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We all know that being an addicted gambler is a very tough spot in our life, but what if you need to decide what to choose, your addiction or you family? i.e., the given situation will be that you need to decide on the spot if you want to pursue your "career" in gambling or make a good simple life with your family? what will you choose?

The answer is obvious. Of course many (including myself) will choose their family. Gambling is only for fun, I don't call myself as an addicted gambler, so I will probably stop gambling if I get to the point where I need to choose between my family or gambling.

Getting addicted to gambling could be considered as a disease that if we'll not find its cure, we might lose everything we have including our family. As for me, I will choose my family and live a simple life with them. Gambling was originally made to entertain us and not to be our source of income. We can still find a regular job to continue living a happy life with our family instead of choosing to gamble and lose them.

lol i can't possibly find another answer besides choosing family, a family is everything. unless they are acute addictions, of course, they cannot think and control themselves, but when in the end, their lives are destroyed due to addictions they will regret and back to the family. I'm not addicted, but I decided not to gamble anymore and in the end, my life was better.

I think it was fun to take a risk a lot of times and also risk is where we could earn a profit just like a business. We know that it is risky to start a business and we never know if we could make a profit at that but it is all about the risk being a risk-taker make people successful in their career. In my opinion, you could just have your family and at the same time be a disciplined gambler.

Well, that is only natural since our family is the one and only treasure we have. Family won't even become equal to gambling.
It is true, if they take gambling as a source of income or they don't have anything to do aside from gambling and they are totally addicted into it, maybe they will disregard their own family for gambling.

I get your point but you're out of the topic.

You cannot call yourself an addicted gambler if you are playing only just for fun, what I'm trying to point out here is a scenario of an addicted gambler choosing which he will go on, but good for you though, I hope you don't get addicted to it or you'll regret it in the end.


But what if you are earning so much in gambling where you don't have time for your family, to the point where you treated gambling more as your family and you don't care anymore about your real family, what will you choose?

Maybe if ever I have really a passion in gambling then I would pursue it. But it is merely impossible for an individual to spend their lives gambling and risking their money. In the first place they need to have stable income first, their time will not just be focused on gambling at all. Perhaps, they need money to survive. But in a case that you are too rich from a family of rich people, then go ahead, sacrifice your time in family and play as long as they have food to eat and money to live.

I agree, but in my case, I know couple of people who are addicted in playing gambling and they spend most of their time on it, they look so pathetic and I pity them at the same time. They are taking for granted the love that their families giving to them, maybe they are too calm because they think that their family would not leave them because they love them, but no, everyone has their own limitations and so are they.

It is so sad to see addicted gamblers that don't know their limitation in life, we only have one family, and losing one is the real deal than losing money in gambling.

i guess the obvious answer would be choosing a family for me yes but idk on other addicted gamblers because i know that being  addicted means your mind is already not working normally and you can tend to do things that are not right  .

on the past there were addicted gamblers that i heard that choose to become addicted gambler forever and thier case got worst and leads to end thier life and other bad things because they only think about themselves  .

If you reach that point, I suggest visiting a local therapist to consult about your situation. Sooner or later you'll probably fall into depression and feels an emptiness on your heart.

An addicted person would likely choose their habits, in which they are addicted to. There could be numerous reasons why he could be addicted to gambling or any addictive thing in the world, but one main reason is that it includes family. People who have been brought up in an environment where violence is shown, abusiveness, bad words, etc., people tend to look for other comforts. Those comforts lead to the addiction they have now.

There's no "career" in an addicted person because a career should be supporting the well-being of the person, not taking everything from the person. It's best to analyze why the person becomes like that instead of asking "what should you decide on?". It's sufficient that way, IMO.

I think getting addicted in gambling was really hard especially because its envolve money a lot of times, for me as long as your addiction in gambling doesn't affect your family or your financial I think it is all under control but if you are already broke and it's already affecting your family in a way I think this is already a big problem. Surely your family should be your priority and then gambling was just secondary.

Who in the hell will consider gambling as their "CAREER" in life? I don't see anybody who wants to make gambling their career. Even the addicted ones doesn't want to in my opinion.

I think it is obvious already that family is more important than gambling even you are addicted into it. No one will choose gambling over family here :D

Uh let me get this straight. You're assuming you're a gambling addict, and then made to pick a choice family or gambling? Is that correct? Cause, taking this initially, I understood this as you stating gamblers are addicts, which is wrong.

Back to the topic, as an addict I believe most of them would actually choose gambling. They're called addicts for a reason. Even I am not sure that I could choose my family when I turn into an addict (which I won't). ALSO, Gambling addiction isn't a career jeez. Learn the definitions before using them. Made the topic really confusing.

Nope, I didn't say that, in fact I used "what if" term meaning that it is a situational scenario.


That is why I used a quotation (hope you know how it works) on the term "career" because it is not a career, it is just a self-proclaimed careers that gamblers are saying, I guess it is you who should learn things first before you judge a book, thank me later :)

Yes, there are. Professional poker players are good examples. Sports gambling pundits in particular also travel from time to time anywhere around the globe when necessary to catch games, rumors and activities they believe can affect their calls and analysis.

The gambling industry is worth hundreds of billions in dollars. It may be hard to imagine especially to those non-gamblers or casual gamblers but sure there's a lot of careers in the table.

I don't call these professionals as addicts though, it's their passion and they probably earn a living from it.

This may seem a tough question but for me it is an easy one.I don’t think anyone except the Pokerstars tv stars make a career in gambling so I would always choose family over being a gambling addict.Being a gambling addict would not give you anything good in your life so for me it is an easy one to always choose family.

Maybe in a sane condition and not playing we can say that, but if emotions and defeat while gambling maybe the family will be set aside to fulfill any desire will be done.

Im sure no one will choose in addiction over family, whoever choose it is not in normal state of mind and totally out of control to decide which is right or wrong, what can you do with gambling addiction career if you choose it? It will not bring you fortune  and it will result in your life being miserable and homeless if you got bankrupt so threat gambling as an entertainment just for fun not a career.  

Addiction comes in different form, some are addicted to alcohol, some to smoking, some to eating and etc. Addiction only becomes bad when you see your family suffering from your addiction. Therefore first decide what is good for your family and then think whether you addiction is making your family suffer. Then take the right decision.

When you are addicted, you do not have a choice to leave the addiction for the benefit of your family. Addiction is difficult to be cured once you are effected by it.  You should ask this question before you play too much gambling and should understand that if you spend too much time and money on gambling, it will have bad effects not only on yourself but also on your family.

Family of course. It's a no brainer. A more interesting question would be how to make your gambling "addiction" acceptable by your family. Because I don't think I ever want to give up my gambling activity, even after I have my own family.

The first step would be to reduce the level of addiction itself to the level it doesn't become a problem to anyone, including your family. Don't gamble if you don't have excess money. Don't gamble with a big sum.

but if the case is different, when he is addicted and can make a lot of money aka success from gambling, I don't think we will choose both. we can even help the family economy from the success we get.
but if addiction does not earn anything, what must be maintained rather than the family?

Right decision is only one which is to think about your family and not about your interest and addiction to gambling. But I am afraid most people think about gambling more than their families. I have seen a few divorce happening on gambling where the husband spends too much time on gambling ignoring his wife and kids.

Who in the world can make a lot of money from gambling addiction. Almost 99% of the gambling addict are the losers. You cannot expect a win from those who do not have any plan on how much to invest in gambling.

For a better life, the gambling should be limited such that no one in the family and nearby is badly effected by it.

There is only one possible answer to that question and no sane person would or should pick addiction over the love and safety of their family. Addictions are a horrible thing. Those who are addicted, to gambling or anything else, need to seek help as soon as possible before it destroys what is important to them.

In life, we have a different reason for how we handle the decision in life. Today one of the online game platforms is the online gambling it has an advantage and less hassle to the people who want to play online but does not have any time to go outside; many people want to play because it satisfies their selves in by just playing sometimes this is part of their daily routine, gambling is a game with a high risk that either you will win or you will lose your money and reputation if you have a good career in gambling better to continue until you reach your goal. Still, if not better to stop gambling from stopping wasting your money, we need to be practical in life, we need to survive in society. For your better future, it is good if you have stable work and life and play gambling for an additional source not to lose your s.

I have no problem choosing my family because I have no attachment at gambling to the point that it will become my priority, I started gambling that family is my priority and I will keep it that way as long as I can, people become addicted to gambling because they did not establish a commitment to their family, and they end up addicted and all their minds and commitment is to play and win in gambling.

Nobody will choose gambling over a family, if you spend to much time on gambling you will end up in misery, only guy who is out of his mind will choose gambling over his family and there is no such thing as career in gambling, you are going to lose money however you try, only gambling operators can make money on gambling but not a player.

This dilemma comes prior to having a family. But if I were on the shoes of such person, of course, I will be whole heartedly choosing my family over gambling. Sounds easy, right? But sometimes this decisions are quite obvious to answer, because the thing is, your family or your possible wife would not choose you as his husband if you have a background you cannot get rid off.

Bankroll always win yes indeed because its a business but not all gambling places are always win and rich
even many sites that go bankrupt because they can no longer afford to pay the players who managed to win there.
My point is lost or win and luck it's different for each player

I agree, but it looks like most of the people misunderstood the term that I used with a quotation mark on it, I was being sarcastic when I said "career", and of course professional gamblers are not included when I said that, because professional gamblers and amateur gamblers holds different mindset, pro have their passion and amateurs have their greed on it, just pure greed, they do have plan but later fall apart because they lost their money in gambling.

for a non-addicted gambler like me, the question is easy and the answer would be obvious and it is only normal to pick your family. but if you were to ask a chronic
gambler these types of question are probably one of the hardest for them and some of them may even pick their "career" as a gambler than their family. some of
you may think, how can they pick gambling more than their family. for chronic gamblers, gambling is part of their life and losing that is like losing a part of their body
(just like what most addicts feel when being deprived of their addiction).

