Posted on Sunday, 13th January 2008 by Bcarter
It has been a long time since my last post, but I think I may have taken too much onto my plate over the holidays. Now that things have slowed down, I should be able to get back into a routine for myself again.
In several articles and in “Behind the 8 Ball” I have read [...]
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Posted on Thursday, 29th November 2007 by Bcarter
So Q has finally been working steadily for a three weeks now and of those three weeks Q has decided to take his paycheck to the casino twice. I think he thinks he can control his problem and take just $10 in and walk out happy that he hasn’t lost more. Typical of a problem [...]
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Posted on Saturday, 3rd November 2007 by Bcarter
This week my husband stopped to get a pack of cigarettes for himself at a smoke shop that just happened to be attached to a casino. True to his form, he couldn’t resist the slot machines and stuck a couple of dollars in. Well, low and behold, he actually won a significant amount of money [...]
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Posted on Tuesday, 30th October 2007 by Bcarter
When I first started this blog, I posted my feelings on banning gambling. I don’t agree with the government controlling the lives of everyone, but the more I think and write about what Q’s gambling addiction has done to our family, the more I am torn on my position.
Gambling has put my household in an [...]
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Posted on Tuesday, 23rd October 2007 by Bcarter
The Widows Story – Gambling Addiction at Destiny.org
It is stories such as the one that I’m referring to today that really trip my trigger. Tales like this are so sad and Q and I have both seen it. When Q would still talk to me about going to the casino he would talk about these [...]
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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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Posted on Thursday, 18th October 2007 by Bcarter
The biggest problem that I have with Q since he has started gambling is the lying. Of all of the things that have been damaged in our marriage, it has been trust. I can’t trust Q with a check made out to the doctor because he has made the check payable to himself in the [...]
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