I WAS MISERABLE

Posted by on Mar 4, 2024 in Stories | 0 comments 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

Posted by on Mar 4, 2024 in Stories | 0 comments 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

Posted by on Mar 4, 2024 in Stories | 0 comments 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

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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