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My father is always gambling, and my mother is constantly rambling about how gambling has taken over my dad’s mind, how he’s addicted to it. I was just wondering whether my mom could be right about this. If there is such a thing as gambling addiction and can this be treated?

my mom is an ex drug addict. i got her off crack about a year ago, but since then she has been depleting my grandpa and me money. goes through about 40 dollars a day on scratch offs. please dont reply with gambling rehab because she will not make it through. she is very delicate and takes things the wrong way. she is manic depressant and bipolar. I love her to death but she is slowly dwindling our money away. i think she does this because she gets bored, is there something we can buy her that can replace this addiction with something that could help her.
thank you for the answers, is there any good addictions other than religion though?

My mother has been gambling for about 2 years now. Compulsively. She has lost a lot of money and my step father is on the verge of a nervous breakdown. The last binge was a few days ago. Before that it was 3 months ago and he filed for divorce. She manipulated him so that he stayed. Now, he is thinking that he will try to press forgery charges against her. I have been tramatized by this. She has missed out on my birthdays, told me she doesn’t have an addiction, screams at me..I have tried not talking to her for months on end, sympathizing, screaming, cutting her out of my life. I have just ended up hurt and depressed. I honestly don’t know how to handle it. She drinks, does prescription drugs..Cutting her out of my life seems to help but it really hurts me. I feel abandoned and she places blame on me for her actions. I’ve been in counseling for this for a year now. Do I cut her out? She will probably end up going to jail and that is really sad for me. I’m so confused, hurt and angry.
I’m actually 27 and happily married, so as an adult I feel like should be able to handle this better.
My step dad has taken her name off all the accounts and she doesn’t have access to any money. What she’s been doing is forging checks in his name and also getting credit cards without him knowing about it. He travels for work about half the month so she is home alone alot. He doesn’t have any idea about the debt she has. She says that she’s disclosed it all to him, but I seriously doubt that.

My mother has a gambling problem. She thinks she doesn’t have a problem, but she does. She goes to casinos by herself and with her friends. On Thursday, my mother and I had our most likely the biggest fight.

She just came from work that day and she saw dishes in the sink. She was really pissed. Her friend called her and just said hi and all. But while she was talking to her friends, she said things like I and my sister didn’t like. I mean we accept that she’s mad about the dishes and that she’s tired from work (she reminds that us everyday), but the way she talked with her friend was so hurtful that she almost didn’t want to have given birth to us. I mean like she said she wishes my sisters and I were never born.

It was so sad. Our own mother kept putting us down to her friend on the phone, like we’re useless and like she regrets having us.

My mom acts like she’s a teenager. I don’t know what I’d do with her. My dad can’t do anything. I’m always the one who argues with her about her gambling addiction. Our life is down the drain because of her and she knows it, but she still won’t stop.

She’s in a casino again right now. I haven’t talked to her since Thursday. I don’t think I can forgive her yet. She slapped me so many times that day that my lips bled. I was crying.

Just so you know I’m 20 yrs old. And I attend a university and I live at home. I pretty much don’t have a choice but to suck it up. I don’t know if I can tolerate my mother.

What would you do in my situation?

