I WAS MISERABLE

I fought hard against Gamanon.  It ‘wasn’t for me’, I saw it as it wasn’t my issue and to be brutally honest, at the time just the mention of anything gambling related- even GA or Gamanon – made my blood boil, I was so angry.  My partner had been in GA for 5 years when I realised, I was still angry, bitter, unreasonable and I was miserable. Nearly 4 years ago, I decided I was fed up...
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WHAT GAMANON DOES FOR ME

When I arrived at Gamanon, many moons ago, I didn’t even really know what it was. I had decidedthat I needed to find someone or some people who could explain to me why my husband gambled, why he couldn’t stop even though we had 3 young children that I knew he loved (even if I wasn’t sure he still loved me), and what this illness was? I did understand that it was an illness, but that...
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SAFE

I have had to put up with gambling for over 40 years, my husband is a compulsive gambler. I felt so alone and unable to talk to anyone. I could not talk to my husband about his gambling addiction or even our children, I was at the end of the road in fact I thought I was going insane. Thankfully, I found Gam-Anon! On entering the Gam-Anon room, I was extremely apprehensive and nervous. I am a...
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Recovery

I had been married for 24 years during which time I had built, brick by brick, a wall round myself. I built this wall initially with small bricks made from doubt, suspicion and irritation. As time progressed the bricks I used got bigger and bigger. Some were made from lies, some from fear and some from jealousy. As I completed my wall I used my biggest bricks made from debt, self loathing,...
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My Story

One night in July 2006 I practically bounced through the door filled with excitement as my husband had promised to take me to a restaurant I had wanted to go to for ages. I came down to earth with a bump when I found him in the lounge in floods of tears telling me that I was going to leave him because of what he had done. And so it was that I found out that my husband who I had been with for over...
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