When a member of the family is gambling, if he wins, the whole family praises him and everyone is happy with his move, but when he loses, everyone blames him. I think a gambler is already depressed when he has lost a good amount of money, so when everyone blames him, he may even be ready to take extreme measures. I have seen many in my country. All people have lost their lives in gambling or have gone mad because of one reason they lost their money and secondly because of the criticism they received.
It is normal for a person to get blamed if he spend the family budget for his own entertainment. The person should be responsible to not spend the family budget and losing it to gambling activities. Winning and gambling sure give more fund to the family and it is praised, that is good enough. And I also agree that a person who spend the family budget for gambling should be blame. It is the responsibility of the gambler to make sure that his action won't affect his family negatively. So if the gambler messed up he must bear responsibility. Because the scenario of a family getting short of budget could be avoided if the gambler has control over himself and avoid spending more than he could afford to lose.
I think that when family members find out that someone is gambling or wants to gamble, they should resist as soon as they hear about it and stop them before they lose, and if the gambler is praised for winning, then for losing, they should not be criticized, if there is a problem, it should have been stopped before, but I don't like it that when you win, everyone praises you, but when you lose, everyone starts to say bad things and stands up against you.
I disagree that the gambler who lost the family budget in gambling shouldn't be criticized. As I stated it is the responsibility of the gambler to make sure that he is in control over his gambling activities and do not put his family in tight situation due to his gambling acts. This is like saying that any donator in the government can be exempted from any criminal acts.
Gamblers bringing more fund to the family had been recognized and praised but this should not be an excuse for the gambler to mindlessly gamble their family budget and lose them all leaving the family in not good situation. So for me, it should be addressed if the person made a mistake.
Honestly, marrying a gambling-addicted person is really bad because his wife may hardly get any rest of mind due to the problems he maybe causing around every day.
I agree.
Instead of having someone to help you out with life and reach goals together, you're marrying the problem. That's truth that needed to be said and that's actually a good knock out to the wife or soon to be or whatever happened to them.
But it was a red flag and a sign that she shouldn't saw long time before. If she has cut off the wedding and marriage, then that's a good decision for her.
She has dodged a huge bullet.
It is hard to say whether the guy would stay as a gambler and won't change since no one can tell the future. And if the girl does not give the guy a chance then that is good for her since she believes that the guy has no chance to change his ways and by deciding to not marry the guy evaded her for future problem if the guy failed to change.