Hi Mike
The reward for being gamble-free is to be free, to be in control, to be the man you want to be – and you have the tools to do it.
With Friday coming up, plan to do something that could make you happy, something that perhaps you haven’t done before. Find a place of safety for you that has no connection to gambling whatever. Do you like animals, do you like walking, what have you admired in others and felt that maybe you couldn’t do? Freedom from an addiction will allow you time to experience new pleasures and tackle the things you felt were out of reach.
Hang in there Mike, I am lucky enough to have known many like you who have turned their lives around – some still post, many no longer post but are living gamble-free.
If I thought for one second that it was not within your power to change your life I wouldn’t be here.
I will look for your posts every day and note your progress, I hope you will tell me your achievements, your victories.
Keep posting, use our groups and Helpline, just keep talking, you are being heard.
Velvet