Hey blondie,
Great to see your post popping up and of course even better to see you keep making the right choice. Really pleased for you, life is so much better and calmer without destruction crossing your path. Close to two years g free - what a fantastic achievement! ! Be proud my friend, day at a time, all we can do.
Best wishes for ur upcoming birthday and high five for beating the s... out of this ugly habit 😉
Keep it up and all the best
Sandra x
blondie
Truly a great post to read my dear friend, so pleased the gamble free life, the one you choose to embark upon still treats you well.
As you say the sh#it still exists but through making the continued right choice you get to deal with it in a fashion that will only bring joy to your life.
Abstain and maintain
Duncs stepping forward never back.
Hi Blondie,
Just to echo what everyone else has written and to congratulated you on your 2 years gamble free. Well done.. S.A 🙂
BLANCO!
Lovely as always to hear from you and that you're doing so well. Many, many congratulations on both reaching the two year mark and moving on so well with your life.
I'd write more superlatives but I'm struggling to pull up my elasticated waistband polyester trousers as I search for the latest Jacamo catalogue.
Take care always
Steggy Arbuckle Laaaa
Hey Blondie
Lovely to hear from you again. Thrilled to hear that you are happy and content with your life and a massive congratulations on your two year abstinence tomorrow.
Take care and look after yourself.
Feb.x
Two years. Apart from wooooooooooooooooooooohooooooooooo
lost for words. Love Graham
Dear Blondie,
Massive congrats on your 2 year anniversary, 730 days of making the right decision is an enormous achievement. You have been through an emotional mill but have continually come up fighting and determined to live and improve your life and in this way you have been a great inspiration to others. You combine the tough reality with hope for everyone on these pages. We are many who stand with you now, some close and some far away but we all stand together ready to fight the good fight.
Just for today.
Paulds
Blondie
My sincere congratulations on completing two years of continued abstinence,a day to feel proud of on your journey,a day where I am sure you Dad will being shining the brightest in the sky,through the great sense of pride that you took control.
Well done my dear friend.
Duncs stepping forward never back.
Keep making the right choice for life
Abstain and maintain
Hi Blondie,
Wow 2 years of no gambling congratulations I can imagine it has been a huge journey. I just got to my first year last week and got my one year coin. So pleased for you to come so far on this journey. I wish you all the best on your continued path of recovery and keep going strong take care.
All the best
Ricky 🙂 ps Well done once again x
This sums it up for me, I am and always will be a compulsive gambler it's just that for nearly 26 months each day I have made my choice , today I'm not going to kill my self from the inside out,
Today I got busy living .
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=46GwJbrMghQ
Blondie,
No bet since 23rd April 2012 xxx
Hi Blondie,
Huge well done on your continued abstinence. You sound in a very good place and it's lovely to see.
Yes, we have to admit that we have a compulsive behaviour and live with it. I think change is the most important key in recovery. The mindset and outlook on things can change. Instead of running away from issues in life, we meet them head on, we get rid of negative things surrounding us and finding more fulfilling ones for ourselves instead.
As you commented on Angie's diary. Stopping looking for excuses and finding new driving force in life which is healthy for us and everyone around us helps us to reborn as brand new people.
Sky is the limit - change is necessary
Sorry for the ramble on your tread
I wish you well on ur continued journey to happier, peaceful and well balanced life
Take care
Sandra x
Blondie
So glad to hear from you,I was saddened by the removal of your name from the 2014 gamble free thread,maybe the honourable flagg will re-enlist you!!!
Keep making the right choice.
Hope that Woody is well,the boys send their love.x
Duncs stepping forward never back
Thank you duncs and Sandra .
I had an operation last week nothing too serious and I will be on the mend soon .
it's amazing the things that modern medicine can fix. One thing they can't fix is addiction they can give us the tools to do it, support , medication, counselling but ultimately the hard work and the commitment has to come from us.
I kidded myself every time I gambled I was in control, I could give up, I could control my gambling. It was all bull shixx, that was my addiction dragging me back in to the warped and distorted thinking that when in action you have.
I used to rub machines, and talk to them, if I got an itchy hand I was defiantly going to win, Every poind I put In was my last one.... Yeah right it was never the last one until it had all gone....
When I think about those things It makes me cringe., it makes me question my mental state at that time... And that why for me I call it the gambling madness... It was never just about the money in fact it was never about the money .... It was the thrill, it was the chaos it created, it was the stinking thinking, I could blame everyone else which meant I never had to take any action because it wasn't my fault....
It terrifies me writing this because tomorrow if I make the wrong choice.... Within days I would be back there....
Today I got busy living.....
Blondie xxx
Compulsive gambler
No bet since 23rd April 2012.
Hi Blondie,
Just a flyer to say hi and that's its great to read that you are still clean, and still walking the walk of Life one day at a time! -joanxxx
Hi Hun,
Well i'm B*****ed, came back to the fold and your last post says it all!!!
Gambling addiction is something that non gamblers don't get. Hell girl we don't choose this "why the hell would we do this to ourselves"
Hope u doing ok not caught up yet but wanted to drop in and say Hi....Hi Blondie xx
Much love Sue xxxxx
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