I really appreciate your time and putting things in a different perspective for me. I’m leaning toward feeling some sympathy for him. I know him and there’s no way he would have done this to us on purpose. The things you say are starting to make sense. I have no experience with this. Nobody in my family ever gambled and I’ve never even bought a lottery ticket in my life. It’s a waste of money in my opinion.
I informed his family that he was still gambling after they gave him money to help pay off some of his debts. They will absolutely no longer give him any money whatsoever. So, there’s no worries there.
He has told me I can now check his bank transactions anytime I want starting from last Friday. He has a large bonus coming in February that I told him needs to immediately be transferred to my bank account when it arrives so I can pay off his brother and parents, plus the 600% interest payday loan. We won’t be able to pay his aunt the $13,000 so will continue to make weekly payments to her. Plus, we’ll still have about $35,000 worth of high interest credit cards and loans he took out to deal with. He agreed to transfer that bonus to me. We’ll see…
Another issue I need to address is the gambling advertisements. My husband told me that was the single factor of why he couldn’t quit last week after he promised me he would. These advertisements are all over television and social media in-your-face offering “free money” to get started and “free money” if you lose. He said he would be scrolling through Facebook and they were EVERYWHERE and he couldn’t resist. I believe him because I see them everywhere, too. It is prohibited in the United States to advertise cigarettes and I think it should be the same for these ridiculous gambling apps. I’m going to contact my local state representative, do some research, and go from there. This needs to end the way they trick and lure people into their scams and hoaxes.
Thank you again for all your help.