[GamblingSucks09]

Thanks for the responses and words of encouragement!

Day 2
What I’m really struggling with is handling the situation with my girlfriend. She is so mad/sad/depressed and basically won’t talk to me. On one hand, I want to be positive and try to cheer her up and say we’ll get through this and “it’s just money” or “I’ll get us out of this quickly again”. But on the other hand, I don’t want to make it seem like I’m making light of the situation because clearly she has every right to be mad at me so maybe I should just let her.

I’m not worried about gambling anytime soon because realistically I don’t have the money to do so anyway. What I’ll be nervous about is in the future when I’m back in a decent position. Because no matter how good of a spot I am in in the future, I’ll always know I should have an extra $150k if it wasn’t for my stupid gambling. And that’s a ton of money, it’s ridiculous.

So you guys are right, I need a gameplan for when that happens. Maybe when that time comes, I’ll come back and read these posts and seeing how I felt early on and how my girlfriend felt will be the reminder that I need to not gamble.

[GamblingSucks09]

Thank you for responding! Hearing someone’s response from across the world saying I’m not alone is definetly comforting. Congrats on your 24 days also!

I’ll probably post and update again tomorrow night. Being at work tomorrow will probably be embarrassing. Even though they don’t know my problem, everyone I work with makes good money and they sit around talking about their investments while I’m sitting there broke because of my stupidity. It sucks, but I can’t change the past unfortunately.

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