gambling

[shellyr1989]

posting for my sister..she has been seeing her bf for 3 years.. they get on well for the most part but something happened today that changed everything.. so long story short she knows bf always liked a gamble was always made out to be casual.. she has her sons first communion in may so has been saving money for this this past while and keeping it in a small tin in her kitchen roughly 700 pound.. long story short only person that knew money was in this tin was was her bf.. she got up this morning and realised tin had moved slighlty..kids cannot reach it its up high..so a few hours after this bf says hes going bookies to place a few bets on horses.. while he left she had the urge to check the tin and 100 pound was missing from it..confronts him when he comes home he admits it saying he had planned to just put it back..obviously this is not ok. in our eyes this is stealing.. her money they dont live together.. can people even recover from a gambling addiction or wud this be a sign of whats to come if she stuck around with him

That's the best £100 she's ever lost. Dump.

Gambling and stealing often go together.

He's a thief.

She needs to dump him firmly and tell him that if he doesn't repay it, she will contact the police, and mean it.

Steal from a child is not unknown.

The depths that addiction will reduce a person to, is the gutter, and also those around them, if allowed.

He should never be allowed enter her home again.

@FunnyFunn is right, if the stolen £100 makes her break up with him it will probably save her thousands in the long term. Gamblers always think the next big win will pay back all their losses but it rarely happens even if they do win they just gamble ut all away

Of course she needs to walk away and not look back.
The richest woman in England is one Denise Coates, the owner of Bet365 online gambling ( nice to give people a day off every 4 years). Her personal wealth is more than £2 billion and her family’s ( all gambling based ) is around £8 billion. Last year she payed herself £250 million. For comparison, King Charles’s wealth is estimated at 1.8 billion.
The gambling companies don’t make their money by providing a service or valued product, but by legally stealing money off addicts.

He's a thieve and a gambler. You can't trust either. He stole from her child technically.
He's got no morals.

Do you say the same about pubs?