Gemma D's story

What is the answer? Together for seven years with a gambler. Before we married I was promised he wouldn't gamble.

Before we started trying for a baby I was promised he wouldn't gamble, and now my daughter is one, I have been let down again.

These stories are amazing and I wish I had the strength to move on with me and my amazing little girl but other than the gambling everything is perfect!

Counselling, taking bank cards away and Gamblers Anonymous meetings haven't touched my husband. He is in love with machines more than me and his daughter. I worry about life without him but is that the only option now?

Wish someone could tell me the answer. I don't want my daughter's mummy and daddy not to be together but then again it can't go on like this as she is missing out.

I have read other people's stories – 15 years with a gambler husband – and I don't intend to be one of them as seven years has broken me inside and out.

Think the worst thing is nobody knows. Sister, mum, best friend – no-one! That's going to be the hardest thing I just need to find it in myself somewhere to move on as someone said before … 'You only get one life'.