Only a crazy man would choose gambling over his own family.There are no other things in life that can stay with you for the rest of your life which is your own family, for better or for worst.

Gambling isnt a thing that you should engage on for the rest of your life.This is only good if you do have money but not all would last long yet you can mess up your own life in a short time
specially if you do lost big time.

So if you dont like unfortunate situations then better to think twice on how you should treat up gambling on a moderated way.

Addiction is our choice so choosing to control ouselves to not lile that is also depends on us because we have the right to decide what is wrong and what is right to do that can affect our family lives. I want to have simple family with no financial problem but the reality is not easy because every family needs money so the others gambling their money to change their lives which is better but be wise when using our money because it takes huge risky for our future family needs if the capital lose. We can both have a simple family life while playing woth controlling using money.

That's perfect! If you are in your right mind, I don't think you will choose gambling over your family. But hey, there are addicted gamblers that do prefer gambling over their family and so the ending is bad. Later on, they will regret about their decision. So I guess we are pretty much clear about what to choose for the betterment of your life.

Isn't that obvious? of course, I would still choose my family over gambling I am not some sort of psycho that leaves my family over it. Besides, I am not a gambling addict, I've only played once an in a week and just only for entertainment not to earn a profit. Regarding the given situation, I would still choose my family rather than pursuing a career that could harm my family besides, I could pursue another career that would not be harmful to mental health and to my family.

Gambling at the expense of the family amount to being irresponsible head of the family it is pity that we might have some few gambling addicts who fell to this category of unmindful individuals I hope if they reading these comments they should have a rethink and change their attitude.

I think the family should be our first responsibility and i think this gambling hobbies or addiction should not bother our family,
A career in gambling was not a bad idea as long as you are disciplined enough in your money or not addicted to the point that you don't have money for your family.

Gambling addicts are called addicts for a reason, and addiction could lead you to choosing the bad choices in life. As for me being an addict? Nope. In a just if scenario that i'm an addict? How the hell would I know, I haven't been one, nor could I understand how their mind works. Also OP, learn what "addict" means, and remove the mindset that all gamblers are " addicts" Thanks.

Now considering the normal scenario of choosing between gambling and family, I'd choose family. Obvious choice hello? Gambling ain't a career. Its a hobby, a way to relieve stress. Who the hell has gambling as his career? Even players in tournaments are there because they're good, and thats it. They don't consider that as their bloody main source of income.
They are called addicts for a reason. And reasoning doesn't work on addicts. The very fact that they turned into addicts is already an irresponsible thing in their part. Now considering you're sane, and you chose gambling over family, then your pretty crazy. Just a thought though.

What do you mean I think. Remove that. Family should be our first responsibility. That's an always.

Yes, its the sad reality where there are people who are irresponsible enough on doing such action where they do exchange their family to their gambling addiction.

Unlucky for that family to have that kind of father which doesnt even recognized on whats the importance of his own family which gambling cant give.
People do make their own decision in life and outcome will vary or depend on which one he choose up and its clear on which one is good or bad.
Common sense will able to tell you.

I will choose my family, and if I am addicting, I will try my best to solve my problem even if I need to spend money to cure the addicting. For me, my family is everything, and maybe at that time, I will realize that I make the wrong decision of playing gambling until I addicted to gambling. I prefer to have or make a good simple life with my family because the family will mean for me. I will not let them disappointed with me again, and I want to make my family happy.

I am sorry, but this question kind of sounds retarded. Someone wanting to pursue "career" in gambling does not mean he is an gambling addict. There are lots of positions available when one will want to pursue a career in gambling.
You will never get a proper answer to this question. Highly likely an addict would choose to gamble over their family. After all, they are "addicts".

Is that even a choice? I wouldn't even have a hard time choosing between gambling and family. Of course, I'll choose my family over gambling. I wouldn't dare to lose my family just for gambling. And I don't think I can consider gambling as a "career". Gambling is about risk and that's not career. In your career, you're doing what you want that can help you provide the things you need and want. Yes that can be done in gambling but in a real career, it's not an everyday risk.
Family is always the priority, gambling is not that important compared to your family.

I have been through it even though it is not easy, there is no other way that I can be proud of except by diversifying sources of income. Prioritizing family and good karma at the top, and reducing my addiction to at least not considering gambling is the only way I live. I must compile many long-term plans with what I do in accordance with the risks faced.

For me, If I have a talent for playing different gambling games I will probably pursue it because it's my talent that gives me happiness and money if I won. But, if you do not have any talent in playing gambling and sometimes you just wasting your money on playing so you should rather choose your family and just use the money in making them happy. I will also choose my family over gambling and I know it will be the best decision in my life.

Even though money has very much importance in life as it gets us things.
I'll surely choose family over anything.
Gambling may be uncertain and full of risks but family is for certain and worth the risk.
So, I'll surely go with a simple life with my family.

I think you can't have a career by gambling or winning in gambling. Perhaps it is possible to build success and careers in gambling as a casino directorate or casino staff, but as a gambling player I think it is not possible to build such a success or career. Therefore, my preference would be to live a simple life with my family. In this way, I think that I will be happier and I will get more advantageous offers in case of a career. Again, the first choice is to be the player, not the player, because the gambler cannot make a career.

Once after knowing my family is depending on me, I'll not risk into gambling. With what I have I'll try to fulfill the needs of my family. If things go good surely with the support of my family once again after making my family members life better I'll get into gambling. Until I'm Single I can make my own decisions, but when my parents and family change to be dependents my decision should be taken on a common thinking.

Making a choice might be a bit difficult to those who are addicted to gambling because most of the time they will choose gambling over anything else if you ask them on the spot that is why there are those who does not only lost there assets but also lost there family.
Gambling is a very addictive vice and it is very important that because entering in gambling you have a strong will to avoid from too much addiction so that if you are faced with a decision to either continue pr quit in gambling then you can decide on the spot.

I think OP's question will depend on how addictive the person is because if that person is making a living with gambling and can support his/her family then for sure he/she won't leave gambling just like that but majority of people will choose their family because gambling are just there anytime you want while your family can leave any time they want if you don't take care of them.

I am the backbone of my family and their hopes in the financial sector, and to be an active gambler I must consider it a lot, because my family is a valuable treasure for me and they will be things that I will prioritize and I will not take risks if I became an active gambler.
I only play when I have extra money that I limit and have fun, and if I lose I will stop playing with the capital I have prepared and if I win I will stop playing when in a winning position.

I think i would choose my family over my career in gambling because we all know that gambling really does not gives us any benefit that it only gives us serious emotional problem like addiction, impatience, greed, etc, that is why choosing our family would be worth it because it will be better if you just take your responsibilities rather than become an irresponsible person.

Up to what extent of addiction is that? it's hard to judge based on the given situation, there's no actual situation and what things that addicted gambler can sacrifice just for him to pursue and won't stop his addiction.

But as for me, family first. You can gamble as many times as you want but trust, bonding and love from the family can't easily take back. Sure you can be happy as you gamble but there's a limitation for everything you do like the vice of being a gambler.

Of course the family will be the choice in such cases, but indeed, it is possible that they will still choose to gamble because of addiction or other reasons that keep them gambling. I just think more realistically about this problem as we realize if gambling is not worthy of being a source of income and therefore choosing a family with a simple life is the right choice for a better life, because looking for income can be done in many ways and not always about gambling for reasons to get money fast.

You're asking a funny question OP. Of course everybody will say they'd choose their family because even addicted people don't want to look like jerks in public. Saying that you'd choose the addiction would only make others say that you have no heart and things like that.

It's like a man asking a woman if she would live him if she met someone with more money. Of course she'll say no at first ;)

Most answers will be family despite them being addicted to gambling and just take for granted everything. I did experienced getting addicted to gambling and it is the worst. You will never see other importance of money but to take an adveture and risk it all in your bet. You lose, you just take it back next time. You went home and rest, go to your job and go back. That is not how you enjoy living.

LOL should not even asked in the first place. we all know the right answer but for those addicted ones, even if they know what should be done, they will opt to gambling side.
maybe just for the sake of discussion from all gamblers here and there. no one will admit that they will choose gambling even if in reality thats happening to him. it is only the gambler's decision on what kind of life he wants to live with...

I think the OP needs to separate the "addicted gambler" to a "career chasing/professional gambler".
Because there's a bit of confusion and misunderstanding between this two. As you can see, there were users who finds it stupid when you consider gambling as your career, nobody wants that, unless you're a professional gambler who will play from one casino to another, joining series of tournament, specifically in Poker. These professionals are paid regardless if they win or lose the tournament, excluding the side bets.
As you can see, there's a big difference between an addicted gambler to a professional gambler.
Addicted gambler relies purely on his own resources to gamble, while professional gamblers (gambling career) is paid to gamble.
And finally, I would always choose Family over everything.

Yeah, the family is everything because we lived with them for a long time. You did the right thing to choose family than gambling so that you can control yourself in gambling, and you know the risk of gambling. We can leave gambling forever, but we cannot leave the family no matter how bad we are. But we can still play gambling in our free time so we can enjoy our time, but we don't have to ask or invite the other family to join us. We need to prevent them from not to become addicted to gambling.

Best thing to spent your time with your love ones instead of dealing with anything that will corrupt your mindsets, we know to the fact that too much exposure with gambling can change the entire cycle of your everyday life but if you do have a good control over everything it will save you a lots of chances to become addicted. Right attitude and right mindsets with every activities that you'll going to take will make give you a better life.

