I Discovered My Husband’s Secret in Vegas

The Dr. John Delony Show

Ramsey Network

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

4.8 • 5.9K Ratings

🗓️ 16 July 2025

⏱️ 48 minutes

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0:00.0	I then got into the bank account and did some digging and discovered that he had gone to the casino 17 times in the previous month.
0:14.0	He had spent almost $3,000 at the casino.
0:17.4	By the end of the day, I want every single credit report pulled on everybody.
0:21.0	Okay.
0:21.5	You don't fully know how bad this is.
0:28.9	What's up? What's up? This is John with the Dr. John Deloney show coming to you from Nashville,
0:34.1	Tennessee, taking your calls on your marriage, your kids, your mental and emotional health, whatever you got going on in your life.
0:41.9	Go to john Deloney.com slash ask ASK and fill out the form and we will get you loaded in.
0:49.4	And I'd love to have you on the show. Real people are going through really tough challenges.
0:54.3	All right. Chicago, Illinois. Let's talk to Elise. What's up, Elise?
0:58.2	Hi there. How's it going? I'm doing all right. How about you?
1:01.2	I'm doing pretty good. What's up?
1:03.7	So, my question is how to kind of support and navigate a spouse that has a gambling problem.
1:11.6	Oh, gosh. What a nightmare.
1:13.6	I know. Not a fun one.
1:14.6	How bad is it?
1:16.6	Well, just a little backstory.
1:19.6	He, we've been married a long time since high school.
1:24.6	We've been together since high school, but he always managed all of the finances.
1:29.9	So I never even really paid too much attention. I never logged into the bank account, nothing.
1:36.5	I kind of had blinders on, I guess. And so fast forward to probably about a year or two ago, I started getting that feeling of like,
1:47.1	okay, we make decent money, but like we never have any money. We're always scraping by.
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