Hi Rs
I wanted to add a post as well as giving you our official welcome because of the strength of feeling you have towards your wife.
I was wondering if your wife would like to join the F&F forum on this site where she will be met with understanding and support. I know how difficult it is to share one’s thoughts when someone lives with a CG (compulsive gambler). Loyalty, fear and unnecessary shame all contribute to F&F keeping things bottled up inside but in time such thoughts and emotions can implode with devastating consequences.
I believe that when couples use the site it is good if neither reads the others posts because all recoveries are different and being able to say how you really feel is often only possible when it is said privately. To that end also there is a Friends and Family group which is completely private and facilitated for F&F only and where nothing said in the group appears on the forum – your wife would be very welcome. The F&F group is on Tuesday between 20.00-21.00 hours UK time.
It is because I know that the addition to gamble can be controlled that I am here writing to you. I believe you have reached a good place by posting here where ‘you’ are understood and I hope you will continue to post and join the facilitated CG groups.
I wish you well
Velvet
