A netizen shared a story about her friend who is addicted to gambling and heavily in debt.
She shared that her friend, Jamie (names have been changed to protect their identities), has incurred heavy debts from gambling and on top of that, still needs to provide for her children, who have no father.
Here is the story:
“I’ve known Jamie ever since we were in secondary school.
She was the sweetest girl back in the day, and was the kindest human being I’ve known.
But she met this guy, Daryl (name also changed to protect their identities), during her time in poly and she became a different person.
She started dating him and he got her pregnant, soon she gave birth to a healthy baby boy and they were gonna raise a family together.
She then got pregnant again a year later and gave birth to another baby boy, but the guy dumped her and left her alone with the 2 kids.
She soon dropped out of poly and started working part time.
It was during the 2018 world cup when she started betting on football matches, at first she won a few hundred dollars out of luck.
She then got addicted and started gambling more heavily, playing baccarat and mahjong and other gambling games.
She started losing money and soon borrowed money from everyone, including me, to continue her gambling habit, telling us that she needed the money for her kids when in fact she took it to gamble.
She thought that she could win back all the money that she lost but our advice fell on deaf ears.
She soon incurred debts of about $30k.
She came to me to borrow money again a few months ago and we had a little talk where I told her that if she continues her way, she will end up gambling away her life.
She then said that if only she had aborted her children when she was pregnant, she wouldn’t be in debt.
I haven’t seen her since then and I’m getting kinda worried.
Any advice on how to save her?”
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