How to deal with a mother who is addicted to Gambling?????????????
March 14th, 2010
My father passed away in 2005. My mother recieved death benefits from him in the sum of close to 70,000. She gave 5,000 to us because my B/F bought a home in the country for our family and her. My boyfriend Co-signed a loan for her to get a new car, however we soon found out she was spending about 1200 sometimes more a week at bingo. So I made her pay off the car before she was broke. And we also paid off all her credit cards. She went through 50,000 in 5 months at bingo. After she spent all that money now she went and took 3 or 4 seperate loans out on her car and spends that money on bingo. She also got some credit cards and has them maxed out. I have tried several time to talk to her but she doesn’t listen. Last night she went to bingo and won 1100.00 but she put it back into bingo with rip offs and left that night with 40.00. What should I do and where can I get help for her?
You probably should talk with professional help. I would consider talking with a psychiatrist about methods you can use to help her.
Gambling is a bad addiction for those who can’t control it. I was born to figure out how to beat the game of gambling and because of it, I am up.
I realize this and have seen some of those compulsive gamblers every day when i am at the casino along with others that i know of.
Your best bet, is to talk with someone who may help the situation. For now, talk with a doctor and they can help come up with a plan when you can give more details to him/her.
My mother and her sisters and brothers all gamble, and I was told that they raised their kids so that they can gamble any time they want and that is there enjoyment or pass time, they are addicted to those scratch offs pretty bad, constantly all day, now instead of playing cards they actually buy a butch of scratch offs
and sit there and scratch and all you hear is oh, oh, I need one more all those silly noises and laughs the stories of if I would of won.
In your best interest seek professional help for all of you to understand and help her.
But anyway maybe you should tell her about that bingo game at home that is on TV that plays on Friday night, just print the bingo sheet out and maybe she can play at home for free.
She needs you to intervene and get her counseling. Check out http://www.gamblersanonymous.org and bring her to a meeting.
Bingo can be fun and relaxing for people if they keep it to $20-$50 per night and if they are informed of how much the house is keeping and know how to relate that to their odds.
If the house takes 30% and you buy three $5 cards then you theoretically have only spent $10 not $15. Over the long run you will get back $10 out of every $15 you spend whether or not you win that night…Maybe she just doesn’t know how much the house is taking….