Topic: Lies told to cover up gambling habit - page 16. (Read 2332 times)

No no, I have not told any lie before to gamble. Whenever i gamble, I am open about it and i face no judgement from anyone, maybe because they trust me enough to still gamble with a high level of consciousness where no one gets hurt. I am not a regular gambler, but whenever I gamble,  I do not hide my gambling activity from anyone because I am confident that my gambling activity will not be a threat to myself and the family's income.

 Having a family is all about being open to each other, your family and friends should be aware of what you are up to (especially as it involves gambling) so they will know how to help and relate with you when things go wrong. It is not actually safe hiding your gambling activities from your partner, where is the fun in hiding? A healthy gambling lifestyle can be encouraged where the entire family (excluding children) gamble together on a strict budget. When everyone is involved and honest to each other, it will be difficult for one party to go beyond his limit.

Hiding something isnt that bad yet there are things which you are really just that tending to avoid for you not to make out some kind of argumentation specially if your partner is really that against with gambling
then you would definitely be considering on trying out to avoid but on the time that you are already keeping it on the exaggerated manner on which locking yourself on the CR just because you've been dealing up with something in correlated with gambling or some sort then this is really that showing that kind of addiction but not really that much but as you do go far ahead then you would really be going into that path.
If you are already that doing something like this and other possible hiding behavior then sooner or later your partner would really be catching you up and its better to make yourself that trying out
slowly tell your partner about it so that you wont really be having that kind of hiding for the rest of your life.

Lucking yourself in a room because you want to gamble so that other people close to you will not know what you are doing is a kind of getting addicted slowly, and lieing is not also exempted. Sometimes people lie for a reason though either to protect themselves or others from getting hot.
I also thought so, if the gambler didn't enjoyed being close to his wife he wouldn't have said what he said to his wife but I still have a doubt that the love he has for gamble is the same he has for his wife. Exactly, your partner is not supposed to know everything but 95% of what's happening is what she's supposed to be aware of.

Naah Naah, honestly, even if my wife will like it, I personally will not want her to get near anything gambling, I am an introvert and like to do many things alone, in fact, I enjoy doing almost every thing I do, alone, except when we are watching a movie or we go out on a date, even when I choose to do the cooking, and she comes around to help, normally, that should be fun right? But I see that as disturbance and would possibly abandon the cooking for her to do if she refuse to leave me alone, this is the kind of person I am.

But then, on the other, my wife is not a gambling person at all, in fact, she hate gamblers with passion, she's one of this who peceive gamblers are irresponsible people, it's the reason why I've never allowed her to get to know of my involvement in gambling, she will be heart broken if she ever learn that I go gamble.
Many a times I've lost money in business and told her, when she learns that I gamble, she may turn around to accuse me of losing those money to gambling and lying to her that I lost the money in business, that exactly the kind of person she is, and not like I can't make her change that perspective or attitude if I want to, If I really wanted to, I can present gambling to her in a way that she will think that I just decided to start gambling and want to carry her along, I can do that and I bet she will like it, but nah, doing that will end up ruining my gambling peace of mind.
Lol.

We all lie for a reason; either to protect ourselves or protect other people from getting hurt. On the given example that the man lied on his fvorite time, it is subjective in the first place. There is a whole lot of definition for enjoyment and that might just confused him with his favorite moment, I assume that he enjoys both of it, still. I did the same thing before but on a different extent. I was asked if I am gambling or engaging to such activities by my girlfriend and I lied saying no. Not to gaslight but I think it is a personal thing. As long as you are not being problematic and still in control of your habits, then things are fine still to hide it for your own reason. Even with partners there are things you keep private from one another simply because you two still have different lives.

No I haven’t lied to anybody like that before.

Your story and the other guy’s tweet are pretty awful imo. I don’t know if you are still gambling like that but you should probably seek professional help. The other guy on twitter too. I see no difference between your story and locking yourself in a room and drink alcohol/smoking. See how it looks now? That’s what we call “having an addiction”

If gambling prevents you from doing your daily duties then gambling is not a fun event for you anymore. It became an addiction and it needs to be treated.

But how about you and your wife to gamble together if you have the time so that you can know when to stop by encouraging yourselves and telling yourselves the amount of money that is small that you should use to gamble. I noticed some people on this forum always say something like they are hiding their gambling activities from their partners but not everyone. If it is done wisely and responsibly, a woman can easily be convinced. But some people can be afraid of their wife not to get addicted also.

Hi gamblers, greetings to everyone..

So today, I was scrolling through my reddit feed, and I came across this post in the screenshot I share below..


After reading that post, I quickly remembered what I did some years back when I was still pretty much new to gambling and was kind of obsessed with it at that time, I remember it was on Sunday late morning after we came back from church, I darely needed to play some gambling game, but the children were running around the house making lots of noise, the little one will not stop climbing me, we've already had breakfast and my wife was busy watching a movie.
I left her and the children in the sitting room, took my phone and laptop and went into our third room reserved for visitors and locked myself in there, and started gambling, I was playing slot and casino games, and in between, I was also analyzing some upcoming sports matches to find suitable ones to place bet on.

More than 1 hour later, my wife came looking for me, and possibly was surprised i locked myself in the guest room, she inquired to know why, I told her I was studying some very important course online, and needed no disturbance at all, that was why I went to the guest room, she stood there, whether she believed or not, I do not know, I just know that she went her way after some seconds 😂😂.

So, when I came across that post on reddit, I couldn't help but laugh really hard, and also imagined how many of us gamblers out there are telling one lie or the other just to cover up our gambling habit..

I have a friend who lost a huge amount of money to gambling, and returning home that night, he lied to his wife that he was robbed, when the woman (being suspecious) asked why he was not beaten by the robbers, he got angry at her and almost beat her that night 🤣.

Have you told any gambling related lie before? Please share, let's read and have fun.