Day 210: no gambling today.
Day 211: no gambling today.
7th Oct 2011: 2nd June 2012.
Excellent.
Jon
I actually won some money (well, sort of) and I did not gamble to get it! I received a letter from HMRC stating that I had overpaid tax in both the 2005/06 and 2006/07 financial years. I received a cheque of £430 - feels like a bonus! This is very good news as money is tight at the moment and it will help keep me out of my overdraft for a little while longer. This time last year, I would have used it as extra gambling money and would have blown it straightaway on some donkey in the Epsom Derby. Never again.
Day 212: no gambling today.
Day 213: no gambling today.
It has been a long day. I worked all morning and then spent the early afternoon packing baby clothes and accessories before driving in the rain with my wife and son to my parent's house, where we will be staying for the next week. I just watched the news and the river pageant highlights. It was impressive, but I do not envy the people who attended - standing in the cold and rain while trying to get a view of the queen from a big crowd of flag-waving people is not my idea of fun! My aunt, uncle and cousins are visiting in the morning to meet my baby son. Bed now.
Day 214: no gambling today.
Yesterday was a good day with no time to even contemplate gambling. My aunt, uncle and cousins visited for lunch and we had a nice time in our garden in between the showers. I have a few stressful days ahead preparing for an event on Thursday lunchtime, but the rest of the week should be relaxing. The atmosphere in my parent's house is always a bit tense when my wife is here as my mother and wife both have quite strong personalities and they do not always see eye-to-eye so they just seem to irritate each other. Sometimes I just have to go into another room or the toilet to avoid it all. I like my own space and wish that everyone could just get along well with each other. Going to visit some friends this afternoon in order to meet their newborn baby. No time for gambling. The next real challenge will be Royal Ascot in a fortnight - it started with massive wins last year but ended in crippling defeat and massive losses. I cannot bear to think about it.
Day 215: no gambling today.
Day 216: no gambling today.
Just had an argument with my wife. Our relationship is not particularly secure and it does not have anything to do with gambling. In fact, I think I sometimes used gambling to escape from problems at home. This week has been worse than normal as my wife and my mother do not get on very well. I do not always find my wife to be very grateful and she has been rather thoughtless this week. I am going to bed. Have had enough of it all.
Slightly better day today. My brother visited and that improved the atmosphere at home. I also got through a stressful public event at lunchtime so am slight less edgy now. Need to get up early tomorrow morning to help clean and tidy my parent's house, which looks like a bomb has hit it after a few days with a baby at home!
Day 217: no gambling today.
Hi Pellekanin,
unfortunately only in a position to say well done and keep going etc... no relationship advice here... separated myself... not gambling related.
I could say you have to separate the relationship from your gambling and not let that be the reason/excuse to go back to it. Although I would understand that those times where a relationship is on a low ebb are the most testing.
Day 217... Keep going.
Jon
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