Who would not want a simple and a good life with a family, of course I'm going to choose my family over gambling, it's a safe choice and you will have a good and hassle free life, we should put gambling into it's right perspective, it should be for entertainment only and never something that will become an option to your family life.

It's easy to choose but when you are already addicted, you can think properly and that's gonna give you a lot of problem as you will continue to gamble due to addiction. At this situation, you need the support of your family to help you get out of gambling addiction.

Like I said it's hard to decide but everyone will always choose family over a disease like gambling addiction.

In Don's voice (Main character in fast and furious), "Family is everything". So definitely my obvious and instant answer would be family. The love I have for my family both extended and immediate can't be compared to anything else. The idea of choosing between family and gamble has become a house hold discussion although I don't buy into that idea. You can be a professional gambler but still have time for your family.

I hate the idea of choosing between two things one love so I would always make out a way to enjoy both options i.e to make out time for gambling (professionally) and spending quality time with my family.

What about thinking the other way around? Such as spending money in gambling and once you gain profits, then help your family to get out of their poor financial state (if they are). Because when we say gambling, it doesn't already mean that it is destructive and negative. Gambling is a test of luck, and the true winnings is when you decide to put your money in good rather than wasting it with other things.

Family is the most important thing in all fields, none of which can compare families with gambling.
Family is an inseparable moment in life.

Gambling is something entertainment for me, nothing special for gambling for me.
I always separate gambling and family, the money I use for gambling is not the money used for family needs.
Gambling money, I spend for fun, everything can be arranged according to our wishes.

Obviously it is my family.

My family raised me to take care of my money and always warned me about gambling. I am not addicted to it but I do gamble now but how I gamble is not as exciting as you may imagine. I just gamble for fun, some might say I am lying but I am. I use free satoshis I can get on gambling sites, specifically in their faucets. The only thing I am wasting is time and not money but as other people say, I also hope I could win money through it.

Addiction or family? Ofcourse family! And that is if your "addiction" does not help take care of your family, pay your bills etc...
If your "addiction" is very beneficial esp financially then it's probably not worth being called an addiction. Besides, I don't think career can prevent a man from staying with his family occasionally. Father works hard for money while mother takes care of the kids combined with work at home job, if necessary.

I choose my family because no one can replace to them once i need a comfort they always there for me especially when i have a problem. Its been so hard to avoid gambling once you've been addicted into it. But if i need to choose family or gambling i choose my family and maybe i will stop gambling for them.

No one choose to get addicted, of course our family is very important to us and our gambling addiction could distant us from them.
They are important as they are part of our life and gambling addiction would certainly not gonna bring good results, in fact it will only kill our finances that might affect our relationship with our family badly.

This is something we should be avoiding as a gambler, gamble with control to spend or risk what we can afford only.

I would choose my family I could always find another way to earn money so why would I even risk my own family over gambling?
Normal person would always choose their family over gambling unless they are terrible addicted to it.

   It's your choice and we need to respect it. Each of us has a right to choose, it's freedom of choice. We need to respect decisions
that other people made, no matter do we like it or not.
   We can discuss about why some people can choose gambling over family, what if that family is bad and he wish to escape from them?
We can't judge about something without more facts about specific case.
   I don't choose between gambling and family, cause gambling is not my passion. I like to gamble from time to time with some tiny amount
of money, mostly betting on sports. People who have passions in life often needs to choose to pursuit that passion in life and confront
family or to stay with family and sacrifice part of them.

Family should be our priority. We will never had another chance to have our family so we should learn to value it over gambling. Gambling is just for fun we must not idolized it that will let our family ruined. We must create our own fortune and decide for better decisions.

I don't agree with your phrase "Gambling is for fun".
There are some people who are make living in Gambling, there  are still some people who feed their family with the profits on gambling, probably this is rare but for sure there are still some.

Although we all know gambling is very risky but still, some are really into it and they can make living there. For me, it will still differ on person how they do gambling even if they have family.

Of course family, no one can love and understand us (and stick to us despite of our mistakes) like what they did. We can find other ways to earn or to have fun but we cant replace our family thus they should be our top priority more than anything else.

However for a person addicted in gambling I think it would be hard to choose especially if the addiction come to worst that he cant think and act properly because it can affect our mental condition.

this has been answered in actual scene for so many times and also those addicted that confide their experiences here in forum.

many of them admitted that being left by their family because they don't care about their love ones instead they focuses on their gambling career.

and if the true addict will answer this?surely the answer is career and not the family,it is hard ang shit but that is reality.

I think OP needs to make it clear, is it career or addiction? Gambling can be a career like a professional poker player does. Or you can also be the house, it is in line with gambling as well. Addiction is different. The gambler does not have control of his gambling habits.

Well, if you are an addict, you have limited choices actually unless you commit yourself to get cured by getting professional help. If I am an addict, it will be hard to choose family because addiction will make it hard for you to let go of the habit.

But if it is a career, then Family is the choice. I can always find another career if gambling is a conflict with my love ones.

What career in gambling? I don’t treat this one as a career so technically i will go for my family always. Gambling is just for fun, and when you’re bored or feeling stress, there’s no such career in gambling is a life threatening actually. Having a simple life is good, but you can still gamble will moderation, don’t make this one as your bad habit because its not if you know to control yourself.

Making such decisions directly depends on your core values.
As a rule, addicts find it much easier to cope with addiction when they realize what is of the highest value to them.

For example, it can be health, family, children, friends, or just people.
The deeper and closer a person perceives such values, the easier it is for him to make a choice.

though i know what will be the answer if a "TRUE ADDICT" will answer this and not those random gamblers wanna be,(and that is their gambling career is what they will choose)i will answer in my personal views,and that is my Family because gambling is just around but our family may leave us and in our deepest part of life.
i have some friends that has chosen their career over family and now they are on bended knees asking for forgiveness as they made a bad decision in past and wanted to make up again.

Family vs a gambling addition which may come with some rewards bu many losses along the way? Errmm, I'd go with family and think of a new, safer way to make money, like getting a job either in the real world or even in crypto so long. Either of these would be better than giving in to addiction, don't you think?

Being addictive into gambling will makes your like miserable this will not gives a pure happiness in life. So many of us will choose family over addiction in gambling. If from the start, a person choose the addiction over family surely he will feels regret giving importance in gambling than your family. People should really think what’s the best not to become addicted to gambling.

I will prioritize my family since I know that they will be at my side every time even through ups and downs, my addiction to gambling won't help me in anything.
I think what you have said is true. Finding a stable job and keep yourself on the right path would be a better choice than to get yourself more addicted to gambling where your family gets affected by what you are doing with your life.

If I we're to decide I always prefer living a simole life with my family, getting secure and permanent job is a very good options to have. I won't waste every opportunity to provide comfort to my family. Gambling isn't a career to consider, I don't know with other people's vision on gambling, but we should always put first thing first before dealing on some uncertain situations.

Why would you choose it if you obviously know what will happen with yourself, your family and your relationship with your wife (married people). Gambling is design to make you lose if you decide to take your chance of winning the game which your chance is very low. It won't be called gambling if it's not a game of chance which most players would surely win. Gambling games is design for pleasure, thrill, fun and not for earning profit (because of lower chances of winning than losing).

I don't think anyone would choose the second option and do you think everyone doesn't knows this?? It's obvious that everyone knows what implications come with being a gambler but still everybody does it. They read motivational quotes about not gambling during the day and gamble on the same night because it's so hard to get out this crazy loophole.

A worthy choice rather than risking yourself into gambling addiction.True happiness cant really be achieved thru gambling but rather on your own family and loved ones.

If you can dare to exchange them due to your gambling addiction then its your choice but dont cry later if you do realize their importance once gambling turn sour into you. ;D

That is right. We should not waste the opportunity that can give a better life for our family. We can provide something that can give happiness to our family because it is hard to get happy with them. Gambling is an option for us whether we play or not, but the family will be the most important thing that we should care about. We must prevent ourselves from the addicting to gambling because if that thing is to happen to us, then we will lose the opportunity to feel happy with our family.

Of course the answer is obvious, if you have family then why are we gonna be let ourselves to become a addicted gambler. As a gambler we should control our selves where we should know our limitation. I am the bread winner of my family and my source of income is trading. Gambling for me is just an entertainment and that is why I have control over it.

while i am sure that this will never happen to me(because i am not a gambling addict)but i will surely choose my Family because they are the most important thing in my life.

not unless i am an expert gambler and making tons of money out of it?i will explain to my family the situation and will give them everything just to prove how important they are in my life.

It actually depends, when we say pure happiness, no one could tell it and could figure it out except for you only. There are some cases that people could find the real happiness when playing or gambling, there are some people that could find happiness in helping other people, and there are some people that could finds happiness by doing things which others aren't. In short, it depends upon what you consider is your true passion.

For the gamblers who already being an addicted i'm sure their answers will choose gambling instead of their family and i had seen this situations plenty on the real life that the addicted gamblers leave their family and only want to gamble and for me if someday my family asking to me to choose to gamble or them then i would like to choose them because my family is everything to me

Yes, but also addictions have different levels, and what I was trying to say is the addiction where a certain person is not sane enough to think about this family, I mean he is too messed up to decide what is best for him or for his family, and in the end, his family will leave him because they can't take him anymore. Most of the addicted gamblers have mental disorder, angry management disorder, and other attitude that is caused by frustrations and depressions, they need help but we can't help them if they are going to reject our help.

Just want to raise the awareness of addiction to prevent others on going too far in gambling.

Would it really need to involve the family matters when gambling in cryptocurrency? Because gambling is one of the ways we can spend our bitcoins and it doesn't necessarily considered to risk to much in gambling. We have funds allotted for playing and with a righteous mind, I consider every cryptocurrency enthusiast as intelligent and knowledgeable beings, in this case, I believe they will not pursue deciding to risk the money intended for their family matters. My advise is to only spend what you think you can afford to lose. Meaning to say that just spend a very small percentage of your funds in gambling.

