Everyone who has ever quit an addiction did so because they chose to quit.
If gambling addicts just have to choose not to gamble that would be a pretty easy. Dad armed with the mortgage and grocery money can just simply choose not to spend it on gambling, the children can be continued to be feed and sheltered. But this isn’t the case, dad armed with the cash being a gambling addict, there is 99% chance, gambling will be the only thing he is going to spend his money on. Tell me, where is his power to choose to gamble or not to. The gambling addicted dad will stream role the whole family along with himself.
It is not as simply as it sounds, just stop, quit, choose to quit ect….
Only through intensive intervention may dad gain some power to choose.
Anyone with a addiction of some sort knows it just doesn’t boil down to a choice. People with addictions are not in control of their ship, the captain has left. The addiction takes over the controls. Greek39