As you reflect on the chain of events that led you to gamble, IDI, may I be so bold as to add two comments.
1. You were not doing your mum any favour by going with her. You succumbed to her manipulation.
2. What plan can you make that will create a different situation on your next visit home?
Could you arrange your mum to come and visit you for weekends and perhaps help her to break the pattern of gambling when you both get together?
I know how difficult it is to change family traditions especially around Christmas.
Your mum is enabling you to gamble because she needs your enablement (even permission) to go!
Quite a complex situation for all concerned.
No easy answers.
A young man in GA discussed similar problems over the years. He was helpless….lo and behold an elderly lady turned up in a totally different Room one night. It was his mother!
Life can be full of surprises.
“When I change , everything changes”!!
