We all know that being an addicted gambler is a very tough spot in our life, but what if you need to decide what to choose, your addiction or you family? i.e., the given situation will be that you need to decide on the spot if you want to pursue your "career" in gambling or make a good simple life with your family? what will you choose?
For me I will choose both. You can always choose those two as long as you are a responsible gambler which is you know your limitations in terms of playing or gambling. If you are talking about of having it as a career then go and pursue your career, do what makes you happy so that in the end no worries you will have. You can always live a simple life with your family and love ones as long as you are a responsible and you know your limits, you can do both things as long as you know how to manage your time and having more bond to your family. Why I am insisting to choose two? Because at the end of the day you will ask yourself about "What if" so that you can avoid those scenarios. 
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We all know that being an addicted gambler is a very tough spot in our life, but what if you need to decide what to choose, your addiction or you family? i.e., the given situation will be that you need to decide on the spot if you want to pursue your "career" in gambling or make a good simple life with your family? what will you choose?
If you are a sober gambler you will pick your family 100% because you can think clearly and you know very well that it's not right to spend too much money gambling and neglect your family, but if you are addicted to gambling, there's a big chance that you will always find ways to gamble and cheat your family and spend more on gambling. 
We all know that being an addicted gambler is a very tough spot in our life, but what if you need to decide what to choose, your addiction or you family?
Have you had any relatives addicted to anything? People keep talking a lot about "Gambling Addiction". But have you seen any addicts before? The addict has no family, the addict has nothing but his addiction, the addiction blinds you, the addiction does not allow you to see things like family and friends. Addiction is a very serious disease. We can't think that just because someone lost a bet today and again lost a bet the other day we can already consider that person to be a gambling addict
i.e., the given situation will be that you need to decide on the spot if you want to pursue your "career" in gambling or make a good simple life with your family? what will you choose?
As I said, people who are addicted to anything don't know what family and friends are. They are sick and need treatment and a lot of support from family and friends, But never make an addict have to choose between family and addiction because I can assure you that the addict will choose the addiction.
If we are talking about a person who is not addicted but the family does not like him to play gambling and make him choose between gambling and the family? So here it is debatable and it will depend on some points like:
1-) Does the family have other sources of income or does the only source of income come from gambling?
2-) If the family has other sources of income, do these other sources of income arrive to pay all the bills?
Honestly it is a very difficult choice for an addict, usually an addict will experience stress if his desire is not fulfilled.
It takes special treatment before the addict leaves the gambling place, I am not sure without that phase he would be able to live a simple life with his family.
It takes special treatment before the addict leaves the gambling place, I am not sure without that phase he would be able to live a simple life with his family.
We all know that being an addicted gambler is a very tough spot in our life, but what if you need to decide what to choose, your addiction or you family? i.e., the given situation will be that you need to decide on the spot if you want to pursue your "career" in gambling or make a good simple life with your family? what will you choose?
If people feel the need to hide the fact they're gambling, then that's a good indication that there's a problem.
I'm of the opinion that it's simply best to own up to your wins and losses with your family, since they'll help to intervene if there's a need to.
We all know that being an addicted gambler is a very tough spot in our life, but what if you need to decide what to choose, your addiction or you family? i.e., the given situation will be that you need to decide on the spot if you want to pursue your "career" in gambling or make a good simple life with your family? what will you choose?
If people feel the need to hide the fact they're gambling, then that's a good indication that there's a problem.
I'm of the opinion that it's simply best to own up to your wins and losses with your family, since they'll help to intervene if there's a need to.
I would agree with that, there is no need to hide because gambling is never a bad thing if people understand it and if you explain it to your family that are open minded. The fact that we are hiding, we are prone to destroying our lives if we get addicted, because no one would know and we can always deny although they will surely notice.
We all know that being an addicted gambler is a very tough spot in our life, but what if you need to decide what to choose, your addiction or you family? i.e., the given situation will be that you need to decide on the spot if you want to pursue your "career" in gambling or make a good simple life with your family? what will you choose?
If people feel the need to hide the fact they're gambling, then that's a good indication that there's a problem.
I'm of the opinion that it's simply best to own up to your wins and losses with your family, since they'll help to intervene if there's a need to.
I would agree with that, there is no need to hide because gambling is never a bad thing if people understand it and if you explain it to your family that are open minded. The fact that we are hiding, we are prone to destroying our lives if we get addicted, because no one would know and we can always deny although they will surely notice.
This is so true that generally people work for family and give them priority . At times they will not buy anything for themself but will fulfill the other people needs and if anything left then they buy for oneself . But those who get addicted to gambling may find it difficult as it involves money and certain humans are greedy more than their family.
A lot of people now are getting addicted on online gambling especially now, there are lots of online sites right now so maybe some of them are already out of control especially if they are too much attached into it, it is hard for them to choose of the two for sure or maybe they will say they choose their family but in reality, they will not apply it to their real-life and still choose to play online non stop as long as they have money. 
