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Take a moment....
Hulky52, what are your current methods of managing your addiction(s)? Are you engaged in strong counseling therapy and support groups? Are you attempting to manage this on your own? Has your family suffered because of your addiction(s)? Has there been financial stress because of your gambling? Have you ever lied to hide your addiction(s) and/or the consequences of the addiction(s)? What do you mean that you are "....lambasting (you) if (you) gamble....?" Are they not "allowed" to be fed up and angry?
Support is not always warm and fuzzy, Hulky52. Sometimes, support is saying, "NO, I won't have any more of that," and sticking to it. Sometimes, support is downright harsh. If you were experiencing true domestic abuse, your family would more likely be setting you up - setting you up - to slip and fall in your addiction. They would be ENABLING your addiction so that they could verbally abuse you with a handy-dandy excuse to do so. As for family members and their "trust issues," when strong healing is taking place, an addict understands and accepts how these trust issues developed and they learn how to not take offense at having to earn that priceless trust back. A person's word is their bond - how many times did you make promises that you either couldn't keep or never intended to keep due to your addiction(s)? Take a moment and think about it from outside of the bubble of YOU.
Hulky52, there are MANY, many support groups and strong counseling therapists out there that address addictions of ALL kinds. Perhaps, it might be a "good" decision to engage in some of that for yourself.
My very best wishes to you in your recovery