My family lives a very stressful, chaotic life. my mom is a landlord or landlady and basically stays at home when no one has any complaints about the apartments. my dad has a bicycle shop business and it caught fire and burnt down a few months ago so now he just fixes things at the apartments if something happens. i have a 4.0, piano lessons, voice lessons, and i’ve finally realized that i have ednos or eating disorder not otherwise specified (which is basically anorexia, bulimia, and binge disorder all mixed into one). i have moderate depression and no one knows about my eating disorder. and my sister seems to be a little depressed as well (my parents tell us that they’ll only love us if we’re good and behave well)
my life is so chaotic right now, i just can’t deal with anymore! and i feel like nothing is going right and everythings just one big mess and to top things off, my mom has been losing money gambling and she tells us that she wins all the time and in denial of her addictio
She’s always asking to borrow money. Is angry and irritable when she loses. Tells us that shes somewhere else when shes really at the casino. She’s cold and distant. Shes always bragging about winning and being so lucky and gets mad when i confront her about her gambling. She has absolutely no hobbies but going to the casino, watching TV, and playing internet games. Gets really mad when I ask her where she is. She keeps telling me she has control and when she loses a certain amount of money she leaves the casino but i honestly really doubt that. it tearing our family apart even though we really weren’t close to begin with
She’s always asking to borrow money. Is angry and irritable when she loses. Tells us that shes somewhere else when shes really at the casino. She’s cold and distant. Shes always bragging about winning and being so lucky and gets mad when i confront her about her gambling. She has absolutely no hobbies but going to the casino, watching TV, and playing internet games. Gets really mad when I ask her where she is. She keeps telling me she has control and when she loses a certain amount of money she leaves the casino but i honestly really doubt that. it tearing our family apart even though we really weren’t close to begin with

My family lives a very stressful, chaotic life. my mom is a landlord or landlady and basically stays at home when no one has any complaints about the apartments. my dad has a bicycle shop business and it caught fire and burnt down a few months ago so now he just fixes things at the apartments if something happens. i have a 4.0, piano lessons, voice lessons, and i’ve finally realized that i have ednos or eating disorder not otherwise specified (which is basically anorexia, bulimia, and binge disorder all mixed into one). i have moderate depression and no one knows about my eating disorder. and my sister seems to be a little depressed as well (my parents tell us that they’ll only love us if we’re good and behave well)
my life is so chaotic right now, i just can’t deal with anymore! and i feel like nothing is going right and everythings just one big mess and to top things off, my mom has been losing money gambling and she tells us that she wins all the time and in denial of her addictio
She’s always asking to borrow money. Is angry and irritable when she loses. Tells us that shes somewhere else when shes really at the casino. She’s cold and distant. Shes always bragging about winning and being so lucky and gets mad when i confront her about her gambling. She has absolutely no hobbies but going to the casino, watching TV, and playing internet games. Gets really mad when I ask her where she is. She keeps telling me she has control and when she loses a certain amount of money she leaves the casino but i honestly really doubt that. it tearing our family apart even though we really weren’t close to begin with
She’s always asking to borrow money. Is angry and irritable when she loses. Tells us that shes somewhere else when shes really at the casino. She’s cold and distant. Shes always bragging about winning and being so lucky and gets mad when i confront her about her gambling. She has absolutely no hobbies but going to the casino, watching TV, and playing internet games. Gets really mad when I ask her where she is. She keeps telling me she has control and when she loses a certain amount of money she leaves the casino but i honestly really doubt that. it tearing our family apart even though we really weren’t close to begin with

My family lives a very stressful, chaotic life. my mom is a landlord or landlady and basically stays at home when no one has any complaints about the apartments. my dad has a bicycle shop business and it caught fire and burnt down a few months ago so now he just fixes things at the apartments if something happens. i have a 4.0, piano lessons, voice lessons, and i’ve finally realized that i have ednos or eating disorder not otherwise specified (which is basically anorexia, bulimia, and binge disorder all mixed into one). i have moderate depression and no one knows about my eating disorder. and my sister seems to be a little depressed as well (my parents tell us that they’ll only love us if we’re good and behave well)
my life is so chaotic right now, i just can’t deal with anymore! and i feel like nothing is going right and everythings just one big mess and to top things off, my mom has been losing money gambling and she tells us that she wins all the time and in denial of her addictio
She’s always asking to borrow money. Is angry and irritable when she loses. Tells us that shes somewhere else when shes really at the casino. She’s cold and distant. Shes always bragging about winning and being so lucky and gets mad when i confront her about her gambling. She has absolutely no hobbies but going to the casino, watching TV, and playing internet games. Gets really mad when I ask her where she is. She keeps telling me she has control and when she loses a certain amount of money she leaves the casino but i honestly really doubt that. it tearing our family apart even though we really weren’t close to begin with
She’s always asking to borrow money. Is angry and irritable when she loses. Tells us that shes somewhere else when shes really at the casino. She’s cold and distant. Shes always bragging about winning and being so lucky and gets mad when i confront her about her gambling. She has absolutely no hobbies but going to the casino, watching TV, and playing internet games. Gets really mad when I ask her where she is. She keeps telling me she has control and when she loses a certain amount of money she leaves the casino but i honestly really doubt that. it tearing our family apart even though we really weren’t close to begin with

