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I think I have a gambling addiction?


I'm moving to a new city to be with my girlfriend. We've been living apart long distance for the last year. I've been gambling alot over the last year and took a 1500 hit this weekend and I think I hit rock bottom. I know if she knew this she wouldn't be very happy. I need money to move away with and I want this addiction to end. I don't want her to know I have thet addiction in fear of her leaving me and I want to quit when I get up there. But I don't want her to know I'd be going to counselling or whatever. We'll be living together and I can't tell her I'm going to counselling. What should I do?

You don't want to be honest with her? Hrm! That's no way to start the relationship, where's the Trust! Your cheating yourself and her out of the honesty it takes to make a relationship work!

Just ask for her support and see someone or attend groups for gambling addiction when you get there.

i myself love to gamble even when i shouldnt.... but if i were you id tell her... she will find out sooner or later and thats worse than being straght up with her, if she loves you she will try to help you and work threw it with you..... then you wouldnt have to lie and then lie about where you were when u were at counceling........if it were my man id want him to tell me so i could help him :) good luck and keep smiling :)

Then don't move in with her. She deserves to know what she will be dealing with as far as your addiction. There is help and maybe you underestimate her. If you love each other, you have to be totally honest from the start or your relationship will never go very far. Trust and honesty are the rock in all relationships. If you can trust her to care or she can't trust you to let her know, then you are doomed already. Face the music. I believe it is Step 9 in any 12-Step Program for addiction.
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