[Closed] Charly's life

Hi Charly,

9 months well I hope you go out and celebrate as you fully deserve it an achievement to be proud of and no mistake.

Great to be able to tell someone your worries, share the pain and receive unconditional support from someone who truly loves you.

Hi Charly, sounds like a great Sunday. I have a great partner too and im trying very hard to open up more because she is so supportive and wants to help me along the road to recovery. As cgs for so long, we are so used to bottling stuff up and not sharing.

9 months is fantastic, ive jsut past the 6 and am getting so much from my GA meetings, i cant wait til the next one.

Best wishes to you xx

Hi Charly,

It really is one day at a time. I've had to cancel my appointment with a counsellor tomorrow because of work committments, so i think i'll try to get to a GA meeting instead.

Best wishes

Gee

hi charly i would like to thank you for your help and support in the chat room this afternoon it is so nice to have this support and i hope to go tomorrow and get the job done without gamblin once again thank you and keep safe steve

Hi charley

thanks for my post. It was very encouraging. I think I feel a little stronger now, although I know how difficult this is going to be.

I am sending Iain online now to hopefully open up a bit more.

He needs to do this, but doesn't seem to.

Congrats on the 9 months.

You said your man was very supportive. Did you have any rows, etc about your gambling.

You see, however much Iain says he has stopped, it is very early days, and he needs to get to the reason why he does it. and address them.

We had paid for some private counselling a couple of years ago, with no results obviously. Is it worth going down that route again. I am going to send him to a GA Meeting next week. We have found one a little nearer, although I dont think the partners one is there, which is a shame, as I think, I am becoming more reliant on this site to get out my hurt frustration, anger, tears, etc. Is that a good thing

xx

Hi charley

It's great to read your many supportive posts on here, thanks for your posts on my diary.

A big congratulations to you for tomorrow and reaching 9 months without a bet. Having read your story, I know that things aren't always easy, but you seem to finding a way to keep moving forward.

I would still like to have the chance to talk to you one day in the future i'm sure it would be beneficial to us both. I'm still hoping to make it to your GA meeting at some stage in the future, i'll hopefully have a few long weekends free over the next few months when I can head back Southampton way.

Take care, keep strong....

Doodle

Hi Charly

Wow 9 months , thats fantastic Charly , a truly great achievement , you should be very proud of yourself

Having someone to talk to really does make a huge difference and now having your partner to confide in will lift a huge weight off your shoulders and deservedly so as we all need a little help and comfort to get through this, doing it on your own is a very difficult and daunting prospect

I dont have anyone unfortunatley after my girlfriend leaving but i have found great comfort and help from my mum lately and also from some very special people on this site , opening up and sharing our problems certainly makes life that little bit easier 🙂

Anyway , congratulations again and take care xx

Stephen

(((Charly)))

By the time you read this, it will be 9 months gamble free for you! I am so proud of you, and so glad that you joined this forum. Your thoughtful posts, and kind words are such a motivation for me, and it's nice to know that someone can be a success in this fight!

I'm sooo happy for you, my friend.

Love, Anna

Hi Charly - been meaning to write for a while - your posts to me have been really appreciated and I have found them to be such a support. I like the way you challenge as well as comfort and that is quite a balancing act you pulloff successfully . I hope yourown recovery stays on track and that you reap all the goodness that you have sown these past few months - have a great day Jg x

hi charly thankyou for haveing the faith in me to do what i have done like i said on rustys post i could not have done that without you and evry one on here i thank God every day that i found gam care and most of all every one on here and you once again thank you charly ps well done on the 9 mths steve xx

HI Charly

9mths love it..Just the tonic I need right now seeing it been done knowing that it can be done..

You are a great suport to me and many others..

Love You Loads

Lucy

xxx

Hi Charly.

Thanks for your post on my diary. Really has helped as today been feeling soo low about the future and past but not going to think about anything apart from what to have for dinner tonight 🙂

Hi Charly. I go to Loughton, Gidea Park and Westcliff..all in Essex. I have and do travel to many other meetings all over as it helps me enormously and we have the International convention in Essex not far from me this year in Sept.

I plan to get to Paignton this year to suport Jims group and will im sure get down your way too, just need to plan a bit.

I have done telephone duty too which is a fantastic way to grow.

This site also gives me lots too and am using it to find out things about myself too. Its nice that there are different types of people here, and its a great foundation.

Love Keith xx

Hi charly, Thankyou very much for your post. i have taken in what you said and wise words you can make too many plans all at once, it takes time i guess and only 11 days for me. So pleased for you on reaching 9 months gamble free. That really is amazing, my god thats were i will be at the end of november. I believe if i stay on here and keep gaining more inspiration and never let go of the fact that i do have a big problem and that i give up, the end came and the bookies won, i was defeated. Now lets move on together, heres to your next big goal, 10 months, 11 months and 1 year !!!!! xx

Hi Charly, thank you for your lovely post on my diary. Kids and family are everything and will always come first. The International Conference is organised by one of my GA members and i am so looking forward to it. It will be my year then and seems a fitting celebration for me...one day at a time of course.

There is also one in Cork in April which i would of loved to have gone to as i love Cork, but im on weekend nights and iknow i cant go.

I had a very uplifting night with my son which i posted on my diary, but that feleing when your kids make you feel so proud you can never replace. He is almost 21, he has the mum he loves back and know how she got there. He is more than a man to acknowledge it, and you must be so proud. I wouldnt want to miss it and i can see why you wouldnt to.

Im so glad you found this forum. It is like going to GA without the face to face at times and for me reinforces my beliefs in people and the spirit which helps us arrest this illness on a daily basis.

Take care. xx