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Hi Daniel,

I too have had very large phone bills due to charging to my bill. It is amazing how quick the build up. I shall have a look over the next week to try and see how much I have spent via this method. Why they allow it is beyond me !!! As I am only 6 days into being GF end my next phone bill will be high ... just paid £380 odd to EE. Take Care Amanda

Hi Amanda,

I’m still early days too, my Mrs caught my when a DD didn’t go through for my phone bill and she opened the letter(by accident!) red handed! I’ve been gambling 20k plus a year for ages, one thing I would honestly recommend is telling your other half, I never would have had the guts to do that, I’m so glad that she found out otherwise I would have still been in the cycle, feels like a massive weight has been lifted now and she’s been amazing. Onwards and upwards!

Daniel

Hiya Daniel, I am single at present, got some good friends who I have been able to open up to. I am signed up to GamStop and have GamBan loaded on my phone and laptop. That feeling of knowing that I can’t gamble even if I wanted to do is great. I know that some folk would say that putting those blocks in place and thinking ‘oh well can’t gamble even if I wanted to’ is not really getting to the crux of why I gamble in the first place .. if that makes sense. I am finding that each day seems to be getting easier (I know I am only in day 6), but this is the first time I have wholeheartedly decided I can do this I am not gambling again. I want my life back !!

Hiya Amanda,

Gamstop has been a wonder for me, it launched soon after I gave up gambling, I gave my partner full control of the finances as soon as she found out(caught!), I think after reading through all of these posts on here is that we’ve all got our own kind of vice, mine has progressed to slots but prior to that it’s been anything and everything, I’m guessing that this has been the same for you to ? There’s probably 100 + more places we could do it online but with gamstop I think it gives us the courage not to look, it has done for me anyway, I’m no expert but for me this is where I get my life back now xxx

Watcha,

When I was younger I used to hang about in arcades and play in the fruit machines ... that was it, me hooked !! Until recently it was online slots that were my vice. I have never been to a casino (and to be honest, I don’t think I would want to -nor trust myself in). Never really been into a bookies to bet on the horses or footie bets as wouldn’t know where to start - so am not going to bother. I think as I have rented and lived on my own for 7 years I guess I just got used to spending my spare alone time online ... quite often into the stupid wee hours of the morning. It has been an amazing feeling getting a proper nights sleep lately !! Anyhow talking of sleep ... night night and chat tomorrow

Hi Amanda,

Same here, I’ll be 37 in a few months time, me gambling cost me my last relationship, I’m only now realising this. Things would be completely different for me now if I could have admitted to myself that I had a problem back then, people say that CG addiction masks something that’s lying underneath, this is 100 percent not the truth for me, I got hooked in my early teens and it spiralled from there. I got hooked on f**s booze and drugs so I think to myself that I’m prime meat for the industry! It’s still early doors but I feel deferent in myself, I’ve got a wonderful partner and a fab little 3 year old boy, I know it sounds selfish but I’ve always seen my money as “my money” but now I just feel horrible that I’ve stolen from “us”, I hope that makes sense! It’s very much still early days but I hope that each and every one of us can beat this horrible addiction.

Much love

Daniel

Well I am now 8 days GF and it feels good. Was been gardening with my dad the past 2 days, it’s lovely having a new focus on life rather than sloping off with my phone for a quick few spins online. Hope you are OK. Take Care Amanda

Hi Amanda,

Sorry I’m like a drip and missed your post. Congrats on what is now 11 days, hopefully normality is kicking in now for you! It certainly is for me, deep breaths! Keep the past where it should be kept, the past.

Much love, Daniel