Find out more about the Victorian Responsible Gambling Foundation.
Resources to help professionals identify problem gambling clients and respond to their needs.
Partners
Being with someone with problem gambling can be a difficult and lonely experience. This is a place for partners - wives, husbands, de factos, boyfriends and girlfriends - to share their experiences.
Anonymous
16 December 2010
if my partner is trying to quit gambling (on horses), should he / I / we ask his friends to stop sending "hot tips" though? or will this make him feel isolated?
Anonymous
07 December 2010
My mum has been gambling on pokies for the last 12 years. She was introduced to the pokies by a friend as entertainment when she first went there.
Anonymous
03 December 2010
When I met my boyfriend he told me straight up that he had had a gambling problem in the past but he had it under control now.
Anonymous
25 October 2010
I love my boyfriend. He knows he has a problem, and rang me on saturday night saying he lost money. I wouldnt even think about leaving him.
Anonymous
06 October 2010
My husband has always had a gambling problem, and just before we left the UK last year it got so bad that we were about to lose our house, I sold my car, he took the money and gambled it...
Mitzi
12 July 2010
My husband and I have started counselling to try to alleviate the damage that gambling has caused our relationship.
crystal castle
24 June 2010
Twenty years of marriage - finally one lie too many - the love and passion of his life is gambling - I am shattered and shredded - will his love and passion keep him warm at night, care for him, pay h
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