My stomach pains are getting worse and I am in the process of making an offer on a mobile home and moving out. I don't want to leave her but the pains are...
Setting boundaries will only work if the person who sets the boundaries is willing to enforce the consequences when the boundaries are broken. In my...
John, I can definitely relate to your problems. During the later stages of my marriage to my CG, I couldn't sleep, I had no appetite, I suffered from migraine...
John, I couldn't agree more with what Basket has said about setting boundaries. If the person setting the boundaries does not have the strength to deliver on...
I am finding it so difficult to let go of what could've been. Some days it seems like I am on the right track and the next day I feel overwhelmed with pain and...
I had a session today with my step guide in another program. We went over and over how I had tried to control my behavior for another addiction and had been...
What I hear so clearly in your post is your focus on your compulsive gambling spouse, not on YOU. Maybe how you are feeling about HIM and what HE did, but not...
I feel the pain in your post, and am really sorry to hear about the situation with your husband. No disrespect intended to him, but all I can say is that he is...
This relationship and marriage were both extremely draining. I am moving on. I am taking the steps that I need to, it's just difficult. I hear you tell me to...
Dee, I can so relate to your words . . . "this relationship and marriage were both extremely draining". I felt exactly the same way after 10 years of doing...
I am feeling a little bit upset and anxious today. My cg has been in rehab now for 13 days and has been alcohol and gambling free for 16 days. I was asked by...
Certainly is a lot for you to process and handle all at once, isn't it? Cetainly points out how very fragile the beginnings of success are for addicts. He...
You know, Gary. It gets me because he finally stopped gambling, after all of these years. In my mind, I thought, finally! I thought there would be peace and...
In February of this year my world as I knew it turned upside down as the magnitude of my spouses gambling surfaced. The messages I have read are very...
My wife has out of rehab since early March. Anyone out there have to deal with isolation under your own roof. Many days it's as if I am nowhere around. She...
Canada570, You Wrote: I am feeling a little bit upset and anxious today. My cg has been in rehab now for 13 days and has been alcohol and gambling free for 16...
JRC . . .sounds like what you are describing is the phenomenon called "Dry Gambling" and I'm not sure that it is a lot different from what we would call "real"...
London, thank you for the response, I just signed on last night and I probably hit a wrong entry and sent a msg that was already there. I am 57 and as my 32...
Are there specified times for chatting. As mentioned last night, this is all new to me. Just trying to learn and share with other gamanon members. Thanks,...
Dee, I asked the same kid of questions you are asking today. When my wife completed her first inpatient treatment program for compulsive gambling and returned...
Dear lwasserman1597, Welcome to the gam-Anon Message Board. I think you will find people who frequent this site are experienced in many different facets of...
... I have a 36 year old son who is a CG. It breaks my heart. Unfortunately I have enabled him at times, but now have no choice but to stop loaning him money....
I am the wife of a CG, but at my face to face gamanon group have met sseveral parents of compulsive gamblers. While there are certainly many differences...
Have a daughter that was addicted to alcohol and drugs. She is now 22 and in recovery. My wife is a pathological gambler. She came out of rehab in March...
My wife spent 30+ days in rehab at C.O.R.E. in Shreveport La. There is not cost to LA residents. Out of state costs are around $5,000. I visited my wife...
Lc, My ex-wife also completed a 35-day rehab several years ago at the Custer Center in Indianapolis, Indiana. When she returned home she used the tools they...
Hi, My 23 year old son is a Compulsive gambler, married with a 1 year old son. My husband and I soon found out enabling him would be the worst thing we could...
I too am the mother of a compulsive gambler. He still won't admit he has a problem. I think things are beginning to look up a bit. He's 25 and was recently...
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