It is easier to say it than do it, gambling addictions are of different levels this you must understand, there are level of addictions that will only take the grace of God for the victim to come out of it, it doesn't matter how many books the victim reads or how many card tricks the individual try to perform in a day, this can not replace the urge to gamble, most especially when the individual involved have easy access to money 💵.
Same with the story of my gambling journey.
More than one year ago I was a serious gambling addict because all the money I earned from work and business was just spent on gambling all the time not only in online casinos but also in street casinos.
I don't care how much money I lose when betting, but as time goes on the business is experiencing a decline in work, a problem occurs which makes me have no money to bet and have to stop gambling immediately in order to keep my family so that I can still be harmonious and financially adequacy.
Since that incident I can think that gambling addiction almost made me lose everything including my family and now I control myself more to gamble, only playing once or twice a week, also with small money.
Yeah, gambling addiction is not a habit anybody should ever pray for, your story is almost similar to a friend of mine, the only difference is that, that of my friend is way worst than yours.
Him and his wife were both working for the same company, at the end of the month when salary is paid, my friend will gamble with almost every thing he got for the month, leaving a very Little amount for feeding, which eventually can not carry him and his wife and children all through the month till the next salary.
What this guys does is, at the middle of the month when he no longer has money to gamble, he will start stealing from his wife's purse to gamble..
At a point, he told me everything and asked me to help him, I told him to just stop, he said he has tried, but just can't help it.
He was still battling with this habit before I traveled out of that state, and eventually, we lost contact with each other, i leant his wife later left him, together with his kids, I just hope he's doing fine now though.