Yes, your situation is difficult. I also cashed in a very small four figure pension to gamble in january17 when I could not gambling, the longer the better.
Throughout my life Sherrie with two main. partners, I have always been the breadwinner with the man staying at home with the kids, cooking and cleaning. I am worse than hopeless wth domestic chores even now. This also weighed heavily on me, but not as heavy as when I started earning large amounts of money for just a short time in my 50s. I even had a vision board with me winning a fortune on it. But ihave torn to hat up now and thrown it away. First, has to be your health and maintaining your income. As they say in GA, we can’t tackle all of our life problems at once. I expect you may well be feeling depressed. When our negative emotions turn inward we become ill. Gambling is never going to take our problems away and will only ever make them worse Sherrie. A big win will not solve our life problems. We have to tackle why we are using gambling to escape.
My brother in law has copd and this Xmas he had an exacerbation. It was scary to see. I suspect with my lifelong smoking I probably have it too. Once I have gambling under control and my life is to as destitute as it is now, smoking will be tackled. But it can only be one day at a time. You have a home, your husband is alive, you have a job. ***** your blessings Sherrie because your position is better than mine. My home has been under threat of repossession, I have no job and no partner. It can get better Sherrie. But you have to really want it to. Doyou?