[karo]

Hi BBBX
..thank you for telling me straight ..
I think I already knew the answer though cause I’ve been trying like you to control gambling for a couple of years now too!
.. probably even before I went to GA .. I didn’t want to face the fact that something that has been so much a part of my life had been hurting me when I thought it was helping me .. but not only hurting me but hurting others too !!
my sister once said to me ..look around at the people in this bingo hall .. they are sitting by themselves and they are not happy or having fun … they look angry or anxious!
And she was right ..you really notice what is happening when there is just a few people playing …
the real truth about bingo /gambling is …. everyone puts in their money to play ..then you hope you win .. but if you do win ..you are taking money from everyone who is sitting there by themselves loosing !!
.. its not the bingo halls money or the casinos money you win but the “pay checks of your bingo friends or the casino customers who are sitting beside you loosing” !!!
And that’s what gambling really is .. so even if you win …it’s not right!!
You are winning at somebody else’s expense !
So it a loose .. loose !!
But even with realizing that ..I can’t seem to quit .. I have cut way back like you but I more then make up for it when I do go … and I will go !
Maybe not this week or the week after but like you say emotions dim … and I don’t even care about the losses or wins but about being able to play !!
and since all my friends and most of my family gamble.. it’s pretty well a given that I will have the opportunity to go again .. but I did stop smoking … and sitting with smokers didn’t make me want to ever smoke again …so I do know what is needed to quit ..
what I don’t know though is …
What can I find to replace gambling with!!
Cause the hole that stopping gambling will leave in my life … will be way lot bigger then the smoking hole !!
Thanks
karo

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