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Laura, thank you 🙂

Today is one more day that I realized that winning back is not possible, I will lose again and set myself back financially.
Like you said, the value my family holds for me is much important then the 10K lost. It’s a lot of money, but impossible to win back. I always did my betting on tennis and my favorite horses have lost again this week, thus making me lose again if I did bet. That 10K is really the maximum I can live with, so quitting is the only option, and not betting makes me feels so much better.
On to a new week without betting ans losing hard earned money!

Greetings,
Greenstar

[Greenstar]

Day 8 without gambling, day 8 without that constant nervous feelings, but still mad at myself for blowing away 10K…

I realize more, day by day that I never get that money back, but that has to be the lesson to be learned I guess 😉

For recovery, exercising looks like a great way to cope with that urge. Not the urge to bet on sports, it’s no fun and before all this I hardly watched sports on television.
I still feel the urge to get my money back, but ok it will never happen. Best thing should be saving, and I’m quit good at that, even with low income 🙂

Have a great sunday all!
Greetings,
Greenstar

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Hi Charles and thank you for your welcome 🙂

This is the 6th day without betting and it sure feels better day by day. Only the loss of the money, but I will get over it, sooner or later. It’s a lesson learned but not a cheap one… No betting means more rest and peace for me and you can’t buy that!
About a blocker, I need to examine that, because it should be installed on our family computer. My wife doesn’t know I gambled that much and I’m not sure how to tell it properly. I know she will find out eventually…
For now I think that I’m on the proper road to recovery and found other things in life (family, exercising, reading…) suits me better 😉

Have a good day and great weekend!
Greenstar

[Greenstar]

Great to hear that Peter! And there are so much better ways too spend your money. And that nervous tension, that awful feeling while you’re waiting for the outcome of the match… Well, you can miss that, for sure!
Have a good evening man 🙂

[Greenstar]

Hi Peter,

I hope you have resist that urge last night. Thinking of sites without self exclusion, it sounds so familiar to me.
Have a great day 2 Peter! 🙂

Greetings,
Greenstar

[Greenstar]

Hi Laura,

I will be on this forum for some time, that’s for sure.
I’m glad that I noticed my addiction early and hey it’s ‘only’ 10K what I’ve lost. I’m sure that I will live with that.
One thing which made me decide to quit was last friday when I was betting all day, while my young children where at the house also. I hardly had any time for them because I was busy with gambling. That day I won one some money ( € 1000) back, just to blow it away with the initial money first thing in the morning. That loss made that I played and lost 10K in almost an year. That was the signal for me too that this has too stop before things get really out of hand. And if it was only for the money, but that nervous feeling when my money is at stake, and betting while my wife doesn’t know what I’m doing… It really stops here! I can say that I’m sorry for the money but I’m glad that awful tension is gone 😉

Greetings and take care too 🙂
Greenstar

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