How Can I Rebuild Trust After a Gambling Addiction?

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🗓️ 3 March 2026

⏱️ 126 minutes

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0:00.0	Brought to you by the Every Dollar app. Start budgeting for free today.
0:13.0	Normal is broken. Common sense is weird. So we're here to help you transform your life. From the Ramsey Network and the Fair Winds Credit Union Studio.
0:22.0	This is The Ramsey Show. I'm Dave Ramsey, your host, Jade Washaw, number one bestselling
0:27.3	author and Ramsey personality is my co-host today. Open phones here at AAA 825-5-225.
0:36.1	The call is free and some say the advice is worth exactly what you pay for it.
0:40.9	Chris is going to start us off in Chicago. Hey, Chris. How are you?
0:45.0	I'm doing well. Good. What's up?
0:48.2	So about 12 years ago, I used gambling as a coping mechanism. And what was a social thing became an addiction.
1:00.6	After about 10 years, I realized that, or after two years, I realized the trouble I was in. And I tried
1:08.2	to fix it on my own.
1:13.9	It didn't go particularly well.
1:18.2	My wife discovered my gambling about eight years ago, so two years after that.
1:22.7	And I did do the work.
1:27.3	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 just put it squarely on her shoulders.
1:35.3	Now, I did the work.
1:39.3	I was already in the process of wanting to undo what I had done.
1:45.4	I just wasn't at the place where I trusted the Lord to help me save my family.
1:56.4	And so I didn't confess it to her.
2:00.0	When it finally came out, I did the work.
2:03.2	I spent a year and a half.
2:05.1	I paid off all the debt.
2:06.4	I put a significant sum in a savings account that she only had control over.
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