Topic: Keeping your gambling habit a secret. - page 22. (Read 8048 times)

Recently I had an incident with a gambler, this guy is a trader and he has been into trading for quiet a good period of time and has really made a fortune out of it, he is aswell prominent in my country ad many people has been under his mentorship and have turned out successful as traders aswell.

Over the week he did placed a bet on Chelsea to win Manchester city because he said he is a Chelsea fan and that's his way of showing his support and love for his team, so he did put up a post about it on his X-social platform(formerly known as Twitter) and so many persons rushed under his post to criticize and stereotype him for gambling, then I understood why people do keep their gambling habit a secret, because people hardly believe others can aswell gamble for fun and still be responsible enough. They usually think gambling comes with irresponsibility meanwhile out there are responsible gambler's unknown to them.

There is nothing like not proud of what they are doing. Gambling is not meant to be public or telling people or allowing people to know that we are gamblers. The fun part is that Many of the billionaires of real gamblers and it can be very hard for people to know except they decided to let the public know or someone exposed them. Gambling is meant to be out of the knowledge of your family. There are great gamblers and most time they tried as much to keep their family out of the reach of there gambling activities. Gambling is not something we need to say we are proud of but everybody do that.

And there are some places in which even if gambling is not illegal it is considered to be an activity people should avoid, so if  someone else in that kind of place found out that you were gambling there could be some repercussions, like losing a few of your friends or not being able to receive the chance at your job to move forward on your career, so anyone that lives in a place like that needs to be very careful about not revealing they gamble to anyone at all.

In some places of the world,  gambling is still an illegal act and at that, and the government have laws in place that may punish their citizens who engage in gambling and that is what has made them to hide or gamble in private places.

Just like drugs that are banned,  those who use them always hide using them,  but also too we have those who may not feel comfortable gambling in the presence of others and at that, and they tend to gamble only in their spare time at the privacy level.

If keeping some things private doesn't make people dare to point fingers against us then I think it's better to keep those things private. Whether you are earning money by gambling or you are losing money by gambling, your neighbors will discuss and criticize you. Where money is yours, people will make negative comments about you. If people's negative comments don't make you mentally weak then it's not a problem but if people's words make you mentally weak then it's better to keep the work you are doing private.

There are many societies that don't look favorably on gambling, so if you gamble in those societies and tell everyone about gambling, people will look down on you and people may look down on you. To avoid such bad situations, you can keep your gambling secret.

your statement made me realize that its not just whether the environment is friendly or not, but the religion that each person believes in is different. because what I know is that families who are muslim usually forbid anyone in their family from gambling because it is considered haram to violate religious rules so there is no other choice but to hide gambling activities from the family.

therefore I say ignore my advice if it does not make you comfortable because as I said above I respect the decisions of other people opinions because I dont know for sure what your family environment is like. and above I also said that there is a possibility that it is due to religious factors that you have to cover up your gambling activities.

In conclusion, just do what you have to do if that the best, but whatever your choice, never regret it later because I have understood several times that it seems like you are in a very strict environment so you have to be really careful with your gambling activities and be open to it the right people.

It is because they are not proud of what they are doing thats why they are hiding their gambling activities sometimes it is against either their Family rule or against their religion .

there are aspects we need to consider and not just because the community is against their gambling.

I am not secreting my gambling to anybody I even show everyone about my gaming since i was young.

but that does not mean that I am also proud of what am doing because this cost me a lot from the past.

So everyone can be sure to have their own choices, and of course we are not all the same. Maybe you are so because you have intimacy with your family so you can open up safely, but some also keep it a secret from the family, or it's just me who is like this hahaha, I don't know, I gamble just for fun, and bebar you said, that family is everything, I admit that because if we are in a slump, only family can accept us back even in the worst conditions.

Okay I agree with you on this one, even though gambling is not a good thing but maybe if you tell your family openly it can be understood by them, so it is not a problem if you play with limits by always maintaining family harmony, and don't let gambling destroy family harmony.

It is not really surprising that you feel this way, even if people are not as judgmental as they were on the decades prior to the current one, and gambling is more accepted as a hobby than at any point in history, at the same time there are a lot of people out there and regions of the world in which gambling is still thought to be an undesirable activity, and if you live in one of those places then if you were to reveal you like this hobby you could face some difficulties, and in that case it makes more sense to keep your activities a secret.

The reason I keeping my gambling habits secret is like hiding something I do because I'm worried about what others might think or because it's causing some issues in my life. It's a bit like keeping a secret hobby or activity to myself. Sometimes, it's because talking about it can feel embarrassing or I'm not sure how others will react. For some reason gambling addiction.

Telling someone about gambling is definitely out of the picture, because this might ruined our reputation. Like me, I'm not open with my gambling activities to anyone except with my colleagues, ensuring they also anticipate in the system. Telling someone about winnings in the system will only bring more eyes on you, and people will destroy what they know about and they will never have knowledge about one's plans, only if we keep everything mute. Most people always keep the activities they anticipated in lowkey because that's the appropriate way to lived.

