My Boyfriend Has A Serious Gambling Problem

• My Boyfriend Has A Serious Gambling Problem Solving
• My Boyfriend Has A Serious Gambling Problem Involving

I am very mad but also worried and i need advice.

I'm worried my partner has a gambling problem Gambling is often described as ‘the hidden addiction’. Unlike substance misuse or sex addiction, it can be much easier to hide the signs of problem gambling from other people. This is particularly true now online gambling is so widely accessible and popular. My boyfriend is turning 21 in a few days. We’ve been together for 5 years, and the past 2 years have been awful for his gambling addiction. He has lost up to 10k in the years previous, but the last two years he lost 50K, then won 110k, and now he is down to 50K. Tonight he lost 13k within an hour.

About a year or two back my boyfriend started gambling alot, he was paid weekly and every friday would go out with the boys at work to william hill and gamble, at that time he had money to do it so i never noticed although he told me after he had before gambled his whole weeks wages. I felt i couldn't be mad at him as it was his money and he told me he would only gamble when he had the money to do so.

My Boyfriend Has A Serious Gambling Problem Solving

My Boyfriend Has A Serious Gambling Problem Involving

He quit his job and after that i didn't notice his gambling as much although he used to do it online and football bets, he would sometimes lie to me about borrowing money from people and it was once 'accidently' taken out of my account for online gambling. Every time i tried to talk to him he would get angry at me and just tell me it was a thing he enjoyed doing, and it was now only 10/20 pounds or so a week on football bets.
He recently moved in with me but with no job as he has been looking for one, in that time i have been supporting him with buying food etc. It has been quite tough as i havent got much money myself and have got annoyed at him for me having to pay out for everything. He has also been borrowing money from me to go out and the past two weeks he hasnt had a pound to his name so yet again i've paid for everything. Yesterday he asked me if he could go put a football bet on as he had 3 pounds which he found in his jacket. I told him he could. Later that night i had gone into his pocket and there was his football slip, he snatched it out of my hand and i eventually got it out of him that it was a 20 pound bet which he said he had found 'in his account.' I don't know where this money had come from and i am so angry that if he had found that 20 pounds he could of given it to me to help out with the expenses. I am at the end now and don't know what to do.