Not totally involve like you're going to do that, as in involve them in gambling by convincing them to play also, no. Family is going to be involve in their own way, like they are going to stop you from your addiction or in playing gambling because of the risk of it, and that is family for you, and the most cases here is that we play online gambling to hide it from them that we play gambling, that being said, most of the time, it is too late for them to be involve because we are already addicted on playing it.

For those who are making a career in gambling it sill be difficult. Addiction and having a career are two different things. If gambling is your bread and butter and it is your way to feed your family without even ignoring your responsibility, I guess your family would understand. But if it is creating problems with your family, you should consider which should you choose, your career or family

That's good if you can use gambling for entertainment, and you can control yourself because not all gamblers in out there can do the same as you. Even if they have family, some gamblers can forget their responsibility for their family, and they still gamble more and more. I think they must to know about the limitation of themselves so they can hold their mind not to playing gambling for a long time. We need to have a job outside of gambling so we can give the money to our family, and if we have free money, then we can use that money to gamble if we want.

While the answer may be obvious for most, how would you choose it and why?

If I we're jobless person and a successful man when retirement came in my life, I would prefer making gambling as a fun entertainment without being addicted. But for those who still have their careers with high generated income, my advice that they should choose it instead of being addicted to gambling.

Everybody wants a better life we all want it, and we always work for it, but you cannot have a better life choosing to gamble and relying on gambling for your everyday needs you need a sustainable income, for you and your family if you cannot provide that, you are useless, your decisions should only be about good life.

you have already mentioned about "Obvious answer" meaning that is family right/so why needed to explain why we choose this and why?but for the sake of argument i will state my answer since i choose family as well.

it is my family because

- they are the one why i am struggling and working to earn.

- they are the love of my life

- i would rather not to gamble than to risk losing my family

Gambling career? Is this from an Onion article? There's pretty much no career in gambling. You'd have to be extremely skilled to have people pay you to play for them and even then, that's few and far apart. The only "career" I can think would be possible within gambling AS a gambler is teaching noobs how to play.

You never really make money from this industry except if you own or bankroll the casino. So knowing that, the choice is pretty clear. But then again people with addiction aren't thinking properly because of their mental state.

career in gambling ?  when you say career it means that you are a pro on it   . being pro in gambling means you earn good so why stop  ? its far from a real addict because pro players have a time schedule or a routine to follow so that they are in condition before the game begins  . i wont stop it because this can give my family a better future  or a better life   . if not a career or playing for pro gambling , i will still choose both family and gambling but not to the point of playing adictly  .

Obvious answer is surely I'd prefer choose family and make simple life. Career in gambling? in my opinion it is very uncertain because there is no bright future when struggling in the world of gambling.
more important family, there will definitely be a better way than continuing a career in a gambling place.

A good point indeed, why to choose one if you could choose both right? But the fact that we still need to set priority, we cannot make both sides equal, what is better is to focus on your family and to spend low priority in gambling but to work hard, there are many gambling platforms that allows betting of small amount and winnings with allot. Just to satisfy our hunger in games, we could play but with the awareness of the limitations that we have.

This is where the major difference lies between successful gamblers and addicted gamblers. The former play for entertainment with positive mindset and limited funds whereas latter play it to seek some easy money. This is so great that you are totally beware of your responsibilities and are relying on much reliable plus rational source of income. Trading is rather far better than gambling as it is skill based.

Setting up always a limitation is crucial because this thing will really stop you on getting broke or potentially got addicted with gambling.Always set or to focus more on
priorities and as been said which our own leisure seeking should really be controlled up.Be aware on what you are currently doing yet decisions in life and its outcome
will depend on how you do decide into things.

I would say Family is first, but you know, people act weird when they are addicted to something. And gambling is one of those vices who can destroy your life and leave a bad taste for the family. 

In the past in my country (México), people used to bet their parents in a poker hand. Is nuts and people don't do it nowadays, but is a good example about how the gambling adiction can damage the family.

There is no discussion and choices here, of course, it is always our family that is why we tried to gamble to be able to provide and hope for a better future to our love ones. There is no way someone will choose gambling over his/her family, maybe there is but a total idiot and does not have self control a total gambling addict.

Of course, I chose family because we all know that gambling is a risky activity and it can make our life worst and we'll probably lose a lot of money that we can't afford in the case of addiction, people should be careful and think wisely when it comes to choosing, making a simple life with family is a way much better than earning a huge amount of money that you'll probably lose, it's a high risk and I personally can't take that risk.

Agreed, everyone get into the process of making more money to keep the family members fulfilled with their desires. Very few succeed in this, and myself have tried to make money out of gambling and gift big to my girlfriend. Finally lost what I kept secure for months to buy gift, and this way unexpected sorrow and happiness makes gambling more joyous as well as tearful. When played with control considered as an entertainment source it can help in the betterment of life.

The most important thing is carrer, gambling will only bring suffering and hunger to your family, being hook up to something that there are more chances of loosing is an addiction problem, if you only play for a few bucks and you go homes its okay but if your staying there in the hotel everyday and then playing again after resting thats not good, unless your retired and got lots of money you dont know what to do.with it, but if your an average person, and you're doing that I think you better think twice, thats not a good sign think if your family and choose the right path before its too late

It do come to all sorts of things which we arent even expecting for someone to commit due to their gambling addiction which you can say that they are really already out of their minds on doing something which
is out on our expectation or to a person that do have in the right mind and with this choosing up wither your family or gambling then if you are still on the right thinking and realization then you will surely choose up
those persons whose important to you but if you are the one that been consumed with addiction then for sure you wouldnt care to those people anymore.

What the hell! This is the most insane story I've heard so far — gambling addiction at it's finest. How come that there will be a person who have the guts to sell his parents where his own blood and flesh are made from :(. I can't believe it. Well, I'm glad that this kind of shit is not happening already and I hope it will never happen again.

Anyway, If I have to choose between family and gambling of course I'll pick my family. But if my hobby doesn't affect my family relationship at all then it will stay that way. You don't necessarily need to choose only one if it doesn't harm you at all.

Exactly, but I think gambling is a very expensive hobby.

I am not saying I don't enjoy gambling, I just don't spend a lot of time to it as I know based on my experience that I could be prone to addiction if I do that. Everyone of us has our own hobby which gives us a little entertainment but we should always be responsible all the time especially if its a risky one like gambling.

Family should always be our priority, majority of the gamblers gamble to win and maybe if they win they think of helping their family as if we keep winning then we can say making money is easy, no hard work needed which we can make more money without limitations too, but it's only good if we are really good, so we need to be realistic as well.

I will think the same by using trading than gambling as a way to make money. But as you know that many gamblers don't have responsibilities in gambling, so that makes them getting deeper into gambling without a chance to stop even if they lose their money.

We can try to be a gambler who will have a positive mindset that gambling is for having fun, and if we have family, we must use family as an important reason why we must not stay for a long time in gambling. We want to stay with our family, spend the time together, and if we have a strong bond with them, we will always think our family and gambling time will not be our reason to have fun because we can have fun with our family in many things.

This is the ultimate question every addicted gambler would come upon on his/her life. It's just you and your money when you are alone but when you have to support a family or be a part of it, you should take your economic decision on mutual understandings. In lack of that the relation won't go smooth.
It's always better to be a responsible gambler from the start and set your limits and rules.

not only weird but also acting stupid most of the time,addiction turns a person into another human and decides many mistakes than good one.
is this for real?what can be benefited if the winners take home the PARENTS?this is the most weird thing i ever heard from gambling world.

Really a tough spot though. If you really a chronic gambler you will find this thing difficult otherwise it is obvious on who to choose. Well, in my case I will choose my family, of course. I won't be letting anyone or anything be a hindrance for a relationship, and in addition gambling can be cause for conflicts thus, it might lead to a worst possible scenario, divorce or any sort of bad relationship, in which majority don't want to happen in the first place. I am willingly to give up my addiction over my family, besides, I don't want my kids be an addicted with this kind of game as well.

Family is more important than anything else. Money is nothing if there is no Family, we earn money and we work hard because of our family, so it is pretty obvious that we choose family over gambling. Maybe this question is for those who are too much attached to gambling that can't control their mind playing gambling. Maybe it is hard for them to choose of the two.

This is so true that generally people work for family and give them priority . At times they will not buy anything for themself but will fulfill the other people needs and if anything left then they buy for oneself . But those who get addicted to gambling may find it difficult as it involves money and certain humans are greedy more than their family .

People's bad experiences with gambling have made many to see it as evil... It is just as some people can get criticized for drinking alcoholic wine by those who dislike alcohol. It boils down on moderation. Things that have little to no harmful effects when taken in moderation shouldn't be a problem.

I agree with this. I'm a family oriented person and I'm very close to my family and for me, they are the greatest gifts for me.

I will not and will never choose gambling or money over my family although if you are a money minded person, you will say "Your love with your family will be useless if you don't have money because your love can't make you buy necessities such as foods water etc." Probably, some of the addicted gamblers choose gambling over their family which is the worst decision a person can make.

Obviously, i will choose my family over my addiction in gambming because without my family i would be nothing and worthless, unlike if i choose gambling instead of my family, i would end up losing a lot of money and wasted most of my life. Gambling is only for entertainment and for fun, that is why you should not let yourself be attached in gambling too much.

good for you mate's because youre showing how much you love your family but me , im not that really attached to my mom , and my dad was also passed away when i was still a kid and we arent also close to each other  .  my bro was also not friendly to me so i sometimes feel the same  . for me its a tough decision to make because i also develop a gambling addiction a little only but not too much  . your last qoute was true that i feel useless or my love for them will feel empty if i cant provide them some cash to buy thier needs and for the house needs , so i just spend more time in gamble hoping to win   .

now, the family is my first priority and gambling is my 5th priority..  before marriage, I had been very devastated, because I let gambling control myself, now that after a family I realize that my wife and child are my primary responsibility, their lives depend on me.

