As with any addiction, the effects of addiction to games of chance and betting do not fall on the gambler alone. It affects the family, friends, relatives, and everyone around him, and may lead to the deterioration of their conditions.
It negatively affects social relationships and at the marital level. Pathological gambling can be described as a side relationship. The gambler invests his attention in gambling at the expense of the spouse, whom he sometimes repays to cover his infidelity. The marital relationship is destabilized against a background of lack of trust, helplessness, and anxiety about what will happen in the future.
But why do people always avoid talking about the good side of gambling, but rather focus on the bad side, e.g whereby a man gambles, lost all his savings and family perish. Why do we always avoid the good angle such as whereby a man through his winning gotten from gambling, he is able to establish business for his wife, buy a new house and live a good life. Why do we always avoid such stories? Because the truth of the fact is that is a man who lacks self-control while gambling, so will he lack self-control while venturing into other things, hence, gambling shouldn't always be the cause when a grown-up man fails to take full responsibility of his own actions.
Because in fact there are more bad sides than positive sides, you should be able to judge for yourself how gambling is played by irresponsible people, causing addiction and ultimately harming their families and the families have to bear the burden of the addict themselves. While the positive side or people who true success in gambling can be counted on the fingers of one's fingers, while there are more people who feel disadvantaged, so it's natural that more people talk about the bad side of gambling than the good side of gambling, because if lots of people talk about the good side of gambling, it will lead to more people being trapped. who gamble and not everyone is able to control themselves when they start playing, especially if they don't have any experience.
Indeed, there is still a positive side to gambling if they are able to really take advantage of it, such as using their winnings to build a business or buy a vehicle and use it for work, but if they use their winnings just to have fun, of course that is not a positive side. But unfortunately not many people are truly lucky in gambling, most of them experience losses. Some go bankrupt and don't have anything and there are also those who borrow millions just because they are too caught up in losing and in the end they become homeless and unable to pay back the money.