Hi Kolberg,
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nSo you are lucky your friend isn’t gambling at the moment?
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nMake your own luck. We don’t have to have the strength to turn down gambling invites – if we tell our friends that we have decided to stop gambling then we wont get those invites! 🙂
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nUp to you if you tell them anything about your problem but I would say it is important to tell them that you no longer gamble, otherwise those invites will keep coming. Lot’s of people don’t gamble or stop gambling for lots of reasons.
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nDraw the line. Don’t make any “I can’t come this week because……” excuses or there is no reason for them to not ask you the next time. “I don’t gamble” stops the invites. “I’m not interested” stops the gambling conversations.
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nIt would also be a good idea to exclude from the casino that your friends usually go to.