The question is not simple, not easy, that is, it is easy from this point of view, of course it is a family, but when we are addicted we are usually not aware of the choice, of course we want a family but the gamble is dragging us.
Everyone wants to have a healthy and normal family, but envy usually kills it.
So we can't choose here, but a strong mentality can keep us from gambling.

I already know that, I don't know if do you?


I can't recall myself having a mindset like that, I've stated my post crystal clear, but I can't prevent it if someone is going to misunderstood my post since we have different level of understanding, I'd recommend read it very slowly, you'll get my point. :)


Read this, hope it will help to you guys to understand what I'm trying to say about my post to avoid further misunderstanding.

^ That is the reason why gamblers should have self discipline in order to control their selves from any temptations in gambling. When you are addicted, just something you commit promises from gambling and it is always in our mind to keep whispering just to gamble and even when we close our eyes we always saw in our imagine those gambling games we played. So, if you have a responsibility in your life just take this as your priority and set aside your gambling habit. Family is very important and it should always in our priorities.

when talking about careers, it will also be measured professionally, money management is more mature with strategies that come from accumulated experience, the principle of capital management is no longer merely biased from addiction. An established gambler is able to cover everything and not affect the family's needs subjectively. It is difficult to describe it more clearly because the abilities of each gambler are not the same.

Money management is the right thing if you are in a gambling habit. Of course, you can split your money into how many folds for those expenses that you have and spare a little amount that you can afford to gamble and not the entire budget that supposed to be for your family needs. Correct, educated gamblers are know everything and they know how to budget money.

thanks that you have given a  second chance because there are many gamblers that did not have recovered from their mistakes and end up nothing.

family is the greatest thing that will happen to every people so never waste time in anything less important than them,we will use all our life and power to give them what they need.

Some people do not like gambling so they keep talking wrong about it but in actual it’s good for those who know how to play it so keep learning and gamble with money you have extra with you. Gambling is liked and disliked by people equal so we should take out own decision and never rely on other peoples thinking.

A person should never have to think about this decision, unless they are estranged from their family or something. Succumbing to addiction is something nobody should ever do as it will just make your life worse than it already is.

If someone lived far away from his family, he is not thinking about his family for some time, and that can attract him to the gambling games. When he plays gambling, he can forget about his family, and that makes him use his money for playing in a long time. And it that is happened, he needs to pull himself from gambling and get away from the place before something worse happens to him. He needs to have a responsibility to himself and his money so he can protect his money from the loss in the gambling games.

but gambling addiction changes the personality of the individual that is why sometimes this things happen that family is being leveled in gambling.

if you are not aware,there are so many cases that a gambler has been left of family because of being desperate to stop them continuing their bad habit.

but you are also correct that it is estranged to choose between family and gambling because they are two different thing in reality.

Gambling or say money is such a thing that people forget the relationships in front of money and this I have seen it practically also . Only a self disciplined or say who have a good control can resist from such addiction else people are prone to it .

Me, I wouldn't even consider gambling as my priority or even include it because I don't want it and I don't want to get addicted into it. My family is my main priority at this moment and next is my future that is why I don't want to invest too much money in gambling. To all addicted gamblers who have family right now, stop gambling and focus on your family and you will never regret it :).

bad thinking if gambling is made a top priority, although sometimes gamblers can benefit, if he neglects his family for gambling, then it is very likely that one's mentality has been disturbed and his gambling addiction can be detrimental to his future life.

It's quite impossible that you have money but you don't have anything where to spend it, and in the first place, it is not the gambling platforms that should be the option or last resort for you to spend it. There are many ways you can grow your money and make it productive. And for me, the only reason we came in to gambling is because we wanted to test our luck without really an intention to lose our money. Those that are getting addicted are those who really have a strong belief that they could possibly be a millionaire while playing.

If people feel the need to hide the fact they're gambling, then that's a good indication that there's a problem.

I'm of the opinion that it's simply best to own up to your wins and losses with your family, since they'll help to intervene if there's a need to.

It will be a tough question, but for me? I will choose my family, no amount of money can replace my family, even I will having a good run in gambling still my family would be my first spot in my life and also my first priority, because at the first place I gambled because I want to have money to provide for their needs. Family first then career second.

What is here to choose? You need to know your priorities, you need to know where will your actions lead you, you need to be smart and not let anything to disturb your life. If gambling affect your life you have a serious problem, question is not to choose between gambling and family, question is why did you let that happen?
Again we are on actions that lead to something, you need to be aware of your actions and what you are doing. Why to cry later if you can stop something in the root?

No one in in the right sense will choose a gambling life without thinking of settling down with his family. Having a gambling is like having everything, gambling is just there for fun. You should think of having a real family and not building a gambling family. I guess you know what that means.

Most people will think like that, but don't forget that perhaps, there are people who don't think about his family when he plays gambling. He is too busy playing gambling, and he forgets about the time to stop playing gambling. That will make him forget everything, and I don't think that he will be able to win the gambling games too. Yes, gambling is for fun, and he should not use gambling for searching the fun only because he can get fun with his family. If he can get fun with his family, I think he will forget about gambling for a while.

First of all, I don't think seeing gambling as a career is the right. Why? It is because payment is not guaranty.
For some people who have successfully made some money from it 'often' put in a lot of hard work for years. And if such energy is channelled into a business it will earn you more. Instead of in gambling.

Secondly, family will always come first. There is no need arguing that.

A lot of people now are getting addicted on online gambling especially now, there are lots of online sites right now so maybe some of them are already out of control especially if they are too much attached into it, it is hard for them to choose of the two for sure or maybe they will say they choose their family but in reality, they will not apply it to their real-life and still choose to play online non stop as long as they have money.

I would agree with that, there is no need to hide because gambling is never a bad thing if people understand it and if you explain it to your family that are open minded. The fact that we are hiding, we are prone to destroying our lives if we get addicted, because no one would know and we can always deny although they will surely notice.

that is what exactly happening to those addicted in this area,they tend to hide their gambling activities that comes to end of being addict ,and when the time comes that they are seeking for help it is almost too late because some of them commit suicide and others are really deep to debt and cannot recover of paying them.and also others had been killed because of too many credits.

This is true, myself a sufferer of the same. I've been into gambling for a long, and out of addiction and chasing of the loses I lost big. Later I wasn't able to overcome the loses, and I wasn't able to share the same to any of the people who are close to me. Because if I share they might feel I'm asking for money indirectly. Finally I shared with few of my friends and this made me get relieved out be normal.

Honestly it is a very difficult choice for an addict, usually an addict will experience stress if his desire is not fulfilled.

It takes special treatment before the addict leaves the gambling place, I am not sure without that phase he would be able to live a simple life with his family.

Have you had any relatives addicted to anything? People keep talking a lot about "Gambling Addiction". But have you seen any addicts before? The addict has no family, the addict has nothing but his addiction, the addiction blinds you, the addiction does not allow you to see things like family and friends. Addiction is a very serious disease. We can't think that just because someone lost a bet today and again lost a bet the other day we can already consider that person to be a gambling addict


As I said, people who are addicted to anything don't know what family and friends are. They are sick and need treatment and a lot of support from family and friends, But never make an addict have to choose between family and addiction because I can assure you that the addict will choose the addiction.

If we are talking about a person who is not addicted but the family does not like him to play gambling and make him choose between gambling and the family? So here it is debatable and it will depend on some points like:

1-) Does the family have other sources of income or does the only source of income come from gambling?

2-) If the family has other sources of income, do these other sources of income arrive to pay all the bills?

If you are a sober gambler you will pick your family 100% because you can think clearly and you know very well that it's not right to spend too much money gambling and neglect your family, but if you are addicted to gambling, there's a big chance that you will always find ways to gamble and cheat your family and spend more on gambling.

For me I will choose both. You can always choose those two as long as you are a responsible gambler which is you know your limitations in terms of playing or gambling. If you are talking about of having it as a career then go and pursue your career, do what makes you happy so that in the end no worries you will have. You can always live a simple life with your family and love ones as long as you are a responsible and you know your limits, you can do both things as long as you know how to manage your time and having more bond to your family. Why I am insisting to choose two? Because at the end of the day you will ask yourself about "What if" so that you can avoid those scenarios.

If you have been in the situation before you will better understand it based on your experience, but true addicts are out of their mind and they are only focus of one thing which is gambling, the worse thing is that they gamble without discipline so there is no limit which put them at a bigger risk.



That's why it's necessary that our family knows we are engage in gambling so they will be able to spot if there is a problem on us and will help us on a timely manner.

Incase I need to choose between the two ofcourse my family I will choose it's okay to have simple life but the needs I will gives to them and we are complete. But gambling can also possible change my family lives but because I have control playing gambling maybe I should choose both my career and also my family.  For sure we have different reason of what are choosing between career or family.

We should keep out relations at first priority and we should spend with family as well because gambling is not all we need in life but we just need some family. So we should gamble but don’t be greedy to spend time earning all the time and no time for people who live around us as this way we can become addicted to gambling which is not a good thing at all.

I wonder if there is anyone that would choose gambling over family.
You have to be sick in your gambling addiction in order to get this decision and apart from that you isolate yourself for a lifetime by doing this.

Of course there is. That is what addicts do. They will choose gambling above everything else.
I haven't had it happen to someone close to me but one I know of one acquaintance who gambled away his business, his home and lost his family due to gambling. He had a great life. Nice business venture, modern home, a family, a beautiful daughter. He pissed it all away on slot machines. The bank took his business, he lost his home because he could no longer afford it. His wife left with the daughter and he is now God knows where. 

