Can Our Marriage Survive My Gambling Addiction?

The Dr. John Delony Show

Ramsey Network

Relationships, Mental Health, Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 7.4K Ratings

🗓️ 1 June 2026

⏱️ 57 minutes

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0:00.0	This is an ad for BetterHelp.
0:01.9	You work hard to be the strong one for everyone else, but you're running on empty.
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0:11.8	Go to betterhelp.com slash Deloney for 10% off.
0:16.1	I've kind of always had a little bit of a gambling itch, but recently it's kind of gotten to a point where it's just kind of ruining my life.
0:24.6	I can see, I can kind of just see where it's going.
0:27.5	Yeah.
0:28.2	Because I have no control of it.
0:30.2	I can't hold on to money.
0:31.5	How big of a hole have you dug yourself?
0:41.1	Yo, yo, what's up?
0:43.3	This is John with the Dr. John Aloney's show.
0:51.8	Comedy from Nashville, Tennessee, taking your calls on life and relationships and marriage and kids and your mental and emotional health.
0:52.6	All of it.
1:11.6	If you want to be on this show, I'd love to have you. Click the link in the show notes, and it'll go to Kelly, the Overlord, and she will get you on the show. Let's go to Cincinnati, Ohio, and talk to Andrew. Hey, Andrew, what's up, brother? Hi, how are you? Thank you so much for taking the time you got it man what's going on well recently like i mean i've kind of always had a little bit of a gambling itch
1:18.8	but recently it's kind of gotten to a point where it's just kind of ruining my life
1:24.0	and i don't i don't seem to be able to stop it. And some things that really happened recently that my wife, you know, it just kind of
1:32.3	just feels like my wife might be getting to that point where it's like, do this or this,
1:36.3	you know.
1:37.3	She doesn't really said anything, but it's just that's how it feels and I don't know how to stop.
1:42.3	Okay, can I, let me stop right there.
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