[eg123]

I am starting again. I just self excluded from a site I found after self excluding from so many over the years. I don’t have much to say but I am glad I have managed to post – I’ve been back on the site a lot looking at threads but unable to write. I have been gambling off and on for another two years after my last post here. But I want to stop. My life is impossible with gambling – I lurch from one self-induced crisis to the next and never get to actually live.
Anyway, I hope to post often and keep it touch – it worked before and I know it can be done.This can be done and life is there for all of us!

[eg123]

Another Monday!
In college at the moment so quick post. Still surviving but really tempted to gamble – I find it so hard to let the money go!!
And that back window is still open. I will know today or tomorrow (or Wed!) if I have gotten a bonus from the tournament I was in – and have asked a friend to withdraw it from my account and then close the account. That should make life a lot easier!
Anyway, on with Day 10!!This can be done and life is there for all of us!

[paul315]

Originally posted by eg123
… I find it so hard to let the money go!! …
This can be done and life is there for all of us!
Good morning EG,
Well done on your 10 Days being gambling free, on your not letting go of not just your money, but of what you have gained my being gambling free. We need the gambling free time to make the changes that will keep us gambling free; interrupting this quality time only strengthens the addiction as it attack our desires and resolve. Recovery works if you work it, it don’t if your wont.
I realize that your statement, "I find it so hard to let the money go!!", is pertaining to you letting go your losses, but it is hard to understand how you are so unwilling to let go of money that is already gone, yet insist of letting go of the money you have in hand by gambling it away also.  When we stop gambling, stop chasing losses, stop throwing away even more money in futile attempts to have some money, we find that it is more productive to work for the money we need, and more logical to accept the fact that when the gambling stops that the amount of money we have will increase. This can be done.
Keep working on your recovery, and working for your dollars, hard work is what will replace the money that the gambling industry now owns; and hard work will return you to a more normal way of thinking and living. Life is there for all of us.
God’s speed. Stay strong. Keep aware. Let go and let God.LarryThanks to my Higher Power, My 3G’s – God, GA, and GT,  "Day Two Is Another Day Behind" and with the help from all , I will continue to remain gambling free.

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