I thought I would post this to maybe shed another light on it. All I know is I’ve let myself down and my family and I might not be able to save my marriage. these things can be sorted out but only if two people can move past it 

You hear of incurable cancer, my husband is an incurable addict and whilst he is breathing he will gamble and lie, cheat,  deceive, steal from my bag, my car, re-direct mail, have spare gambling phones, smoke, lie to my facell,  lie to our children, withdraw his services as a father, let us down, go twice weekly to GA .....and lie and deceive at GA. Here is a scenario......my daughter needed new riding boots. Her father needed cigarettes and gambling. She wore sellotaped boots for 6 weeks. Do you think he went without cigarettes or gambling? No! Take advice from me, we are losing our home, his children hate him, I hate him. If you love your family do one thing.....sell the play station and join the library or gym. Sell it for them 

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Have you considered ehy he gambles?

Apologies for entering dialogue onto your thread

That sounds like an horrendous situation for you and your daughter to be in. I used to smoke for about 15 years and that was horrible to give up. I can’t say anything about the gambling either I used to do that a lot aswell before I got together with my wife the online gambling I.e casinos or even going to the casino was pretty hard to give up and thankfully in my situation there I didn’t have a family or any commitments I was living at home with my parents at the time so I only had rent to pay. I eventually stopped one day I woke up and checked my statements to see a big long list of transactions for the casino I right then and there decided enough was enough and wasn’t going to waste that kind of money again so me and my wife (we were best friends before we got together)that I have now went through my bank and counted all the incoming and outgoings and luckily I had only slightly won more than I lost I’m not saying this as lucky me example I’m saying this because it is possible to stop any kind of addiction but it’s difficult and hard. The smoking I stopped when me and my wife decided we wanted kids and what made me stop there was she said she didn’t want kids with someone that smoked so I went to meetings and took tablets and I’m thankful to say I’ve never looked back that was 9 years ago . The smoking for me was and will forever be the hardest to give up the urge to get the next cigerette was so over whelming and so strong I have never or will never forget how bad that was. It sounds like I’m trying to make excuses for your husband or for what I’ve done in my life but that couldn’t be further from the truth. We all have our parts to play in our own lives and we need to own that I’ve grown up with addiction all my life my grandma and grandad were smokers and alcoholics so was my father right up to when he died 5 years ago addiction I think can be in someone’s dna from the start or can be pushed onto us from an early age from what we see. But just as I was with my smoking or gambaling I will not let this get the better of me. I’m sorry your situation had got so bad and I understand why you hate him so much.

No feel free to join the thread. I’m not saying in my last post that it was my dads or my grandparents fault or even something in my dna that’s a cope out I’m my own man and have made my own decisions to do this so I have to live with whatever consequences I have to face and so will your husband 

I'm very confused about where I'm posting so forgive me if I've gatecrashed a post/thread. Trying to work out the forum etiquette and failing 

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no I was responding to one of your posts but someone else said about jumping onto my thread but I was originally replying to your last comment to me