This condition was different to every gamblers,Some had the friendly environment in their family and relations circle.So such gambler can share their gambling habit to their family and relations circle.If the gambler is from the middle class family,it’s better to hide your gambling habit to everyone.Because they will start to blame you for the money using on the gambling.So also don’t ask the loan in the emergency with your friends,they will thought you ask him loan for the gambling game.It’s better to play with your own money,because your friends use loan chance to blame you.If you used your money,they can’t blame you for the game.

maybe one day you will find a long story about my life in gambling and the conclusion is that I am always open with my family and especially my own wife. and not only that, my parents also know about my gambling activities because in the past before I got married I was a gambler who was crazy about gambling but they (my family) always hid about my bad things in the past and until now they all know about my activities.

the reason I dont hide this activity with my family is because for me the family is the most important person in everything, they remain family who will help with any problems and will maintain confidentiality which is not appropriate to tell and I dont have full trust in people out there like friends or companions because they will only be good when there are no problems, but when they have a problem, evil will be spread, including gambling activities.
so there is no other reason to keep my gambling a secret from others and be open with my family.

there are many negative impacts of hiding gambling activities from family and there are also many benefits when we open up about our gambling activities to family and I dont need to repeat myself. I have explained above and what is more important is that family is the most important part of life when you are in trouble or difficulty only those who want to help you kindly without asking for anything in return. maybe for the first time your family will be angry but if you tell them honestly that you only gamble with small amounts maybe your family will understand and allow it.

Even though you don't have to stop, the most important thing is to be able to maintain your gambling activities well and also safe from your family. I also have a family that is against online and offline gambling, especially my wife who is very religious.
So I only gamble when I'm outside the house drinking a cup of coffee, and I rarely gamble at home because I have a son who is not even two years old. And he is very close to me when I am at home, so I often do it outside the house and that too on weekends.
It is very difficult if we still like to gamble amidst unsupportive family conditions, so we have to be very careful. And I also know my limits in gambling and always use money that I can afford to lose, and I can also stop at any time if I want because I am also not an active gambler.

it will also be the cause of quarrels when someone in your family knows you are playing casino online. it could be a big problem that you might as well just stop before they catch you doing it. but just like many of us we are so invested in gambling, that we can't just wake up one day and stop.

while my family is not really opposed to gambling.  i would rather not let them know because they might just think i have a ton of money to waste. and if one day i ask help them financially, they might think i lost my money due to my casino activity online.

I dont think gambling habit is a thing that need to be a secret. for me, it's just a private fun that we dont need to tell to anyone, because it's a thing that can shape our mood. the fact that no gambler wins every day won't make our day feels good when people around us know we lost gambling. people tend to mock losers, that create bad atmosphere around us.

gambling habit is also not something to be proud of, no reason for it. Luck just gives us happiness, but not pride, because that's not a thing we achieve with a capability. eventhough many people make proud of their luck, but it's substantially not pride.

I always try to keep my gambling habit hidden because I live in a conservative family where everyone is religious and in this religious conservative family gambling will never be accepted. Moreover, I have small children, if they see their father's gambling activities, then a kind of curiosity will arise in them, and from that curiosity, the small children will develop an addiction to gambling. Also I have many primary level children around my house and I always try to stay away from them and I don't enter gambling sites in front of them during the day. I try to avoid gambling and casinos at all times considering the overall condition of small children.

But many do feel ashamed about their gambling habit, even if they are adults. In the first place, gambling is something not to be brag about or announced to anyone you know, maybe just to your trusted and close friends. The root cause is the stereotyping created by many people or the crowd; they think that gambling is illegal and bad, but the ones who create that description are the people who do it; there is no gambling addict if those people control themselves; there are no crimes related to gambling if they discipline themselves; in short, the people themselves are the reason why gambling is being categorised as an illegal or bad habit. Well, we can't please all people, so if you don't want to be judged, then it's better to hide it as I said gambling habit is something not to brag, keep it low and keep it safe.

Yeah right, even there's no direct impact to your personal life as individual those words behind your back can affect you emotionally, and like what you mentioned in gambling there are many opinion about how luck take place, supernatural believe that may prevent you from winning that's why a gambler choose to keep his gambling participation as secret as it could be, to make sure that there's no bad omen that will prevent the potential win.

If it's related to traditional beliefs, we can't relate to anything because they will easily judge gamblers by giving bad opinions, so maybe that's why there are still many gamblers who hide their gambling activities from other people because they don't want to get these bad opinions. They tend to choose to keep their gambling activities hidden from other people, even their own family members because they feel more comfortable doing so. They will also not experience a lack of self-confidence when hanging out with their friends because they are completely unaware of their gambling activities. Indeed, when they choose to hide their gambling activities, they must have better self-control so they don't experience any problems while gambling.

Yes, that's true. His family won't know what the problem is until a family member goes beyond his limits in gambling and becomes addicted to gambling because he has hidden his gambling activities from his family. This requires awareness for him to admit to his family that he has a gambling problem and needs help from his family. However, a gambling addict may still hide his gambling activities from his family and think he is still fine. But if he is willing to admit his gambling addiction in front of his family and ask for help, he might be able to get help from his family soon so he can overcome his problem.