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“But just recently, he told me that he’d started gambling again because he thought he could make more money in preparation for our wedding and the baby,” she explained.
“He wanted to double or triple what he already had but he ended up losing everything. And now his desire to gamble and win is so strong because he wants to “get his money back”. And I’ve been telling him to just let it go and start saving again.”
“We’ve had so many conversations about starting over, supporting him and stuff, but he can’t stop.”
“He’s so stressed out about his losses and it stresses me out too. He’s gone back to his counselor, but it doesn’t seem to be helping.”
She’s pretty positive at this point that going to rehab is the only choice left for her fiancé, but they simply don’t have the money to send him there, considering they have a baby on the way.
Insurance is refusing to cover the costs of her fiancé attending rehab, and so she’s lost. She’s tired, and she’s upset.
“I do truly love him, but I don’t know how much longer I can deal with this,” she said. “Every time he gambles and loses, he cries to me and apologizes and says he won’t do it again, but he ends up doing it again anyway.”
“I keep telling him to fight the urge, but I know it won’t do anything for him because he can’t fight it. I know addiction is a sickness, but we literally cannot afford it at the moment.”
She’s left wondering if it’s time to call off the wedding or continue on with the wedding and just deal with this.
She won’t leave her fiancé, because she’s all that he has and his family does encourage his gambling.
“And I know he loves me and the baby very much because I can feel it,” she concluded. “He’s a good person, it just so happened that he has a gambling problem.”
