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Posted on Wednesday, 19th March 2008 by Bcarter

I found a Guide to Beating Addiction over at ExperienceNewThings.com the other day and found that he has some extremely helpful tips to getting over any addiction.
The one thing that the blog post stated which I have been driving home to Q is to find something to replace the gambling. Scrap recycling is Q’s [...]

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Posted on Wednesday, 12th March 2008 by Bcarter

It just dawned on me yesterday that I haven’t written a post about my husband’s gambling in a while. This may be a good thing because it hasn’t been happening (knocking on wooden desk now). On the other hand, I almost always feel like I have to keep my guard up; if I let down [...]

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Posted on Saturday, 23rd February 2008 by Bcarter

About a week ago, I started a series about why I stay with Q, who is a compulsive gambler. Since then, I have really started to do some soul searching and introspecting. I really think that the second reason I stay with Q has to do with the fact that I thrive on stress. I’m [...]

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Posted on Saturday, 9th February 2008 by Bcarter

As I stated in my last post, I had two reasons why I wanted and needed to change the voice on my blog. Reason 1 was the fact that my “depressing feel sorry for me” blog posts were perpetuating into the rest of my life. My confidence was dwindling with every “feel sorry for me” [...]

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Posted on Friday, 8th February 2008 by Bcarter

In my previous post I wrote about how I finally think that I have found my blogging voice. There were two reasons that I didn’t mention yesterday on why I needed to change how I write on this blog.
My husband’s gambling problem has made me become more recluse. I have shied away from many social [...]

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Posted on Saturday, 27th October 2007 by Bcarter

All of the casinos in the Green Bay area are run by the same Indian tribe and they offer an option for a person to ban themselves from their casinos. The problem gambler needs to go to the security desk with someone to sign a contract that they will not enter the premises ever again. [...]

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Posted on Saturday, 20th October 2007 by Bcarter

I was watching Judge Judy yesterday and there was a case on where a boyfriend of a young girl was an extreme compulsive gambler. He had already ruined the financial ties to his family so he started asking this girl’s to ask her mother for money to bail him out. The whole time I [...]

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