Letting go of gambling has been compared to ending of a relationship. If you think about how long you have been gambling or been together, what you have been through, the lengths you have gone to for your gambling, how intense it has been. Remember the first time you gambled how happy you was to win or maybe disappointed you lost. Now think about your first date, was it great or not what you hoped it would be.Anything familiar? The difference maybe is if it was a disappointing date you never called them again. With gambling you kept on going back for the same disappointment maybe convincing your self it would be different or would all end up ok.
What do you think??
Thats a really interesting post hope...
Lets get your topic back to the top to see if anyone has thoughts to share...
Checking in . not posting much because thinking about not gambling sometimes is too much. Sticking with this challenge though ! thanks and sorry not contributing much at the moment x
Yes it's an interesting comparison. I think people do become emotionally attached to gambling and it's hard to let go.
I like your analogy and I once described gambling as the friend that all blokes have in their group that none of them likes but they still let hang around with them. I'm sure many people have other parallels of gambling incarnate. Would love to hear some more.
Ken
My analogy is: Gambling is like visiting a very expensive therapist to whom you hand £100 for an hour of your pouring out all your troubles, they listen, give you no advice, and then rush off in their sports car to keep a dinner date at The Ritz.
I hope that doesn't sound too facetious, but to me gambling boils down to: You give, gambling takes - end of story.
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