It gonna be sick and a stupid decision but can't deny that some gamblers even choose to have their family but they still spend a lot of time gambling. 
Addiction could be a sort of extortion, it badly changes our mind and even controlling our decision. It is really to get out from the hell of addiction if we still have a time to be in gambling. For us to have a change and tried to correct our mistakes, the only solution to this is to totally cut all the connections in gambling.

I am sure that there are people who would choose to play gambling than his family because he thinks that if he wins in gambling, he can buy many things for his family. But if he thinks that it is not worth to do that, he will not gamble, and he will back to his family. I never met someone who did that, and I hope that I don't have to meet that person because I cannot imagine how will be his family if he chooses to gamble than his family.

Easier said than done but you have a point on this. Total withdrawal from gambling will give you a better life for you and your family. Addiction in gambling will give a lot of negative impact on your family. So I guess, you need to weigh your priorities here if you want to change your life for good.

There is no one who would in his or her complete senses are going to prefer gambling over family. Family is something that you cannot buy with money rather you lose it if you don’t care of it well and prefer material things over it. If you become gambling g addict and in this course left your family, you won’t get any support by anyone to get over your addiction. Families are always the first priority.

Even so, at least some gambling addicts spend more time and money on gambling than for their families, this will be very possible when players do have an environment that is very identical to gambling. They do live a simple life but actually he can live better with his family with the income he has, but because someone is a gambling addict so what happens is an imbalance in his finances because more often spent in gambling.

Gambling addicts undoubtedly spend so much money on gambling just because they want to satisfy their inner cravings for winning bets. Winning bets are not always about money, sometimes gambler just want a satisfaction that he or she is capable of winning bets and enjoying victory. Of course when one is spending money on gambling that is for the family, things will go terrible for him both as in his relationships and finance.

Yes, so if there is a person who will choose to play gambling than family, then he should be taken to psychology because he chooses the wrong decision. The family will be on our side forever, but gambling cannot be on our side forever, especially if we don't have money. When you become addicted to gambling, you need your family to support you in solving your problem, and I am sure that the family will take care of you. But that only happens if you have a strong emotion with your family, and they will not let you down when you got trouble.

Not only choosing gambling rather anything over family is highly disgusting thing because there is no money or gold or diamond that can buy you a family and those who stick to you because of your money are obviously not your family. If anyone who prefers money or gambling over money shall himself visit some psychologist because this is nothing normal. Gambling simply makes you an addict; it never proves healthy for anyone.

Its not too hard to live healthy life with family while having gambling as your daily habit but you don't have to spend more money for your entertainment than you family needs.If I have to pick only one then I will o for gambling and I can skip gambling habit forever in my life but the fact is there is no need for that if we have clear mind.

You don't seem to understand that once you are addicted to gambling there is not really any choosing for you, gambling will dictate your life and if that means that you need to give up everything then most people will do it, the only ones that can take the right decision of choosing their family over their addiction are those that have realized that there is something terribly wrong with them and that they need help so they are not completely addicted to gambling, because in my experience the people that are the worst addicts to gambling that I have seen have always refused to acknowledge that fact.

you can tell that to the addicted gamblers and let us see what is their reaction because for them it is not the family that is first instead the addiction is their priority and they can spend all their money just to gamble and let their family starved(and that is the sadness reality about the bad side of gambling)yeah we can find happiness when playing but we can also ruined life because of gambling.

If we keep in mind that we are earning money for our family and no matter from which place we go to earn we earn that for our family and we keep limit for our family that we have to complete that limit amount for our family to feed them then we will not be careless about our family needs and it will not make us to lose our money which we earn for our family. At the time of gambling if we keep in mind that we are playing only to get rid of tiredness and to be ready to do more work to earn for our family then we will not be addicted.

There are very few people with such clear mindset about gambling and also with such astonishing control over greed, emotions and thoughts. If you can do this then I believe that all other gamblers can have such attitude towards gambling. This is nice that gamblers like you exist who are aware of their limits and are not defaming gambling. I would rather choose to pair up my family with gambling on good terms.

And I believe it also. It is all about how we manage ourselves. If we overly spend time into gambling, it will just mean that we pushing ourselves into addiction. It is quite hard to think why people did this, I don't know that it is really their intention and they want that kind of life. Being indulge to gambling addiction will surely never give a positive result but just a miserable life we have.

Why do we even have to ask this? Of course, I would choose my family. Who is sane enough to choose gambling over family?

And please do not ask who will you choose, gambling addiction or family. That is crazy raising this question. Nobody prefers addiction, not even those who do not have families. Not even the addicts themselves. They are sick and they need treatment.

I depends, when you are addicted to gambling, should you totally ignore your family? At lease you should go home to sleep, of course the addiction will have a way of affecting your attention for your family, but whatever you are addicted to should be profitable enough to make you still pay bills and your family should accept that you are addicted to something reasonable not to be a fool. Family is far more important but if one is addicted to gambling not foolishly.

thats why some gambling addict mostly end up living in the street because they dont care of everything when they are still having money to gamble instead all they want is to Bet and gamble.

later that they realized having nothing at all and even the rent for house is unpaid so he is thrown out to street and His family as well.really hated situation but this is how gambling affect lives if we dont control our self.

self.

Yes, making mistakes in gambling should be avoided especially if that will lead to addiction because that is a serious disease where you don't only make yourself miserable but especially those people who relies on you, like your family.

I've been addicted once in my life but I'm thankful it wasn't that serious and I was able to restore the trust of my family to me.
Realizing early is important so damage is not that serious yet. 

If one is addicted to gambling there's no other things inside his mind everything is all about gambling, it won't bothered to think about his family as
he will only care about how to gamble and all inside his minds is just to find ways to try winning and increase his chances to win big time.

Gambling is one of the good game created; this game consists of different kinds of card, dice, and roulette games that can give you a lot of money in just a single game. There are people play gambling because they want to seek their desires of playing risk and full of fun, but most of the player in the gambling is the people who want to earn a lot of money in just a single win. A player who already wins a lot of games cannot stop playing gambling because sometimes this is the source of their income. We cannot stop a person who earned a lot of money in just a single game. Always there's a play who conquers the game after a full of fun and excitement still there is a player who loses their games, and hoping to have their money back they want to continue playing and sometimes cause of too many debts. If you already experience this better to stop playing. A family is waiting for you and your money and use this to buy their basic needs.

gambling isnt a game but its a kind of entertainment with lots of games on it  .

not really true but depend on the person playing  . if he is lucky yes he can win huge but if not then he doesnt   .

gambling as a source of income  ? risky but cool at the same time and would be more cooler if they knew how to win because that is easier and enjoyable than compare to working the traditional way  .

family is love like what they said  .  that saying tells that family is important than playing gambling  . we must care for them first and gambling should be done next if its your hobby

This is merely a mental problem to be considered, because if you can't handle that bad action of yours nothing will be changed. You'll become worthless and more prone with gambling, and mindset will not be changed unless you'll lose everything in you. Family is so important, that's why as a gambler don't wait until everything is gone from you. Don't be fooled by gambling diversions, because it's always a big lie at all once you'll get addicted to it.

Yes these things happen to the gamblers but along with that there is a lot of entertainment in these games which also attract them and keep them intact to the gambling. Plus the wish to earn profit in gambling increase the addiction of gamblers. These things when combine together the gambler start to lose their family members and they forget that they also have to care for their family.

I think you guys just ignored the fact that gambling is a disease and it is not healthy anymore if you are eaten by it. Gambling is present and designed for entertainment purposes only and you shouldn't fallen addicted to it. If a gambler is addicted yet making a good profit more than what he lost then they can continue the path of being a gambler but if they were beyond losses then it is unhealthy anymore.

It is not "home" anymore if you are not happy staying on it, ignoring your family is not even counted that you love them, at least you go home? well, everyone goes home at the end of the day but the love should be always on it.


Exactly, there are only few who are making profits in gambling, but what if he is not making any profits from it therefore he turned his life---family into a miserable one by getting too many bills to pay stock up in their pockets, selling their properties as a solution to end their debts, and at the end, he ended up being broke and cause him to have a broken family. Sad life :(

Gambling as such is not a disease. Gambling addiction is. Don't ignore the difference. If you gamble responsibly and set financial limits to yourself, gambling is a hobby like any other. Most hobbies cost money anyway so gambling is not different here.

That's what I meant and I know what I meant but anyway, thanks for the heads up.
Just like I said gambling is designed for entertainment purposes only. So if you like to play then go just bring some money that you can afford to lose if you have a problem of controlling yourself from gambling.

Family-that lied to you and cheated you...and put you in this position..as one had never gambled prior ever..becoming involved  in a game that you had absolutley no idea how inteligent it was.becoming so in twined in such game it itself becomes your family.Addicted to the ones that helped you when everyone left you what if you dont gamble and are in a secret game that the rules are not to gamble and you have to wait till that 1 time come new years to see how it pans out and the prize is a fortune but the players call you everything under the sun,block you in everyway  and bark at you to constantly gamble but under another usernames account and balance which will render you ultimatly a loss at the end..even though you have safely practiced elements of what is required to jump accounts without direct guidance and  this sounds crazy and the owners have stated that theres no way you can win in any which way..yeah,ive got problems but this thread has to..how dare you help in this manner.in a crypto world you are all taking a gamble..not everyone wins all the time in any part of this life..proper rant fin'.

It's not Gambling VS Family. It is Gambling and Family VS Family only.

I will choose the gambling at the same time living with my family. Because If I am good at gambling and making it my career, then it should be good for us for my family. Very few people can make the gambling as their career so, I can assume that I am very good at this, then I can make money out from it on a stable basis so, I would choose a gambling career and my family.


