Telling my Partner

Hi Alex0paul

Thanks for posting on the forum. Please be reassured that if you need to talk or find extra support for your gambling call the National Gambling Helpline on 0808 8020 133 and someone there will be able to talk to you about some of the options you have for helping you to control or beat your addiction.  Please don't feel you are alone in this. 

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Similar to mine pressure is a trigger. I bought 2/3 of xmas presents. Then my brain said go to the bookies imagine the xmas i could give my family if only i won some extra money. Then i lost 100 i couldnt afford. Chased the loss and ended up loosing more. Then i went in to a frenzy of guilt and that i wish i wasnt here.  

I told my partner that im evil and i will go to hell cos im a horrible person. He said to me im not a bad person im a fool and do stupid things. Tell your partner what you did.  You have more chance repeating the process again keeping it bottled up. 

We put a lot of pressure on ourselves and wi5h an addiction our mind plays tricks with us tells us to do it and we could win to do this or do that then we end off worse than we started.

Rebalance your self. Its not the end of the world. We need help then focus on the goals we have without gambling. Deep breaths whats done is done and you cant change it. Make a plan now and stick to it. 

Hi Alex0paul

The best bit of advice I got when I turned up here back in 2018 was BLOCKS, YOU CAN'T HAVE TOO MANY BLOCKS IN PLACE. You can get excluded from shops, casinos & online through Gamstop. Even the banks have wised up to having a CG as a customer & can block gambling transactions.

"Very close to doing something stupid like suicide" ?, well now I never thought about suicide though there were many times I went to bed & hoped I wouldn't wake up in the morning. Do you think suicide ends the pain ?,. Let me assure it doesn't, it just passes it on to those you leave behind.

For a CG there's no such thing as having our gambling " Mildly Under Control " we can't stop simple as. So now a gambling den boss has the money you'd have spent on your wedding, you think he/her is riddled with guilt & contemplating suicide ?, I doubt it.

Some may think me harsh but what's missing from your post is a plan of action. It's natural dreading telling your partner the awful truth I don't envy you having been in that position myself. So is it not better to come clean, admit you're a CG, demonstrate intent by telling her what blocks you've put in place, contacting your bank & getting them to advise you about blocking gambling transactions & agreeing to hand over finances to her.

Recovery is a massive commitment. we have an illness, an illness that has become more powerful than ourselves, an illness that causes the CG to have the most toxic relationship with money. Only you can decide if you're gonna come clean & tell the truth, a truth which for sure will become evident anyway in time. For me I was backed into a corner with nowhere to hide & had to come clean & admit I had a massive gambling problem/ addiction., 

When I finally did it was a massive shock the amount of debt I'd racked up but as for my addiction in truth everyone knew EXCEPT ME. Years of kidding myself it wasn't a problem & I had it under control or mildly under control. It's painful being honest with oneself sometimes but honesty & soul searching is the starting point to recovery.

Best Wishes & I Hope You Find A Starting Point In Recovery From Which You Can Build Upon

AL

I think about these things… and you know people love you and if you did it. They would be why the £*ck didn’t he tell me. We would’ve worked through it.

I’ve been called all names under sun after and how I’ve messed up. But can work together I’m sure of it be open completely open, but asked for help.