this is the ramsie call of the day part of the ramsay network

joining me today is ramsay personality ken coleman debby is with us debby is in eugene

oregon hi debby how are you hi mr. Ranthe hope you're doing better than

you deserve always if you don't believe me ask people how can I help you for taking my call

I have a husband who has a gambling problem and um just can't overlook it anymore and I don't know what to do i i don't know what to do i'm

new to your program i i actually found you through him um and uh haven't started the baby steps yet

but i have been watching as much as i possibly can on shows, especially pertaining to gambling,

um, on YouTube and, uh, I'm sorry.

Other than,

other than,

how long y'all been married, hon?

36 years.

Okay.

Well, there are a lot of problems here, and I'm not going to give you a lot of good news, but I'm going to give you a lot of truth, okay?

Okay.

I've worked with addicts my entire career because 100% of addicts have financial problems.

That's truth number one.

And the truth number two is you cannot fix enough, hide enough, twist enough to beat this.

The gambling addiction is going to win you can't beat it I'm seeing you now you can't how do I budget when he's a gambling addict you can't

how do I have retirement how do I build wealth you can't because the addiction

feeds and sucks the blood out of

everything in the house. And whatever the addiction is, in this case gambling. So what I'm telling you is,

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