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About 12 years ago, I used gambling as a coping mechanism.

And what was a social thing became an addiction.

After about 10 years, I realized that, or after two years, I realized the trouble I was in,

and I tried to fix it on my own. It didn't go particularly well. My wife discovered my gambling

about eight years ago, so two years after that. And I did do the work. It was a

traumatic and absolutely brutal situation for her to be in because all the, as you know,

my confession took the load off of me, but it just put it squarely on her shoulders. Now, I did the work.

I was already in the process of wanting to do, undo what I had done.

I just wasn't at the place where I trusted the Lord to help me save my family.

Okay. help me save my family. And so I didn't confess it to her.

When it finally came out, I did the work.

I spent a year and a half.

I paid off all the debt.

I put a significant sum in a savings account that she only had control over.

Therapy every week.

GA.

And it got to a point where even my therapist said, you know, I think you're in a good

place with a gambling.

I don't think you need my therapy for that,

but I'm willing to help you with my marriage.

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