“………. Maybe next year, i’ll be strong enough not to go with my girlfriends. I don’t know. ………”
Hi Ican, well done on getting right back here.
Why not talk to your friends now while you are hurting? Tell them you have decided to stop gambling. Tell them you know it’ll be hard and ask them, as friends, not to invite you on their gambling trip next year? Ask them not even to tell you when they are going?
Then, well you will know.
As they are your friends I’m sure they will do as you ask and I’m also sure that there are plenty of non gambling related things you can do with them at other times.
Keep posting and try and put as many things in place now, while you are hurting. We all know the pain fades and then it’s harder.