Hi and welcome to the Forum. You say you are ahead overall but you just finished paying back a loan to your girlfriend and you lost your vacation money. That doesn’t sound very far ahead. When we can no longer stay within set limits, time, amount etc we begin to lose too much time, energy and eventually money. It sucks everything out of us and we are playing games to cover losses and “reinvesting winnings” so that there are nothing left but losses and in the end a big fat zero. Software blockers do help some and may be worth the small investment. Leaving yourself access to large amounts of money is likely a ticking time bomb. Perhaps a joint savings account with your girlfriend? or Cut up credit cards if you use those to gamble. We need to really put things in place that slow us down and provide us time to remember that we don’t want to gamble and all of the reasons why. Starting with your own sanity. I hope you are still with us. Here is a good place to write and keep yourself accountable. Take care,
Laura
