How do you explain losing your payday at the casino?

[Vaculin]

Picture this...  it’s payday, you’re married with kids, and your wife’s at home taking care of everything. You’re just planning to give her the money, but your office mates invite you for a few drinks, you know, the usual payday night out.

But after a few bottles everyone’s looking for more fun so you all end up at the casino, you play a bit, lose a little, try to win it back… and before you know it, your whole salary’s gone.

Now you’re heading home broke, and as a husband and father, how do you even explain that to your wife waiting at home with your kids?

Would you be honest, or would you make an excuse?

[Oshosondy]

It happened to someone that you know?

The first mistake is that the person gambled with the money that he can not afford to lose. But maybe I am not right because the money can be small for the person and use it to gamble.

But the person supposed not to gamble more than 1 to 2% of his salary if he can not afford to lose the money.

He has kids and wife to take care of, if he gamble with all the money and his family really depends on it, he is an irresponsible father and husband.

He will not be able to tell his wife but he must provide for his family.

[Free Market Capitalist]

I don't explain it because it hasn't happened to me and it's not going to happen to me. The best thing you can do in life is to set the conditions so that your life doesn't go to hell because of one night's screw-up. This applies to gambling as well as other aspects of life. In your example, you talk about someone who loses his paycheck at the casino. It hasn't happened to me and it won't happen to me, as I said, but if it did happen, I have a lot more set aside in my emergency fund and investments that I could use to pay for the month's expenses, so it wouldn't be a big deal.

[Questat]

Be honest with your wife and admit to yourself that you need some help. You’re probably dealing with some mental issue because imagine, your lifeline is gambling. It’s fine to relax, we all need that after working hard, but if you’re the type who loses control when drunk and forgets to be responsible, then it’s better not to drink outside to avoid making mistakes like that again.

[kotajikikox]

Picture this...  it’s payday, you’re married with kids, and your wife’s at home taking care of everything. You’re just planning to give her the money, but your office mates invite you for a few drinks, you know, the usual payday night out.

But after a few bottles everyone’s looking for more fun so you all end up at the casino, you play a bit, lose a little, try to win it back… and before you know it, your whole salary’s gone.

Now you’re heading home broke, and as a husband and father, how do you even explain that to your wife waiting at home with your kids?

Would you be honest, or would you make an excuse?

What kind of excuse will you even come up with losing your entire salary that easily? No matter what excuse you make up also, you will have to find a way to pay for the month's bills and you would have to tell your partner otherwise. Maybe if you have savings you can get from there and not tell her but just make sure this won't be a habit.

[Cryptmuster]

Picture this...  it’s payday, you’re married with kids, and your wife’s at home taking care of everything. You’re just planning to give her the money, but your office mates invite you for a few drinks, you know, the usual payday night out.

But after a few bottles everyone’s looking for more fun so you all end up at the casino, you play a bit, lose a little, try to win it back… and before you know it, your whole salary’s gone.

Now you’re heading home broke, and as a husband and father, how do you even explain that to your wife waiting at home with your kids?

Would you be honest, or would you make an excuse?

Well first of all, living from paycheck to paycheck is already a sentence. If your whole family depends on one salary, then you urgently need to change something in your life. If it happens that you go to a casino drunk and lose all your money, of course, you have to admit it, because that’s already a problem that needs to be controlled. I think a gambler should have one clear rule, never play when you’ve been drinking, especially when you’ve just received your paycheck.

[Text]

If it were me I’d probably take a deep breath & be straight about it. No point in hiding something that’ll come out sooner/later & lying would just make things worse. I’d admit I messed up, take responsibility & promise it won’t happen again then find a way to make up for it even if it means cutting back hard next month but yeah that kind of moment really hits you with a lesson, easy come easy go. Once you’ve felt that regret you’ll think twice before letting the thrill take over again.

[Dr.Bitcoin_Strange]

Explaining this will really be difficult for someone that was hoped on by his wife and kid. I don't really think I can find myself in such a mess because I have already learned not to be compulsive in gambling, I set target before I start playing and the moment I exhaust my allocation without winning from it, am leaving without hesitation. That's how I have been gambling for more than two years now. The man was actually careless, so it's left for him to tell the wife the truth.

[CryptSafe]

I don't think I can make such a silly mistake when I have a family dependent on me and responsibilities to take care of. At first, setting boundaries should be a thing which must be done so that you do not get yourself entangled in such a situation. If you are a gambler, and you know that such happens often that you always go to gamble payday, what you have to do is to set a little percentage which you could exercise self control over at that moment of fun and be disciplined enough to walk away when you have exhausted your gambling quota for the period.
Such mistake is unacceptable behaviour to the family as there is no excuse to justify such act from anybody who behaves in such a manner. The family must be catered for and that should be the first thing every reasonable and responsible man should have in mind upon receiving their paycheck.

[iv4n]

Don't put yourself in that situation, and you won't have to explain anything...

