Telling the family

Hi Tony,

Its a tough one. What steps have you taken so far ?

Are you attending Gamblers Anonymous ? Are you having counseling ? Have you self excluded ? When did you last gamble ? How determined are you to stop ?

You have raised 3 (?) kids (so must have done something right in your marriage!), the level of debt (from your other posts) is not at this stage catastrophic or life changing (like, I presume you aren't going to lose your house). You have a trade, and I'd guess in most parts of the country you could probably earn extra by doing some saturdays / overtime

It's only going to get harder if you lapse again and the debt mounts.

I'd always advise openness - its a fairly essential part of recovery for most people - but its only part of the process.

Thanks for reply. Like you say the money is not major but big enough. I'm more ashamed of having to tell all my family what a idiot I've been not sure I can do it 

Hi

My honesty helped me from living in fear so constantly.

Each deception or lie was a deception where I was hurting myself.

In being honest I was willing to face the very worst out come that could happen for me.

Motivation came slowly for me, procrastination was a time waster.

Please keep going to meetings, you will benefit from it in so many ways.

Love and peace to every one.

Dave L

AKA Dave of Beckenham