Topic: Can Gambling affect your relationship? - page 31. (Read 4469 times)

Your wife knew a lot about you before and after the marriage, so your relationship is intact even though you are a gambler in the present day. But in my case the opposite happened to you because before marriage I could participate in gambling freely but now after marriage my wife forbids me to participate in gambling all the time. My wife is pious and religious ,my wife knows gambling as an abominable act so my wife always asks me to refrain from gambling. But most of the time I refrain myself from gambling because I value relationships because gambling can never be bigger than valuable relationships.

Gambling can have both positive and negative effects on individuals. However, if you are an irresponsible gambler, it can significantly impact your life in a negative way, particularly by endangering your financial stability and potentially leading to bankruptcy. This is why gambling operators always emphasize the importance of gambling responsibly, recognizing the addictive nature of gambling. Those who lack discipline are at a high risk of developing gambling addictions.

Conversely, if you are consistently winning in gambling, life can become financially easier, as the process of making money through gambling can be quite instantaneous.

The answer to this question actually varies depending on the person's purpose and addiction because gambling is just entertainment for some people and unfortunately addiction for some people.

First of all, I would like to start by answering yes to the question asked. If an individual addicted to gambling reaches a level where he/she loses all his/her money to gamble and negatively affects his relationship with the people around him due to gambling. His family, valentine and friends relationships will be negatively affected due to this addiction. In other words, someone who is addicted to gambling will have relationship problems with the people around them due to this addiction.

The answer to the question can be given as no for the following reason. If gambling serves only an entertainment purpose for an individual and if this person gambles only for entertainment purposes without reaching the level of addiction, his/her relationships with the people around him/her will not be negatively affected in any way due to gambling.

If there is only one answer to this question, the person should ask himself/herself the question "Am I addicted to gambling?" and learn the answer based on the answer he/she can give to this question. So, the answer to the question completely varies from individual to individual.

Agree on that statement mishandling the situation will affect not only you as individual but also those people around you,
with the way you will judge everything it will be more in favor of your gambling activities.

It's the relationship with either your family or your close friends that will be ruined since your focus is more on your gambling participations.

It's tough as you already being dominated by gambling and nothing else that you wanted to do aside from pleasing your gambling activities.

Imho the only way gambling can affect relationship are two cases - when you gamble and lose your second half money, or when you give more attention to gambling than to your second half. Everything else is can be negotiated. Relationship is a work, responsibility, sacrifice and compromises of two. Have an addiction - share it with her/him and find a joint solution. If gambling is fun, share it with her/him. But, gamble only with own money and value her/him over gambling. Or just talk with each other ffs, this solves most of couple problems.

What kind of relationship are you referring to? Is it our husband's, if there is one? With relatives or friends?Actually, all of that will affect what I mentioned. But gambling also has a good effect when you win a large amount of money from it. And when that happens, of course, your own family and friends will be happy for you.

But when you often lose gambling and your behavior changes because you have an addiction to it, your relationships with your family, relatives, and friends will definitely be affected.

My wife knows I gamble. She knew about it before I got married, because I am a supporter of trusting relationships in the family and disclosed all my hobbies. But I will tell you honestly that even if I spend on gambling a little money from the family budget she does not like it. I found a great way out of this situation - subscription campaign on this forum allows me to communicate on the forum and play gambling without spending money from the family budget. My wife is not annoyed and I am happy that I can afford to play slots or poker.

I got confused on the thread. I thought you'd asked a question but you've provided your view and not asked a question.

It affects you in all aspects once you get addicted and are not able to control yourself because you don't have time for your partner or family because you are more focused on gambling you've always had no money to spend for your family's needs and worse you've got a lot of debt because of gambling. But if you're not addicted then I don't see any reason that can affect your relationship unless you've prioritized it over your family but that is also a sign of addiction.

 Gambling can only affect my relationship when I don't have a control on my gambling habits. The art of gambling is a risky something and it's more dangerous when one allows himself to be addicted. Just like @Oshosondy mentioned, you play with an amount that can be easily parted away with, anf for such to happen, you'd need to have control because if there's a deficiency in control you can easily touch the remaining $475, after all you have the belief that you can get it back.
 Some have said it's frustration over current situation or some issues in the home that pushed them to find solace in gambling but just like every other bad vice can affect relationships, gambling is also part of them.

Of course it can affect your relationship to anyone since  you became in denial of everything as well it can affect your lifestyle and financial capacity. This is one of the root cause on why there are broken family especially if the affected adult mishandled their fortune. Hopefully we will not go in this situation so new gamblers should see the bad effect of expecting to much on gambling and make it as a full time habit since this could ruin their life.

I have seen friends, relationships and couples break up and divorce because of gambling. Gambling is something that gradually eating up people's financially. When you start at the beginning it will do as if it will not do you anything, but as you progress it will eat you up. When you start with small amount of money to place a bet and you win small amount so that will motivate you to increase the bet and probably you win that bet you increase again and lost the bet then you will be determined to win back the lost game there the whole thing burst out and you will be lure to be a perpetual gambler and you can't come again and your determination to win back your lost games led to the addiction of gambling and that cause the breaking down of financial security. You will be in the casino site or hall with the little amount you have so friends and family members would have quarrel with you always and before you know relationship has been scattered. Anyone who rely on gambling to survive must have problem with close friends.

