Quote from: bakasabo on Today at 08:32:30 AM

Quote from: swogerino on May 12, 2024, 04:37:53 PM

Quote from: bakasabo on May 12, 2024, 07:05:35 AM

Since gambling has some kind of a negative reputation built with years, then people will also talk negatively about me gambling. I and nobody likes to hear anything negative about them. That is why I would avoid such conversations or try to stop them early. I dont want to hear how «bad» I am. I wont care about what people say, because I would not hear or listen to this conversation, or will never know that they talk about me gambling.

I didn't care when I was young,didn't have my own family and used to go in landline casinos back at that time.People kept talking the worse about anyone who gambled at that time,it kept coming at me unless online gambling come to the rescue so I changed although not for real,I started going to church in on Sundays until people changed opinion about me as I could not get married otherwise,so I only started to gamble online and now I still do,I never go to a landline casino because people can start again,while I have my own family now and living happily with them,my wife knows about my online gambling and is the only one.I don't care much about people opinion but once it gets repeated so often it becomes a burden which is better to throw away.

You say that you never cared about people talking about you gambling, but from your post it looks that you care and you do it a lot. Look how your gambling habit has changed, you have switched from offline to online. You feel uncomfortable when people discuss your gambling activity, and you even went to church to create a different vision of yourself. And that is only what you have mentioned, as I feel like you have others examples how people influence on your gambling passion.

They said there was a point in time in which they did not care about what people said about their gambling, but apparently they live in a society which looks down on gamblers so much this was affecting their marriage prospects, so they had to care and show they had changed, and now they are back to not caring as they can gamble online and no one will find out, and to me this makes sense, because we do not live on the middle of nowhere so we can completely disregard the opinion of others, and as long as we live in a civilized society we must abide to its social customs, or at least pretend to, and online gambling allows those that may be judged negatively for it to avoid that judgment.