Sarah, Welcome to the GAm-Anon Support Group Message Board. I'm sorry that problem gambling has led you to this place but I think you will find many caring...
Hi Gary - thankyou for your thoughtful reply and also to Susi for the posts directed at me. I guess where I'm at is not that I think I'm ok and he is the ...
Thanks Susi - I do recognise I have a lot of work to do myself and that I am very lame emotionally and need help. I have been aware of feeling very alone in it...
Sarah, Setting boundaries are a very important part of the process of trying to live with a cg and something we discuss on a regular basis at our GAm-Anon ...
Hi Sarah, I've been wanting to respond to some of the questions and comments you have posted on this site. First, I want to commend you for taking the...
Chandra, Thank you for the reply to my posting. I truly appreciate the help I receive on a regular basis from you and other members of this message board. It...
Gary, I am truly sorry for your continued difficulties in finalizing your divorce. Two things occur to me as I read your latest post . . .you talke about how...
I benefited from this post. I felt it was 'the honorable thing to do" to pay debts of my deceased partner-husband. I attended a Gamanon meeting and heard that...
Gary, Amen, to what basket1952 said in her posting to you. I typically sit back and read and learn, not sure how to get my points across or how they will be ...
Hi chandra - thanks for replying to me with so much food for thought. Can I ask everyone what they did as Step 1 so that I can check out I have not made any...
Thanks Gary for your reply. I wasn't passing judgement on you by the way for being duped by your wife for a decade, merely shuddering inside that I might fall...
Hi Sarah, I''m curious,...what's a VLT? As for safeguarding the finances, in my own experiences, I eventually had to go to my bank and inform them of my cg's...
Hello there, I hope this is allowed here and if not please accept my apologies in advance. My husband and I are dealing with a situation that is more than a...
... TELL YOUR MOM OR NOT ABOUT THE RECENT GAMBLING YOUR FATHER HAS BEEN INVOLVED WITH. I HAD A SIMILAR SITUATION WITH A FAMILY MEMBER. WHEN I FIRST BECAME ...
Kim and Jim, One thing that addictions rely on is secrets. The shame and discomfort your father may experience pales in comparison to the devastation that ...
Jim Morphey
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Unfortunately the area I live in has no gamanon meetings available,the closestt being some 40 miles away..One brother (the older one) has died ,partially from...
Hi Chandra - thankyou for the advice. I just spoke with my bank and I think I have got it figured out pretty much how you said. I can open a Savings A/C with...
Oh a VLT is a Video Lottery Terminal and I think they take 20 dollar notes and I understand you can get thro $1000 in 1 hour. I have no idea really about them...
Hello - I was thinking about this topic last night at the support Group I went to. I was thinking that it must be so much harder to have an addict in the...
Kim and Jim, You described your family member as a long time gambler, but only recently have you discovered it is a compulsive gambling problem. And found out...
Thanks Sarah...the VLT sounds like the same kind of machines we call "gray machines" here in our small little town. And they are everywhere here too. As for...
I'm new to GamAnon. Living in a small town about 80 miles from a meeting site, that's held on a night I have to work, is discouraging. The information I found...
Sharon, Welcome to the Yahoo GAm-Anon Support Group message board! Sorry to hear that there isn't a face-to-face meeting closer to your location. The ...
Thank you for your note. I will follow up to see if there is still a pen pal program. Take care, Sharon ... to hear ... The ... the benefits ... yourself vs. ...
Thanks Chandra - your suggestions are most welcome. I will sit down and try to work out a plan around the finances with him if that is what he will feel more...
Basket, First off let me apologize for the delay in responding to your posting. I normally receive all of the postings via my email site but I didn't get this...
well I have come to the end of my rope and have no idea what to say, do, feel or thinks anymore. He (hubby) has blown over 5 grand in the past 8 months on...
Nell, It occurs to me that there is a HUGE difference between needing Gas Money and having unfettered access to every dollar and asset you all have. Certainly...
Gary, I hope my posting did not insult you. I read the response you wrote to basket and I understand a little better about the choices you made to help your...
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