And what's there to explain? Anyone with half a brain would be embarrassed and call themselves the biggest fool on earth. After that, you can only be quiet and let the rage of the family break on you... of course, while thinking how to fix the situation.

We don't have to comment on people without a brain... we can't expect anything smart & normal from them.

[giammangiato]

Picture this...  it’s payday, you’re married with kids, and your wife’s at home taking care of everything. You’re just planning to give her the money, but your office mates invite you for a few drinks, you know, the usual payday night out.

But after a few bottles everyone’s looking for more fun so you all end up at the casino, you play a bit, lose a little, try to win it back… and before you know it, your whole salary’s gone.

Now you’re heading home broke, and as a husband and father, how do you even explain that to your wife waiting at home with your kids?

Would you be honest, or would you make an excuse?

Considering that such a situation is impossible in my case, I never go out with colleagues because it is already enough for me to put up with them at work and I don't intend to put up with them outside too.
My luck is that I share everything with my wife, if in life you decide to become a parent you absolutely have a great responsibility on your shoulders and children come first.
If you go and squander your salary doing evenings with friends you are irresponsible and you don't deserve to be a parent.

[Sim_card]

I will be ashamed of myself and start sorting out other means to take care of my family responsibility. I will get money from somewhere else and give to her the next day. As for that night, I don't know what I will tell her because it hasn't happened to me. Maybe, come up with an excuse.

[TopTort777]

If such thing would really happens to me, I would be honest and explain everything, then I would go and do shameful activity of asking to borrow me money.

But ! That will never happen to me. First of all I am not so crazy gambler to gamble whole monthly salary (I am greedy to spend so much money in one day on entertainment ). Even if somehow that happens to me, lets say I have lost, robbed, spent monthly salary in one day, I have money on a balance. I dont live from salary to salary. Different money sources, savings. All that can help to fix situation.

Making an excuse ? I would not do that, as that wont help in such situation.

[mitchr4]

Honestly, I would never try to double my payday or gamble it away. I also stay away from drinking and getting drunk  it’s bad for health and just messes with mind.

Since I got married and had kids, the way I see money has really changed. Every payday, I usually save it or give it to my wife. She’s much better at managing our money and making sure our family has everything we need.

[MainIbem]

Would you be honest, or would you make an excuse?

I can't imagine myself in such situation, imagine going home to my spouse to let her know how I lavished the money for our upkeep on gambling, it would be so embarrassing and I'll look irresponsible to my family especially my kids so I'll just save myself the shame and embarrassemt and learn from my mistake, they're bound to happen but learning to avoid them or learn from them they have is what matters. Anyways in a case whereby I chose to be honest, I'll only be honest with my wife since she's the most matured and could tolerate my silly behaviour.

[michellee]

I can not explain to my husband if that happened to me. Only regret and feel sorry that I will tell my husband and hope he can understand me. But after what we have passed through together, he will understand me and search for other ways so we can still have money.

That is difficult but you need to explain without lying to your family. Lie will not escape you from the real matter but only bring you to a hard situation. One lie will cover another lie. So honestly will be the best thing you can do.

[xenomorfo]

Picture this...  it?s payday, you?re married with kids, and your wife?s at home taking care of everything. You?re just planning to give her the money, but your office mates invite you for a few drinks, you know, the usual payday night out.

But after a few bottles everyone?s looking for more fun so you all end up at the casino, you play a bit, lose a little, try to win it back? and before you know it, your whole salary?s gone.

Now you?re heading home broke, and as a husband and father, how do you even explain that to your wife waiting at home with your kids?

Would you be honest, or would you make an excuse?

It's an ugly scene, but i can tell you that it's difficult for someone who doesn't play too often to spend their entire salary, at least in the experience of the people I've met.
People who gamble away their entire salary or even their house are people who have serious gambling problems.

[Cointxz]

Would you be honest, or would you make an excuse?

If I will have a way to get funds in exchange to what I lose I believe I will not tell it especially if the losses is just a mistake due to alcohol.

In reality, there’s no I will experience this way back when I’m still a corporate worker because my ATM being handle by my wife. She directly manage our funds and just give me an allowance that I use for my daily spendings.

[|MINER|]

I hope that such a situation never comes into my life, and since I have never been in such a situation, I cannot say what my real response to this situation would be at this time.

However, in this situation, what I could have done was to take a loan from someone I knew and try to get through that month. At the same time, even if I didn't tell my family right away, I would have tried to explain it to them at a later time. Still, I will say again that I should not get into such a situation And always be able to gamble within your own control.

[Natalim]

If that happened to me, I wouldn’t go home right away because my wife might kill me. I’d just sleep it off first, let the drunkenness fade, then come up with an excuse and try to borrow some money so I’d have something to give. It’s a bit embarrassing, yeah, but at least that way I could survive and stay alive, though I’m gonna be stuck with a loan because of that mistake.