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Hope you get on well on your first day (and every day) in your new job kpat!
Does your pastor know about your gambling?
I “confided” in the “Pastor Bone”again, yesterday!
He always forgives and says “Start again”
odaat!What I like about Recovery is, putting up Christmas Decorations at home instead of funding the Casinos to pay someone to put up theirs while I sit there feeding machines to relieve my guilt because mine would be still in the attic from last year!!!
I also enjoy taking money from the ATM knowing, it will be used to buy Christmas presents for my own family, not for the Families of Millionaires!
It’s sad to leave your job with “bad feelings” Kpat! Just think of how you would feel if you gambled…I was at a Retirement night out tonight. Good send off. Strangely the guy wasn’t as popular as it seemed tonight
Maybe they got the wrong guy! LOL!
I had to drag myself there and put on my mask. I left early.
Why don’t they have nights out in casinos, not pubs?!
I had a suspicion your hubby wasn’t a Cg or if he was I wondered if he was gambling on the QT!
Weak men make their CG wives very poor by enabling them to gamble!!!
My husband never gambled.
Too scared!
Never had the guts to try to stop me. He walked me into debt by his weakness.
I don’t blame him for my gambling but his weakness did not help !
Over and out!Very scary episode with your mom, Lizbeth!
From the sound of things she will need to take it easy until the cardiac investigations are completed.
Are you wise taking her on a trip to the city?
Will you have somebody with you in case she takes another “turn”?
It could be very stressful for you otherwise!Thanks for posting to my thread, Cat!
It’s great that your husband is “off the drink” as they say in Ireland . Going it alone shows he is determined. For his health sake, I hope he stays “on the dry!”
I hate drink!
I can tell you first hand, Cat, lest you have any lingering illusions, the “FUN” is gone from those slot machines! Long gone! You might as well go straight to the loo in the casino and start flushing your money down at high speed. It would take far longer to disappear there, than it does in the “slots!”
I think the name should be changed from Slot Machines to STRESS MACHINES!
I hope you make plans for Retirement. Cat. In my case my recent “service” was short, so it wasn’t like retiring at all.
My real retirement will be from gambling.
THIS IS IT FOR ME!
I’ve had enough!
I’m retired!
Would you consider retiring to “home” ?
At least you will have time to travel when you finish work. It brings a great freedom but ONLY if wedon’t gamble!Sorry for the slow response, Hope!
Glad to hear things are improved for you, but keep a watchful eye! CGs are tricky! I went into a “speed wobble” myself last month but I’m back on track now.
I don’t want to upset what seems to be a very cosy arrangement, Hope but it takes time before a CG can be trusted again. It doesn’t happen overnight even though we can make it appear that all is normal! We are good at playing “double games”.
Make sure his family and friends are kept up to date on recent arrangements in case he manages to borrow “for Christmas” , for example. That would be difficult to refuse. Also look out for any phone calls or emails from Loan Companies. At this time of year, they throw money at vulnerable people!
Hopefully this is all in my imagination, but I will quote a CG called “Geordie” who says wisely,
“Even though the monkey has jumped off your back, it doesn’t mean the circus has left town”!Get all your “Santa” gifts early to make sure the children are looked after.
Then sit back and enjoy the run up to Christmas.
I would pass on the counselling for now but it would be reasonable to ask him to attend GA or read this Forum at least!I hate reading that you gambled , Carole!
Makes me feel sick at the pit of my stomach because I know how badly you feel.
Trying to get a chance to email you…everything seems to have seized up. I’m on a sort of go slow, yet my mind is in overdrive!
Thick fog here today. It will freeze tonight. Went with “himself” to pay car and house insurance. I think hubby said it cost €900. I had to put my fingers in my ears when he was saying that because I could recall seeing that amount vanish into a slot machine in an hour, not so long ago.
I’m awake every night now, adding and subtracting money that I have, money I had and money I don’t have and that I will never see again.
I know how you feel Carole.
Sick!
I hope you didn’t put your life at risk by driving in sub zero temperatures after dark? When I think of all the nights I tried to drive home from the casino many hours after midnight wondering where it well all end, I resolve all the more to never put myself in that situation again. ‘Hope you don’t either!
Lots to tell you Carole. Will email asap.Thanks Ican!
Another chance!
November was a fiasco for me!
Over and out!I love your two poems, Tiki!
A cry from the heart!
At times when I could not verbalize my pain/shock/grief/sadness, I posted a poem here.
I have now decided to publish those poems (only about ten) in a small booklet and share them with select family/friends to help them to understand this awful “addiction”, which I will NEVER understand myself!!!
Maybe you could try that . Just an idea. Writing poems is cathartic . It also makes us accountable when we decide to publish and share our inner thoughts and feelings.
I hope and pray we will turn our backs on this madness forever Tiki.
It has taken me to hell and back.Well done on getting all that posted Liam!
Good to meet you in the Chat last night.
I had no internet connection all day until now! Almost 4am , so couldn’t look up your post as I told you I would. Way past my bedtime now!
Stay strong!Just wondering how the weekend is going for you Hope?
Great to hear things are going well for you Ed….I’ve had my gambling ups and downs but mainly UPS! Thank God, I’m getting a bit of sense at last! Having enough money to live on is better than chasing our losses, knowing it will all end in tears! Too stressful!
No word from Celtic (R2C)
I worry about him!Giving up on an abusive friend Skevoula!
Well done!Lizbeth, you amaze me!
I can’t keep up to all the activities you partake in! Even reading about them makes me dizzy!
Well done on losing 5 pounds!
I need to lose 5 stone!
Any tips?He will be even more surprised, Skevoula when he finds there is NO money!
So will you!!
I was!!!!!!