That's one of the first things I did. I signed up for daily credit
watch with Equifax using DH's social security number. If there is
ANY activity at all I get an email immediately. If there is no
activity all month, they send an email that says "no news is good
news." I think it cost me $99 for the year. I can also access his
credit report as many times as I want all year.

My CG husband has been in a formal program for about 9 months now.
It will be a year in May since he has placed a bet (he was a sports
bettor). He is a new man. He went to GA two times and wouldn't go
back after someone made a personal remark about him. He told me what
happened and I agreed. He goes to a center with a counselor who
specializes in compulsive gambling. He had several weeks of one on
one and then they assimilated him into the group meeting. It has
worked very well for him. He has never been more committed to his
family.

CG even works overtime every week to try to replace the money he
threw away. Sometimes I think he has replaced his obsession with
gambling with an obsession with working. We also have been in
marriage counseling for almost two years now. I discovered his
gambling two years ago and made him go. He swore he stopped. I
believed. Then last February I was hospitalized for two weeks and
lost our baby to an illness. Two months later I discovered he had
been gambling again, even while I was ill. That's when I let the
secret out to his family and his older brother helped me find a
center.

I remain guarded and cautiously optimistic. He has shown so much
effort and I have slowly begun to trust him again. Our lives are
better than when we got married. We are expecting a baby boy in May,
right near his one year "clean" anniversary. What a gift to him!
There is hope where once there was none. I pray the same can happen
for you too!

Tracey




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<no_reply@y...> wrote:
> Just found this out today. CG spouse lost his wallet while on
> vacation (he truly did) and we had to cancel and reapply for a lot
of
> documents. I found out from my Credit Card Company that I needed
to
> call Equifax to have a "Fraud Alert" added to my "file" so I did
that.
>
> I called and gave them HIS social security number and what will
> happen is that anytime anyone (even HIM) tries to open a new
account,
> a phone call will be made to the home number I gave them to ask if
it
> is legit. Won't totally stop him from opening up other charge
> accounts, but chances are I will get a phone call alerting me to
the
> attempt BEFORE he succeeds!
>
> This was not the intent of the program, but it will work that way
too
> and I thought it might be of help for me and maybe for someone else
> out there too.
>
> The Equifax number was 1-800-680-7289 and the call took all of 2
> minutes. It is automated.