Thank you Ican, Sad, and Velvet for your encouraging posts.
We have family here visiting. They are staying with my sister, she has a beautiful home. We have gotten together with them for the last three evenings. My cousin and his family came to watch the Outback Bowl game.
CG in that family too. My oldest cousin, son of my uncle who died after a major heartattack just months after being caught out for embezzlement. We talked about the family addiction. He showed me his private site for betting on his phone. (It scared me to death for him). All the while I am scared for him, sick over how animated my mother gets talking to him about gambling, yet my own urges are So Strong! We all played a dice game one night. 10 of usl then 11played. It was a gambling game, low stakes, I loved it. But hated it because the teenagers and my 8 year old nephew was allowed to play too. I thought. Well this is how it gets passed along to the next generation…..the 8 year old won. They showered him with the money. He was grinning ear to ear. Oh God, pleases protect that sweet child. Seemed innocent to most of the family. Seemed sinister to me. There were at least three of us that are fullblown CGs around that table. Who knows who among the young ones will be next.
struggling here.