my mother is a compulsive gambler. she can go gambling 12-20 hours straight. she always tell me that she know what she is doing. Everytime she goes to the casino Im always worried of how much she will be loosing since we do not have a liquid funding. She is not contented with one slot machine but more. She have been borrowing money from the financiers. Once I caught her lie to me that she is not in the casino. I want to talk to her but my worries is that in this process my family will be broken and my mother will be mad at my wife since most of the information I have came from wife because her family goes to the casino also for fun but not addicted to gambling.They are concerned with my moms addiction t gambling. please help me

I need to break all ties with my mother and sister, but due to my mothers age and health I feel guilty. As a child my mother was very physically abusive and mentally. She plays one sibling against another, she loves to make you feel guilty. My mother is 73 years old and I am 52 and she is still controlling my life. She complains that she is in constant pain, but will go to bingo or the casino every chance she gets. I can’t take anymore of her complaining about how broke she is, and that she is lonely and bored and that is why she gambles so much. Everything is about her, it always was. My sister is also addicted to gambling and comes to me for money to pay her rent or car payment. How do I back away without the guilt driving me crazy. I really need help! I am giving serious thought to moving as far away as possible to avoid them, but my husband cannot just up and quit his job and I have my beautiful children and grandchildren to think about. My husband hates my mother and sister, he thinks they are self serving and I agree. I just cannot listen to anymore poor me, they are doing nothing to help themselves.

She lied about her living situation and receives food stamps. She lives with her boyfriend of 17 years (her 2 kids’ father-not mine) and he works as well, mowing lawns. She didn’t report that.
She drives 80+ miles round trip 3-5 times a week to go gambling.
She works as a waitress, so I don’t understand where she gets all this money.
When she’s home, she’s either online gambling (using real money), watching poker tournaments on T.V., or whining and moping because she couldn’t go gambling that day.
Every conversation with her includes something about money and gambling.
She rents a house and has 2 kids to support. She just kicked my 16 y/o sister out of the house – she’s a typical teen that back talks and doesn’t want to follow all the rules, but mom has mental issues and says horrible things and becomes physically violent with sister.
If anyone mentions anything about her gambling problem, she gets real mad.
My mother’s excuses are that it’s her money and she can do whatever she wants with it. But my view is she needs to make sure her bills are paid first and she has groceries for kids before blowing her $ on gambling.
Their phone and cable always get disconnected for periods of time.
I almost want to turn her in to welfare for fraud – how is it right for her to get food stamps, when she spends at LEAST $400 a month gambling -probably way more when you figure gas and online spending?
Honestly, it’s not my buisness, but I feel bad for my sister getting kicked out and want mother to take responsibility for her daughter.
My sis called me at 3 am last night begging me to come pick her up from her boyfriend’s house, because he had beaten her up. She has nowhere to go but here at my house. I will not be able to financially support her. I have 2 kids of my own and literally live paycheck to paycheck. I don’t get any gov’t assistance or blow my $ on addictions.

What can we do? Could my mom get into legal trouble for kicking my 16 y/o sister out of the house? Sister’s never been arrested but did recently drop out of school-with mother’s consent. Was in the process of getting GED before getting kicked out.

I know this is way too long and I apologize, but if you made it this far, thanks for reading and please offer any advice you feel may help. Thanks.

It can’t be made any year after 2004.
A woman sells her son’s bike for money to gamble with.
What is the name of it?

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?

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