I get your point because addicted doesn't mean you are addicted to losing your money. Some people are addicted to winning, and gambling is working on their life, they are making gambling profitable and making it as a source of income. Some people see gambling as a quick way to lose your money, but some people are making tons of cash out of it.

edited mate,thanks for the heads up..

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and this will save us from being a desperate person sooner,because this will bring us in shit living if addiction controls our life.

wow that is a tough admittance mate,because it is rare occasion that i can read someone admitting to be a addict or former addict,i wish you will continue this race and will not become a total addict in future while giving way on your gambling habits.

this is where the need for sources of income other than gambling takes precedence. I don't want to risk both of them even though family is very important. I would rather stop and choose to save money in a bank if it is involved with a very severe condition. But I still have good financial management, and gambling is not always the first priority, addiction can always be rehabilitated as time goes by with an increasingly healthy mentality.

This is why it is said that we shall keep an eye on our family members in order to prevent them from becoming an addict. But this is really heartrending when people invest their last pennies even into gambling leaving their families ruined and lost. I have personally observed that poor people are the ones who gamble to the level where they risk their lives and their families’ lives as well.

Some gamblers cannot really control their urge to gamble eventhough they have less financial income and the outcome is they have burried in debt. Just like you said, financial management should be learnt and if gambling will only hinder your financial management, then stop it. Don't compromise the needs of your family by just fulfilling you desire to gamble.

Good point. Financial securities for your family should be the first thing in mind before satisfying your desire to gamble.  Though there's different types of mentality regarding to this but if you are focus and you have good discipline where you can balance both your leisure and your time for your family. You can still continue having  better life just  good attitude and  well driven goals.

As you said, gambling can't be the first priority thought, It's so risky and at any time you can lose all of your money. Choosing family and holding your money is the better choice to be honest, I'm not saying that you'll just quit gambling forever, people can just gamble, but at least they need to control themselves and do not be greedy.

It is not so hard to avoid gambling addiction as everyone better knows what is good and what is not good for them so if you are watching that you lose is increasing with your stay you better stop investing more than trying to recover your lose and make more mistakes in this way. If you once lose just stop investing more and you can again gamble on a lucky day.

Priority if set rught can lead a good life and your would enjoy your life as wll beacuse you would be spending on the needs fgirst and rthen on thw wants . But gambling is such an acitivity if get addcited you would spend here more than in your needs as well as you might lose in gambling and would not have money to spend on your needs.

In life you need to put any thing in order for us to make a good decision. In life we need to prioritize our family first before anything else. Then career will be the next priority , it will bring us the money that we can use to support the needs, our gambling profession right now is what should I call career. Put everything in moderation and the rest will follow.

But it is hard to say gambling is a career because if people are trying to use gambling for searching for money, they will not feel easy to make money. People will only lose money if they cannot play with cautious because gambling is something that they can use for having fun. Gambling will be like that, we cannot bring that money, and we should know that the family is the most important than gambling.

Money is very important nowadays. That is why we should be wise in handling it. Gambling could sometimes be a reason why we mismanage our funds especially when are addicted to it. Setting our priorities is very important to keep in track but the question is how we are seriously doing it cause it gonna be a big challenge and in most cases that we do first those who have less priority than the most important.

Would it be better if we consider our career first then family? Basically my principle in life is to first tackle all the needs of myself, especially to improve myself and if I have enough, or more than enough then I will help my family, in addition, that is the time I could spend some funds in gambling considering its risk for me to get addicted, I will enhance my self control.

Good thing if we can manage to initiate self control boost even though you're in middle of a gambling addiction. One thing that's very important in our self control was, family's important time particular on spending very memorable situations that gambling can't even buy those wasted days. Family was the most priority of all, so strive harder to make gambling to be a least priority just to overcome addiction.

If people would take gambling as only source of money they I would say that it is not a career. We dont need to stop gambling if that is our recreational activity and if makes us fun. But I think few more months from now I will stop it, since I want to have a break on it , and focus on other things. We should not get addicted on it.

Making money by playing gambling is not a problem as long as you don't prioritize it. If in an urgent situation or want something looking for money by playing gambling is the right choice you can get money easily without asking for a loan. Just don't think gambling is the main thing to get money at least you have a real job and a fixed salary to finance your future life.

I would never pursue a career of successful gambler because I'm trying to eliminate uncertainty, as much as possible, from my life, and there is a lot of uncertainty in gambling. If you have wife and kids, you are no longer risking by yourself alone, but you are putting all of them at risk. A family man just can't rely on something with so much chaos in it as gambling.

Yes, you can try to put some order in it by sharpening your skills and inventing various strategies, but that should be done for entertainment purposes only. The welfare of your family shouldn't depend on your luck.

That's pretty safe, but if you have the skills, aren't you gonna invest on it?
well, I get your point, not every gambler are willing to take that journey due to its risk level and even if we really tried our best, there's no guarantee that we will be successful in the end. I don't know, maybe it's just me, until now, I am still looking for ways to improve my skills and to be consistent as it has been a dream of mine to make big money in gambling, which until now I can't still find a clear path to walk.

Very well said, I think this is the answer that I wanted to hear about what I've posted, this is the most realistic and the accurate answer I'm waiting since I've posted this topic.

Just like what you have said, it is indeed should be done only for entertainment purposes only but beyond that, you have to think always that you have family on the line to feed and to take care of, that includes their needs and wants in life, and you can't support that if all of your money is always getting in the bankroll of any gambling sites.

P.S: gonna close this thread now.

Happy New Year guys. :)

Totally true.
Gambling shouldn't be compared to life, family and career. Not that one can not take it serious: you should, especially when you are playing it. But it's shouldn't be made a priority.
Putting gambling as a priority will easily make way for addiction.

If we arent that sensible enough then expect for these things to happen.Gotten easily addicted not only on gambling but in all sorts of hobbies or things you are involved on.
We should know on whats priority and what is not.Balance things up then you would be fine and having a good live will vary into decisions that you do made along the way.
Gambling is just for fun no strings attached and if you do treat it differently then you're in big trouble.

If we are planning for good life and good career gambling is not at all a choice for you we need to choose the best available options like service base works in crypto market.
I believe such business will be helpful than the gambling. It gives good enjoyment for the people who only cares about the fun life.

Addictions that will place your life and your family into a big disasters, you should always give much of your time and money to yourself and your family not to this kind of activities. Having some fun is good enough not to the point that you'll keep engaging yourself and keep losing your savings. Think into
a much brighter side of your life, there's a good things around you and not only gambling.

People throw around the word addiction too much.  I used to play every day for years and its not especially negative when its just a pasttime.  Its only a negative when the money is a big deal and its altering your ability to pay for basic things, the key base line for healthy use of betting platforms is only spend the spare cash, same as drinking or any luxury.

Family matters more than anything else. Money is nothing if there is no family, we earn money and we work hard because of our family, so choosing family over gambling is pretty obvious. This question may be for those too addicted to gambling who can not regulate their mind playing gambling. Perhaps choosing the two is hard for them.

Addiction occurs in various ways, some are addicted to alcohol, some to smoking, some to food, and so on. Only when you see your family suffering from your addiction does addiction become evil. So first decide what's good for your family and then think if your addiction causes your family to suffer. Then choose the right one. Thus I believe if you want to have a good life you can't be addicted to gambling

Yes, how we are serious about handling our money will be a big question and needs our attention because if it's not, we cannot hold the money in our pocket. We will always spend more and more money until all the money is gone. If we can know which is the priority in our life, and we know that gambling will be a part of life, then we will not spend much time in gambling. We can manage our time to gamble, to work, to spend for our family, so our life will be a balance.


No, I think it is hard to use gambling as a source of money. You will not have that chance because many people prove that, and they lose much money and time in gambling. That is great if you can think of a break and stop gambling because that is not good for your financial. You can prevent addicted if you can stop early.

It became negative if the addiction will lead you to choose to gamble your money than to spend it in important reason like paying bills and buying goods and services for our family. Gambling is fine as long we have control to our self, we should also have good gambling psychology in order for us to have better mindset. Why we will choose gambling over our family, those craze person will only choose gambling over their family.

You just repeated what the person above has said. Self control is hard to achieve in reality when you're addicted to gambling. Let me ask you how do you define an addicted gambler? Because there are gamblers who regularly gamble almost everyday through online or casino but they still managed to budget the cash for necessities and for luxury. Some of us here misinterpreted addicted gambler to a responsible gambler.

I'll choose both. I will live a simple life with my family and gamble. Because I can't quit gambling so easily. Gambling is like an everyday job for me. But I will try to gamble less. However, comparing the two, I will give more priority to my family. Because family is everything to me. Without gambling, I can stay but I cannot live without family. So I will try to live an average life with my family.

Thank you

im not impress that you say you choose both and you prioritize more your family but im more impress when you said that you you will live in a simple life  . i just hope that you keep that promise of yours when you already won a good amount of cash from playing  a gambling because you know most big winners were using thier money on a bad stuffs such as drugs , girls , more gambling  , etc  .  theyl end up broke forever and loosing thier minds   . we must commit a decision for a better life

This is shocking as you know what you are doing and how it can result badly in the end and still into it . Take a resolution to learn new game or a new hobby which will help you to concentrate in new things and stay away from gambling .

Gamble according to online dictionary:


The first one do not properly define gamble. I prefer the second one.
People do not realize how often they gamble in life. We take risk always for desired result. But we have to work harder and be well prepared to lessen the risk.
I believe the most skillfull/knowledgeable ones could earn a living from what the less-skillful or less knowledgeable termed gambling or random.

I prefer safe games though.

