Good wives/husbands do not allow a family to break up because of any addictions of one family member. Such problems need to be solved together because a gambling addict is not able to cope alone. If the family is falling apart then it is likely that there are more serious problems within the family than gambling addiction.
This kind of awareness should be applied by everyone, not stay away from an addicted family member. but problems like this are sometimes inversely proportional and people who become addicted will feel isolated and even shunned by other family members.
and what happens is that it is true that it will be very difficult for the addict to change his attitude and even more so when this (shunned family) happens.
at least a moral approach and motivational advice will be more useful than rejection
You cant really blame out those family members because majority of them wont really be that aware that one of the family is already addicted to gambling unless if they do really have some tracks
about his activity or aware that they've been doing gambling then they would surely be having some hint on whats going on but if not then its really hard to determine if they do really have some problems
or not.
You cant definitely tell if someone is already addicted to gambling if they do play silently.Its true that as part of family we should really be sensible into these kind of things.