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I am married to a CG, we have an 18 month old child. I know my husband has been through a lot of stress. His father passed away 6 weeks ago. None the less,...
pupni, do you have a support group you attend? I do know alot of times it takes the spouse to move out and go on with their lives for them to get help, but you...
Counseling for you is critical. Your ambivalence comes thru in your post. You are already trying to establish a "plan"or what to do IF he changes????...
The girl I have been seeing has had a gambling problem for sometime now. She recently came over to my house and admnitted to me that she has about $30,000 on...
Certainly an important step for any CG who wants to work a program is to have someone else take over their finances . .that means they have NO access to money,...
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I have read online on this blog that an important step for the CG is to give access to money and put it in the hands of the spouse or significant other. I...
Think of it as you might if you were living with an alcoholic. It is up the the alcoholic to work a program and not drink. So would you feel OK and justified...
hi everyone. i am glad to have found this site....not many gam anon meetings in my area and even fewer that i can make. i hope to meet you all and share ...
if you marry a man with big debts, those debts will become yours as well unless you have a carefully worded prenuptual agreement and you still may be saddled...
hi, we live together....but no..our finances are not co mingled in anyway. i own my condo and he moved in with me....i was and am self supporting now and...
Hi Violet, I am married to a CG. I unfortunately did not know he had a problem or I was so naive that I didn't think anything like this was possible. We saw...
hi pupri, thanks for your story...it really helps to know there are people out there that are going through the same issues.. i have found that alot of my cg...
For those of you with cg boyfriends and girlfriends, think it threw carefully. When my cg husband and I were dating 17 years ago, he didn't have enough money...
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Violet, if your boyfriend were an alcoholic, would it be a good idea for him to work as a bartender? The same holds true for compulsive gamblers. Working in...
I love the Groundhog Day comparison! so very true. ... threw ... didn't ... guess I ... will ... a cg ... the ... the ... able ... the ... be a ... the ... ...
im curious what everyone does to destress....im having a difficult time when im angry...stressed..finding things to do or ways to relieve it. my life between...
First, I take a number of deeeeeeeeeep breaths Next, I recite the serenity prayer very slowly, thinking about what it means as I recite it. Third, I do more...
Deep breathing is a good thing, for sure! I also try to focus on what IS and IS NOT 'my' problem. I am, by nature, a calm and careful person. I don't fly...
thank you, that is part of my problem......i tend to take his problems on as my own because i feel badly for him..which increases my stress..because now they...
Violet, I think it is a pretty common denominator for many of us. The problems, the bad behavior, the compulsions, the addictions . . . all of them are HIS not...
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Help me understand this. My husband is a CG and pot addict. I now see the problem existed befor we got married. 3 years later and a 18month old baby and I...
Shifting blame to others is a very typical addict behavior - especially gambling. Don't attempt to put any type of logic on the behavior - their isn't any....
He tells you "He feels like killing (you)" and you are allowing your child and yourself to remain in a house with him? Get out now. Tell your family and his...
grant me the serenity to accept the things i cannot change, the courage to change the things i can, and the wisdom to know the difference. i think this says it...