Better to gamble on things that earn you a living, in my opinion. Example, you own a successful farm and occasionally gamble on weather/rainfall or bet on competitive online farming(stimulated farming) games

You cannot really replace one permanent thing with the other that is less important such as gambling. Gambling may make you rich and wealthy but, you still cannot replace your family. Family is one's true wealth, even if you ain't got nothing your family will help you get by everyday and that makes someone truly complete.

family is the only thing that we cannot afford to lose guys,never forget that everyone will leave us but not our family,they will always keep tracking our activities because they are concern about our living habits.

i am afraid that i will choose gambling towards my family because i would rather lose everything in this world but not them.

But actually there are people who do exchange up their family due to their gambling addiction.Its an awful thing but people already done it without even
thinking carefully on whats the importance of their own family which they're always on your side in bad times and good.Life do works on that way and
if you are willing to exchange it with gambling then its your choice.

This depends on my career and if my gambling career is soaring high, I'll choose it. I'll earn as much as I can and then save for retirement and enjoy it with my family. They are my family so if I'm at the top of my career and I can make a huge bucks out of it then why shouldn't I allocate my time for it for the time being and when I'm done, I can share it to my loved ones. But if my career isn't really that good, family definitely is of the top choice not just for me but for everybody. But I don't think I'll come up into this situation.  ;D

Even if I knew I would have a brilliant career in gambling still this does not justify to exchange your family for it.A family is a family in every moment which requires support in every moment and you cannot say I will go just to become a star player and then turn back and expect things to be the same,most of the cases they are not so I would not risk my family for anything.

a pretty difficult choice, not a career like this that I was aiming for, just gambling online as usual and my wife allowed it with certain considerations. if it had been intended since the beginning, I would have even existed at the casino every day and bought a house not far from that place. Many things have changed since choosing to have a family.

We all know this is not an easy question to an addicted player since addicted player's mind is clouded and cannot see things clear.  But I can say, if it is a career that will bring benefit for you and your family, why choose from the two?  Living a good simple life is just a wishful thinking. We all know we wanted to give the best to our family.  If your career(means of living/ job) is on gambling, and it gives  you and your family a good way of living, why stop it? 

I would prefer family over gambling. This is because in the long run Gambling would bring more harm than good. Gambling is not preferable for some reasons that it might lead to addiction and hence loss of money. Family is to be kept with a person for his lifetime .A person could live without money at times but without the emotional assistance of his or her blood relations it becomes nearly impossible to survive.

If the time will come that i need to decide or choose if my career in gambling or my family. Of course, i would choose my family because it will be rude and selfish of me, if i will be choosing my addiction in gambling over to them. I will just pursue and have a good time with them because it will also be a benefit to all of us if will really choose my family.

Do you have to totally ignore your family when you're addicted to gambling? You should go home to sleep, of course, the addiction will have a way to influence your family's attention, but whatever you're addicted to should be lucrative enough to keep you paying bills and your family will agree that you're addicted to something fair and not foolish. Family is much more important, but it's not stupid if you're addicted to gambling. Just don't get too into it.

It is good to hear that you have preferred the decision of your wife over your personal choices. Gambling is not good to be kept as a career because one cannot predict what is going to happen next. Gambling is good only as a part time fun but taking it serious or getting into it with all your energy is going to bring you harm.

Making your family a priority over gambling is a good choice. Gambling is not worth opting as a career. It is not reliable because you never know whether you are going to lose or win. Therefore one must utilize his or her savings in accordance with the financial choices of familial relations .It is always a better option to seek the advice of your close relations whenever you are trying to invest your money into some productive activity.

For me family is everything and should be a top priority for me, when compared to gambling, I clearly choose family because I am not an active gambler who in my opinion is not good for me.
Although gambling income for the family is not the best choice and in the end will lose everything and will have a negative impact on the family, and many families fall apart because of gambling because they often experience defeat.

But no one agree with it that gambling can be a source of income for the living of our families because in gambling we do not get confirmed income, in gambling sometimes we win and sometimes we lose so our family members cannot survive if we feed them some days and do not feed them the other days. Many people are saying that there are other people who continuously earning from gambling but we have not saw that case everywhere.

It's not always one vs the other man. Gambling is a problem only when you start to borrow money from others to feed gambling needs and get into debt trapt but if you learn to live your consequences of gambling losses and experience it while you become mature, then surely you will never have problem with it and won't have to choose it at the expense of something else.

Very important to learned and understand the consequences and knows the proper treatment within this activities before engaging in. Gambling addictions
is the well known bad effect of this activity but if you have good knowledge you'll be able to aware yourself to place limitation and remove any unrelated emotions to keep you far from greed and uncontrolled aggression.

I will choose the family first before anything else because family is the last place to fall back to. I so much Cherish my family that; I will never use what belong to the family to another, all because I want to satisfy myself. My decision will be to embrace the family and never choose anything contrary. Life is delicate and should be handle with care.

Of course, there's no debate and options here, it's always our families that's why we've tried playing to be able to give our loved ones a better future and hope for it. There's no way anyone can prefer gambling over their families, perhaps there's but a total idiot and a total gambling addict doesn't have self-control. To have a good life you need to know when to save money and when to gamble.

Family should always be a priority. Actually, i've decided if I have my own family I will completely leave gambling wether i'm gaining a profit or not. It's not good if you have a gambling habit and at the same time a family, that will only cause into misunderstanding. But guess what I often see here in our community, those husband whose wives is in abroad often go to bar and playing gambling using the money their wives sent to them from their hard earned salary. I guess, priority depends on ones personality.

Gambling or family, obviously the chosen family. from my point of view gambling will not give you big money or happiness. many heavy gamblers / addicts even make themselves damaged with a bad mental state, I mean we often see that most of the gamblers always end badly and only a small number succeed because the betting game ends in zero (zero-sum)

If we are alone in life and nothing we know to spend in to, gambling could make us happy for a while, but it cannot escape the fact that having people around is what will make us truly happy and contented in life and gambling would just be factors on it.

It's debatable if there are certain situations that we have to consider. We thrive to work for the future of our life and as well as our family so if you're in the good race of your career why you would give it up to give them the best life that they can later? I think it's a very tricky question and you can apply every answer base on your reasoning and the possible future situation that you may see. Anyway it's an opinion based answer so there's no wrong nor correct.

I will also choose my family over gambling. We should always treasure all the memories of our family because it's more valuable than winning in gambling. Even you stop your career in gambling there is still a good opportunity for you and you just need to find a new good career where even your family will support you. Having a simple life with your family is one of the best blessings in our life that's why we should treasure it than anything.

only few people has no one besides them because we all have family and friends so if we dont have anyone meaning it is our choice and not destiny.

i hate the idea that people are playing and betting to hide from loneliness because we are the one who can decide our happiness and this cannot be bought by using gambling area.

Gambling could be just part of life and not life this if people understand many things will get resolve by its own means. Play to enjoy and have fun this will make everyone happy and less of stress too even if you lose some as you are playing for fun and not exactly for money .

I would also say that gambling is already part of my life, I am not doing it on a daily basis but I do it regularly, I mean most of the time we lose but my experience in gambling is so positive, I have more happy experience than sad that's why I still gamble until now.

other people have difference views in gambling because everyone of us has different treatment in gambling, if we are responsible, we willy surely enjoy it even for long term.

Well,,, if you want a family you better prevent the gambling addiction now rather than wait later if you are worried it will become a difficult choice. Make gambling a past time or a hobby that does not take up too much of your time, whether or not you have a family,,, whether or not you have a job. Do not wait for the need to come, just prepare for that need;)

yes you are right instead reaching at the addiction point in gambling i think a gambler should be careful from the beginning that he should not become an addict and make the gambling only a source of income, i think not only in gambling but in every field of life we should keep our family in first priority.

So if a person chooses to play gambling as a family, he should be taken to counselling because he chooses the wrong option. The family will always be on our side, but gambling can't always be on our side, particularly if we don't have money. Just need your family to help just solve your problem when you become addicted to gambling, and I'm sure the family will take care of you. But that only happens if you have a strong family feeling, and when you have problems they won't let you down.

I think we should thoroughly distinguish between how things look from within and without

The point is, it may seem to us, who have no experience in a certain field, that some folks are taking extreme amounts of risk in that field. But they may just know their thing so well that it doesn't feel even half as risky to them as it looks to us, the outsiders. And they are not gambling in the common sense of the word but rather carefully evaluating the risks and taking action only if the risk level is below a certain threshold, given their own skills and expertise


That actually confirms what I just wrote. It may look to outsiders like you are gambling, but since you know your field so well, it doesn't feel like gambling at all to you personally. Put simply, you are making appropriate decisions based on rational considerations, not luck or chance

There's a difference between a desperate gambling addict who is always trying to win the jackpot, and a professional gambler who makes a living playing Poker and Blackjack. Either way, family should always comes first and be given first priority.

Well for me I will choose both I could live simple even im playing gambling it doesn't matter at all, but if playing gambling will result to addiction and affect my life and family then that's the point I will choose whether to continue playing and get addicted more, and my family will be ruined or choose my family over my hobby. And the obvious answer I will, of course, choose my family, and for the better of my life, gambling is just one of the factor that can make you happy and entertain you, for me, I know that happiness could ruin something including my life and others around me then I will leave it and find another things that could replace it.

The professional gambler can act wisely in gambling games, so they don't have to spend all of their money to win some cash. They know when to stop the games and leave the places without any feeling, and they can control themselves in the gambling games. If they have family, they will choose family than to play gambling because they know that the family is everything for them and the family means for them. A wise man will have a right decision for a better life.

Decisions to make our better life is very hard for us to make because we don't know or predict what will happen in the next hours or seconds. To have a better life, we should all know some positive ways and things that we want in our future. Money help us in better living and also help us in financial problems. Like you, i will choose my family to have a better life with me. Material things doesnt matter anyway as long as we happy together and healthy.