Recovery

Posted by on Jun 16, 2013 in Stories | 0 comments 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

Posted by on Jun 6, 2013 in Stories | 1 comment 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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Phil’s Story

Posted by on Jun 6, 2013 in Stories | 0 comments Things came to a head in June 2006. My daughter was due to go to Turkey on her first foreign holiday. She had given her mum her passport application and her fee some months before. She had also given my wife all of her spending money which had all been gambled away. My wife was at rock bottom and she had no option but to be honest with me. The next day she attended her first G.A meeting and our...
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One Day at a Time…

Posted by on Jun 6, 2013 in Stories | 1 comment My first experience of Gamblers Anonymous and GamAnon My first experience of Gamblers Anonymous and GamAnon was in June 2004 when my partner and I had been together for nearly 2 years. I took him to that first meeting, just like many others have taken a loved one to a meeting, desperately looking for help for a problem that they know they cannot deal with alone. What brought us to that meeting...
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Why I Attend the Group

Posted by on Jun 6, 2013 in Stories | 0 comments The other week at our meeting a recent member asked the question, why do people attend the group meetings? I thought fast and then responded. Over six years ago our family was hit with the absolute bombshell of compulsive gambling. Never had we felt so alone and powerless and lacking any understanding of what had just happened. Luckily we were able to search the Internet and find the details of...
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