How i wish that i do have a partner like yours on which it do really allows you to play gambling without having those financial issues or possible quarrels or argumentation basing up on the amount that you are using on your gameplay because in my part even just simply wasting up that $10 on gambling would really be resulting into a whole day kind of quarrel or being that disappointed on what i have done. This is why it would really be better for it to be keep on secret as long you dont give her that lacking amount of your salary then there's no questions asked as long it would be complete. 
 So far i dont have problems when it comes to my gambling game or session because the money spent is really just that an extra amount which i do able to earn here on crypto space.
I do never ever make my day job salary would really be reduced or would really be deducted because that would really be a long long story for me to explain on where those
funds go and this is something that i dont like to happen.

Yes of course gambling can have a significant impact on relationships and most likely , except for few lucky exceptions, in a negative manner under many different aspects of your life : it can bring financial issues when you cannot keep to a proper bankroll management, it often involves wasting valuable time in gambling habits , in worst cases up to isolation, it often leads you to lie to hide your habits or to deny that the time and/or money that is taken away from the activities that really matter in real life is dedicated to gambling, and also what is no less negligible the influence on your mood that it might cause.

So better being a recreational player that spend few time and resources on gambling rather then relying on it for your real life needs.

@OP you're asking about gambling in general, but you're talking about gambling addiction effect, both of them are different!

Imagine there are two people live in a same country where the monthly expenditure cost around $300 to survive.

The first person only earn $500 per month, he has $200 idle money, he's a gambler and he only spend maximum $50 per month, of course there's no problem.

While the second person earn $50,000, he has $49,700 idle money, he's a gambler and he always spend all of his money in order to get jackpot, he don't mind to borrow money to gamble more.

Which one has a gambling problem? the key is self control and gamble for fun.

Gambling addiction is a problem for some gamblers which causes various problems in their lives and also those around them. Addiction causes them to become more aggressive and unable to think rationally which covers their logic in thinking. Addiction is not a serious problem as long as the person is aware and willing to change, but it will be a problem if the person does not want to change and does not realize his mistake.
There have been several people I have met who are addicted to gambling and most of them are not aware of their mistakes and feel that what they are doing is not a problem for other people, honestly I really feel sorry for the people around them because they have to live with people like that .

Gambling is a key problem when is kept a secret from your partner.That in turns translates in many other problems incoming from this,like less dialogue and more stress,you get mad when your partner talks to you for anything as you cannot think about anything else except gambling.

For me personally my partner knows and she also keeps an eye on me by telling me to stop sometimes when I keep playing for long hours trying to hit that maximum pay line in my favorite slot machines.It all depends on the relationship between partners and gambling may or may be not a problem based on this.

How exactly is gambling a key problem? Gambling can only affect a personal relationship when addiction falls in place. When we speck of addiction, some how to me it's when someone who consistently loose to the house keeps playing to the extend of stealing or loaning funds to gamble. This way he is becoming stress over something he isn't certain to have a possible result which might leave him somany bills and dept to pay. From this, I will say such person is becoming irresponsible and this might end up damaging his relationship not only with a spouse but also to his local area. On the other hand for someone who sometimes wins and losses, understand his limits and when to stop, I will call this a responsible gambler. And such person can maintain a health relationship.

Yes, it can make our relationships strained and it seems that some people have experienced this, especially those with partners where their partner finally finds out that they have often gambled and even spent a lot of money. That can cause tension between those who have problems and that is why openness is needed between partners so that no problems arise. Gambling addiction, apart from causing serious problems for the gambling addict, will also cause problems with the people around him, so this must be resolved immediately so that the relationship does not break down and cannot even be resolved. Gambling addicts must also immediately try to cure their gambling addiction so they can leave their gambling activities and return to their normal lives.

It happens to gamblers who have no management in gambling. Using finances haphazardly and not limiting the allocation for gambling is confusing with the budget for daily needs. This usually happens to novice gamblers who don't know the risks of betting at all, they just play according to financial conditions that don't really guarantee it. Using hot money that should not exist for gambling allocation. In fact, they usually try to gamble in hopes of big multiples. In fact, I often find this phenomenon in the neighborhood where I live, a few days ago a woman came to my house to borrow money because her husband always took the allocation from the house for gambling. Meanwhile, providing for his children and wife is neglected and he has to borrow from other people.
Based on this case, I can conclude that gambling can disrupt household harmony if you don't have proper financial management or at least if you want to gamble, make sure your finances are stable and have a regular income.

Gambling can have an adverse effect on relationships, but care must be taken to ensure that the time spent on gambling is not more than the time given to loved ones. For those who spend time gambling instead of girlfriends, it is not possible to maintain family relationships for long. There is no problem that you are constantly winning at gambling but the problem is that if you neglect your loved one then your relationship will definitely break up.