I know your situation very well.. maybe it might be the right decicion to tell your girlfriend about, your problem. Cause she probably feels that there is something wrong with you, and youre hiding something. My boyfriend feeld aboutly that something ist there, that i am not showing to him. This topic creates a emotional distance between you and her. As i told my boyfriend, it felt like a big wall broke down that i have built up over the time. It makes it more Real. my mom told me once, “Truth can always be told to everyone everytime”. Everything else is an Illusion. To stop gambling, one really important step is to show your problem to the people arround you. I read a lot about it, and that is the point i always read by everyone who got away from problem gambling.. my english is not the best im from Austria;)
