We CAN and we WILL - Join the 100 day and 2017 Challenges!

Roger reaches out to you and you tell him to man up?
Mixer I think you're a decent bloke but I suggest you Google the word supporting each other.

Most of the people in this group are early on in recovery and urges are going to be thick and fast. And believe me at some point your all going to get some.
Talk to each other about them because if you hide the urge well we all know how that turns out
Deano

Fair point Dean0, and I did mean it in a supportive way. However in retrospect, it may have sounded harsh. (Although I didn't tell him to "man up" exactly). So I apologise, Roger, if you've felt I've been a bit OTT. I've got to be honest, I'm new here and just finding my feet. I'm still working out my 'pitch'.

And if I get it wrong, I always stand to be corrected. So thank you, Dean0, for your timely intervention, nipping any comments that could be perceived as too harsh in the bud. Keeping pulling me up, mate, because it's the only way.

Roger - I so want you to stop! And can't wait to see you get to Day 1. And believe me... I warm up to everyone when they're on Day 1 and beyond 🙂

Yep ! Gotta agree with Deano there Mixer , Early stages my friend and sometimes people just need an arm around them and someone to reach out to ! .

Your enthusiasm's great and I'm not knocking that but not everything's as black and white as your painting it ,as you keep saying you have the willpower of " Kevlar " which is great news for you but not everyone's the same ? I just hope that Gambling never fires an " Armour piercing round " through your Kevlar suit otherwise you'll be looking for that arm of support yourself ?.

Alan

Agreed Alan, I can hold my hands up when I'm wrong, please refer to my post to Dean0. (Although it's my good friend KP82 who's made of Kevlar 🙂 - and nothing wrong with that!).

We all have our achilles heel(s) that the gambling bug has a way of worming its way into... and we need to be ready.

And we need to be ready for if any of us relapse... we are all human, even me (although I probably come across as a bit of a cold b-- at times - guilty as charged :)!).

Keep firing off the comments - brutal honesty is our trademark, and thank goodness for that.

Sorry mixer I'm old , I thought it was you that had the "Magical suit " and KP had the " Nut's " :)) ? So I stand corrected as I once said to my "Podiatrist " :))

Have a good evening .

No worries, Alan. Although I might need to look one of those words up 🙂 !

Don't get me wrong I think your enthusiasm is awesome.
If you were selling recovery I would buy the lot lol
I just thought saying give me 100 then we will talk about it sounded a bit to military.

Obviously you know as a compulsive gambaler we are adept to keeping things in. So when we seek trying to dig ourselves out and into the open having an ear to bend and someone to lean on through the tough day's is key to recovery.
Having an urge to gamble doesn't make you weak or does it mean you're not trying as hard as anyone else. It makes you human
Share your good day's. Share your bad.
Well done so far to all the group
Most of all keep fighting
Deano

Mixer, thanks for the words. It's a deal!

Dean0 - points taken, as always 🙂

Rogerson - Good Man!

WCAWW

Well I'll go against the grain and say that while tea and sympathy may have its place (it didn't and doesn't in my house) it doesn't get a lot done. How about turning the regret into something positive by drawing on the way you feel to make all the changes necessary never to feel this way again?

Evening all.

I do agree with some of the constructive criticism being put your way mix HOWEVER I know EXACTLY where your coming from my friend and I know you only mean well.

I had an urge earlier, I had the money, the location and I thought I had the time.

Until I told myself that I have jobs to do and go home and do them
So that's exactly what I did. I stayed in the right hand lane on the dual carriageway and didn't turn off Into town.

I'm so glad we are doing this together guys rather than individual diaries. Strength in numbers as I think Katie said.

Together we can offer mutual respect for each others addictions and also help, support and advice.

I for one am certainly glad mixer had this idea. Makes us all stronger. Although I still don't do self pity or sympathy. It's our mess caused by US, and US alone.

Now we're all on the long rocky road to redemption. Yes there may be speed bumps and flat tyres and the occasional breakdown, but we are just the AA, we're here to put you back on the road.

If we can't fix you up by the roadside, there's a specialist who can.

You know what I'm all about my friends........

I CAN. And I WILL. And I AM.

You can too.

Hi KP, and fellow friends in our fantastic group.

Another excellent post KP. We know this is a rocky road strewn with pebbles.

But we are crunching them into the ground, day by day, every day.

It sounds like treading on a snail. Crunch, crunch, crunching those boxes, online parasites, whatever into the ground.

Every footstep with gritty determination. Really rubbing it in. Who's in charge now, eh. We hate them. Despise this evil parasites that have been leeching us for too long.

KP, you have it. We CAN. We WILL. We ARE.

P.S. Lethe - agreed

P.P.S KP - I've changed the first post in this thread (2nd last para); approve?

Fully approve mix. Very humbling actually.

I'm incredibly determined to fix my mess. So are you. So is everyone on our thread.

I had one little idea and it's snowballed into this.

I hope we can help everyone that joins us, because their enthusiasm will help us too.

Day 11 tomorrow. No sweat.

We CAN my friends. And by God we WILL.

One day, KP, you can show your ex this thread. I'm not saying it will fix things; it may, it may not. But one thing's for sure. She will be impressed, mightily impressed, by the steps you are taking to beat this demon. You have galvanised other sufferers, which we are, into the right direction. Personally, you have helped me no end. Whatever happens, a very decent, caring, determined KP is starting to rise from the ashes. Starting is the word - this is the beginning - but my God, do you mean business.

Good on all of you for keeping up the posts and the momentum! Keep the faith. The strength and resolve is really coming through in the posts. I think it's fantastic.