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Ands,

Thanks for the post and very thoughtful of you - I think I had started to get a little complacent - and your little jolt was exactly what I needed.

Have been reading the diaries and good to see that you're spending quality time with your boys and establishing routines. You rightly say that this is ODAAT but I can tell 're that you're turning into the person you would want to be!

Hope the counselling goes well.

All the best mate

Hatch

Ands,

Thanks for your post and your continued eye on my diary.

Hope all is good with you and that the counselling is helping you come to terms with your loss.

You are a great example for us all to follow.

Much respect to you my friend.

David

Ands,

Hope you've had a good weekend mate and are still reaping the rewards of a gamble free life.

All the best

Hatch

Thanks for your posts.

A week since my last post on my diary and thats another week gamble free.

Believe it or not, i suprisingly still get urges but only after a hard session of counselling. I look at the photos of my sons in my wallet and that just works sooo well for me! Like i have said before my sons come before the machines. So on i plod thursday will be 1 year 3 weeks gamble free, odaat realy does work.....

Love my sons, miss my mum

Hi buddy. You are such a decent bloke.

Hi ands.. I think your doing just great.. and like Graham says your such a decent bloke your posts make alot of sense. Nothing wrong with routines they help to structure our days and keep us on a level and stable. keep working at it.. S.A 🙂

Hi ands, I too had pangs today. I think it's more drawn out of habit rather than anything else. We will never go back to that life. The kids are too important. Top man. Russ

Ands

Thanks for your post and great to hear from you on my diary.

You are doing just brilliantly (is that a word?) and continue to set a great example. I hope you and the lads are well and enjoying life.

Keep it going and keep posting to encourage so many others with your great story.

As always, respect!

David

Ands

Cannot allow your excellent diary to drop down to page 3. I would recommend all new posters to read your diary as you have shown us what can be done in spite of all the difficult circumstances that you have had to deal with.

Hope you and the lads had a great weekend.

David

Thanks for your posts.

Over a week since posting on my diary and i have not gambled in any form.

At the moment my life is just busy, work and my sons. Counselling going okish, some days hard others easier...Still think of lost opportunities and the people who are no longer in my life, but all in all life's not too bad!

So on i plod, christmas fast approaching and this years gonna be another gamble free one, presents for my sons...no stolen toys, lol!

Anyway thats all from me... take care whoever reads and remember gambling solves f*** all!!!! just pure heartbreak, miss my mum....LOVE MY SONS....

Hello Ands

I was reading back through my diary for some reason, i dont usually do that..and remembered how supportive you have been to me, so i thought ill go find ands diary and say hi. then hey presto you are at the top of page 1 haha. very strange.

anyway you are a good fella and so proud of you for beating this cr** addiction, well not beating as i feel we never truely beat it, but you are certainly doing brilliantly my friend.

A lot of your earlier posts stayed with me, you have ahd a tough time and so glad things working out good for you just now. hope it continues. take care pal.

neil

Hi ands,

just dropping by to give you a quick high five!

Glad you are managing to plod on, and stay gamble-free.

You have been through so much ands, and many others would have just gone into self-pity mode, self-destructed. It take sreal courage and strength of character to rebuild your life the way you have done.

Take care,

f x

Ands,

Another great post from you yesterday.

Sums up a lot about what awaits the compulsive gambler if we don't see the light and take action to beat this awful disease.

Money is one thing, but doesn't really matter in a way compared to the damage that this can do to our relationships with loved ones.

I'm sticking to this determined attack on my addiction and through this site have found good friends who will bring the reality of its effect on people into the open for all to see.

Respect to you for your great achievement.

David

Ands,

Great post - "remember gambling solves f*** all" - priceless BUT true.

We're all in a much better place for not gambling BUT we must remember the pain it caused - to prevent us returning.

Glad life is brightening up for you mate.

All the best

Hatch

Yes, I tend to just remember one rock bottom moment from my gambling past as I really am now looking to the future.

Have a great gamble-free weekend.

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