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It is true that the big disadvantage of gambling is losing a lot of time with our family or loved ones. Gambling enthusiasts only think about how to get money from winning gambling matches and return the money they have spent in losing. In fact, it is not uncommon for us to meet gambling enthusiasts who are willing to leave their families just for what they say is to have fun and earn money.
However, when they start to realize that they are very depressed, no one cares about them anymore because their relationship has just been thrown away. they think no one cares about their situation, even though they themselves have thrown it all away.
Not only do we lose a lot of time with our family or loved ones, but we also have the opportunity to lose the money we have, and even if it gets serious, we can lose the things we have along with losing the people we love. They will not be able to see us as before, who really loved them, but they will see us as gamblers who are more concerned with gambling than them. If we don't realize it, we will really lose everything we have, and even though we can win, it will be meaningless if we lose everything we have, including the people we love. We won't be able to repair that relationship because everything has fallen apart because of what we did, which was our biggest mistake. When we are down and have lost everything, we can regret our actions, but it may be too late because they are long gone.
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Getting your point, as the time you spend with your gambling will be the time that you lost since you are very focus with gambling and forget about those people around you, it's hard to repair a relationship if you are already engage too much with gambling, there's nothing inside your mind aside from how will you please your desire for gambling.
I think the only possible way is to completely quit with your will and make sure not to think about it anymore, after that, when everything already fresh, you can try to work out with your relationship and spend all your time to accomplish your will to repair everything.
That's what we will experience if we play gambling for too long because we will be too busy to forget our relationships with people close to us and also not be able to see what has changed about ourselves. Playing gambling should be a fun activity and not cause problems, but because we use it too seriously and for too long, it makes us experience relationship problems with the people closest to us. This must end immediately because if not, we will really lose people close to us and the relationship will be damaged because we gamble too much.
Only by stopping gambling can we avoid thinking about gambling so that we can try to repair our disturbed relationships. Maybe it also takes time to repair the relationship but we have to try especially if we can show those close to us that we have really stopped gambling. They will believe it especially when they can see that we have really stopped gambling and there is the intention and desire to make that change.
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Gambling often times is stressful and could derail a gambler's brain power to reason in a smart way. Most gamblers we've came across misbehaving were not gamblers, but the moment they began gambling they abused the rules of the game. Not sure they knew the rules. They only played gambling without any orientation or research about the need to gamble. Many of them gambled because of peer influence, and after multiple years of engaging in gambling, they can't stay a day without gambling. Some of which does not stop after being cured of addiction, still gamble, but limits it. Hence, I'd say that those gamblers only begin to learn about gambling after they've been cured of their problem gambling. Then those who followed the rules of gambling and still got addicted where actually not giving the brain a break to rest. Thereby overworking themselves to the point their thoughts wasn't conducive for gambling.
Gambling can make us stressed because we will experience loss and perhaps even experience loss more often. But if we can avoid experiencing a lot of losses by implementing restrictions on our gambling, we can avoid that stress and can even enjoy gambling. Gamblers who behave badly don't know how to treat gambling because all they have in mind is how they can win from it. They are the ones who will experience serious problems in gambling, and they will have difficulty finding solutions because they have gone too far in gambling without being able to get out of gambling easily. But if they were able to treat gambling well from the start by not using a lot of money and also being able to control themselves and set limits and follow them, they would not have difficulty using gambling to get pleasure from it.