It's a great idea to stop playing when you understand the dependence on this. We don't have to forget about real life and our ambitions we have in it.
Gambling should be aimed at fun and not at how people can make money. It is not a source of money for someone going to the casino in a blue moon. Leaving aside professional poker players those who gamble just do it out of greed. They want to make some quick cash and thus they are visiting the site.
Obviously their real life and its conditions are much more important than that. We have to accept it like that and not allow gambling to become an addiction. Becoming dependent on the site is a sign that addiction is starting to set in. That must be stopped before it becomes a full-blown addiction.
I wonder why that fun aspect of gambling is so hard for some people to wrap their minds and head around. This is why it will always be very hard for some people to see taking a break from gambling as something that is impossible to do because they are so engrossed in whatever they want to believe in.
What the OP did is simply an attribute of someone who is in control, but indeed I was not surprised when some people started taking it the wrong way.