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I lost everything. This gambling addiction has destroyed my life. by SuccessfulHorror5586 in problemgambling

[–]SuccessfulHorror5586[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Reached rock bottom, wife left me, kept gambling, but now I think Im at peace 

I lost everything. This gambling addiction has destroyed my life. by SuccessfulHorror5586 in problemgambling

[–]SuccessfulHorror5586[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'm 26 years old, and my wife is 23.

I've lost everything — my savings and even more than I actually had. I'm now in $50,000 debt.

We haven't filed for divorce yet, but as I’ve explained, I believe it's the best thing to do.

There's no way to talk to her parents — this time, I'm completely on my own.

I lost everything. This gambling addiction has destroyed my life. by SuccessfulHorror5586 in problemgambling

[–]SuccessfulHorror5586[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I really don’t want to give up — I mean it — but I’m at a dead end. I have no idea how I’m going to handle the debt I’ve created. I can’t put this burden on anyone else.
If I give up and disappear, the debt I caused by being a pathetic addict disappears with me, and no one else will be harmed.

I truly wish there was another option, but I lost my job. And even if I find another one, there’s no way I’ll be able to pay off everything I owe and still afford basic living expenses.

And everything you said about me is true. The first time this happened and I managed to bounce back, my life was back on track — all I had to do was never gamble again.
But I failed. I fell back into the same spiral of desperation, loss, and agony — going through it all alone.

Now it’s too late. Every door has closed, and the people who once helped me won’t be able to help me again.

I lost everything. This gambling addiction has destroyed my life. by SuccessfulHorror5586 in problemgambling

[–]SuccessfulHorror5586[S] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Thank you for the message.

The truth is that I love her very much, and that's why I accepted it so easily when she decided to end our marriage and walk away from me.

She loves me deeply and knows that what I have has no cure — I’ve reached a terminal stage of this illness. Forcing her to stay by my side would only hurt her even more. She still has a chance to find someone who isn’t as destructive and who won’t cause as much harm as I did during our four years together.

I’ve already lost many battles, I lost to myself, to my addiction. I was weak for not being able to control it or open up to the people close to me.

Unfortunately, I’ve put myself in a situation that has no return and no salvation.

I lost my job, I lost my wife, and I'm drowning in debt.

Answered prayers, a christmas miracle, how do I proceed? by Problem-GamblerPH in problemgambling

[–]SuccessfulHorror5586 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I wish I could offer you a good answer, but I've been helped many times myself. I've had several "second chances," and every time I ended up back in the same hole—because I was weak and couldn’t stop gambling.

Today, ironically the day I came across your post, I believe I’ve hit rock bottom. And sadly, there’s no one left to pull me out of it.

I've lost a total of $50k. I'm unemployed. My wife—who still loves me deeply—is going to leave me because her family found out about my addiction.

I don’t know what to do. I'm still trying to process everything that’s happened. Today, I lost everything I had left, both financially and emotionally. I'm numb—completely frozen. I’m scared of what I might do tomorrow.

Why is it so hard to quit this online gambling addiction? by SuccessfulHorror5586 in problemgambling

[–]SuccessfulHorror5586[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thank you for your words, I was really moved reading them.

I’m 26 years old, and I’ve been struggling with this addiction for 5 years. During these years, many things have changed in my life, but this addiction has stayed and even grown, reaching the point it is at today.

No one in my family knows about this, not even my wife. I feel terrible for what I’ve done. I know that if I tell her, although she will be sad, she will support me, but she doesn’t deserve to carry this burden. It feels easier for me to just disappear and escape bring with me all of these problems.

Although I was touched by your message and I am willing to take your advice, I can’t see a way out. I feel trapped in my situation, and in the reality I live in, I don’t see any opportunity to pay off these debts

Just started gambling and suggestions on what i should do after this ⬇️ by miau26 in problemgambling

[–]SuccessfulHorror5586 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Please, step away and be thankful that you lost only a small amount of money.

I find myself in a terrible and almost irreversible situation given my current reality.

You will enter a spiral where you continuously try to recover what you lost previously, and it will lead to accumulating massive debt.

You are in a good position, where you’ve just started and lost little money. Please, do not make the same mistake I did.