We all know that being an addicted gambler is a very tough spot in our life, but what if you need to decide what to choose, your addiction or you family? i.e., the given situation will be that you need to decide on the spot if you want to pursue your "career" in gambling or make a good simple life with your family? what will you choose?
First of all, I don't think seeing gambling as a career is the right. Why? It is because payment is not guaranty.For some people who have successfully made some money from it 'often' put in a lot of hard work for years. And if such energy is channelled into a business it will earn you more. Instead of in gambling.
Secondly, family will always come first. There is no need arguing that.
No one in in the right sense will choose a gambling life without thinking of settling down with his family. Having a gambling is like having everything, gambling is just there for fun. You should think of having a real family and not building a gambling family. I guess you know what that means.
Most people will think like that, but don't forget that perhaps, there are people who don't think about his family when he plays gambling. He is too busy playing gambling, and he forgets about the time to stop playing gambling. That will make him forget everything, and I don't think that he will be able to win the gambling games too. Yes, gambling is for fun, and he should not use gambling for searching the fun only because he can get fun with his family. If he can get fun with his family, I think he will forget about gambling for a while.
No one in in the right sense will choose a gambling life without thinking of settling down with his family. Having a gambling is like having everything, gambling is just there for fun. You should think of having a real family and not building a gambling family. I guess you know what that means.
What is here to choose? You need to know your priorities, you need to know where will your actions lead you, you need to be smart and not let anything to disturb your life. If gambling affect your life you have a serious problem, question is not to choose between gambling and family, question is why did you let that happen?
Again we are on actions that lead to something, you need to be aware of your actions and what you are doing. Why to cry later if you can stop something in the root?
Again we are on actions that lead to something, you need to be aware of your actions and what you are doing. Why to cry later if you can stop something in the root?
We all know that being an addicted gambler is a very tough spot in our life, but what if you need to decide what to choose, your addiction or you family? i.e., the given situation will be that you need to decide on the spot if you want to pursue your "career" in gambling or make a good simple life with your family? what will you choose?
It will be a tough question, but for me? I will choose my family, no amount of money can replace my family, even I will having a good run in gambling still my family would be my first spot in my life and also my first priority, because at the first place I gambled because I want to have money to provide for their needs. Family first then career second. We all know that being an addicted gambler is a very tough spot in our life, but what if you need to decide what to choose, your addiction or you family? i.e., the given situation will be that you need to decide on the spot if you want to pursue your "career" in gambling or make a good simple life with your family? what will you choose?
If people feel the need to hide the fact they're gambling, then that's a good indication that there's a problem.
I'm of the opinion that it's simply best to own up to your wins and losses with your family, since they'll help to intervene if there's a need to.
If you have money but no one to spend on, definitely you are going to feel miserable. Those who have family they will surely hate even the thought of losing their beloveds just because of money or more precisely gambling. Those who have families shall have good control over their emotions and shall not gamble to the limit that they get addicted. They simply do gambling for entertainment.
It's quite impossible that you have money but you don't have anything where to spend it, and in the first place, it is not the gambling platforms that should be the option or last resort for you to spend it. There are many ways you can grow your money and make it productive. And for me, the only reason we came in to gambling is because we wanted to test our luck without really an intention to lose our money. Those that are getting addicted are those who really have a strong belief that they could possibly be a millionaire while playing.
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now, the family is my first priority and gambling is my 5th priority.. before marriage, I had been very devastated, because I let gambling control myself, now that after a family I realize that my wife and child are my primary responsibility, their lives depend on me.
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now, the family is my first priority and gambling is my 5th priority.. before marriage, I had been very devastated, because I let gambling control myself, now that after a family I realize that my wife and child are my primary responsibility, their lives depend on me.. 
A person should never have to think about this decision, unless they are estranged from their family or something. Succumbing to addiction is something nobody should ever do as it will just make your life worse than it already is.
Gambling or say money is such a thing that people forget the relationships in front of money and this I have seen it practically also . Only a self disciplined or say who have a good control can resist from such addiction else people are prone to it .
A person should never have to think about this decision, unless they are estranged from their family or something. Succumbing to addiction is something nobody should ever do as it will just make your life worse than it already is.
but gambling addiction changes the personality of the individual that is why sometimes this things happen that family is being leveled in gambling.if you are not aware,there are so many cases that a gambler has been left of family because of being desperate to stop them continuing their bad habit.
but you are also correct that it is estranged to choose between family and gambling because they are two different thing in reality.
A person should never have to think about this decision, unless they are estranged from their family or something. Succumbing to addiction is something nobody should ever do as it will just make your life worse than it already is.
If someone lived far away from his family, he is not thinking about his family for some time, and that can attract him to the gambling games. When he plays gambling, he can forget about his family, and that makes him use his money for playing in a long time. And it that is happened, he needs to pull himself from gambling and get away from the place before something worse happens to him. He needs to have a responsibility to himself and his money so he can protect his money from the loss in the gambling games.
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