It affects me negatively and positively. As a family man, most of time in gambling are supposed to be used for the family but, whenever I start gambling, I totally forgets to recognized the presence of my family until am done with the gambling, this has caused me a big dispute between me and my nucleus family. It has made my family life difficult in terms of giving of attention to the family. Although, most of my winnings bring joy to the family as the proceeds from gambling are what I used for family maintenance. Currently, I have been able to balance the time for gambling and that of the family.
That is good if you can realize that the family is the most important in your life.
I am glad to see that you can balance your time for playing gambling and for your family.
We need to do that because if we spend too much time in gambling, we can be like him and that will make our life worst.
You need to search for a real job so you can give the money for your family and they don't depend on your win money because that will be too difficult for you always to win.
But if you cannot hold yourself and still playing gambling, I think they can give you a bad reputation, not just in your family but also in your society.
We live in society, some of them can accept that we are a gambler, but the other will not do the same.
So we need to be careful if we want to play gambling.