Dear Queenie,
My husband likes to play the numbers games and spends a lot of money doing it, but he doesn’t win anything very often, not nearly as much as he spends. I’m afraid he will use up all our retirement money on the games.
I tried to talk to him about this but he just got mad at me.
Queenie, what should I do?—Gambler’s wife
Dear Wife,
First, talk to a financial adviser about ways to protect your retirement funds, and your pension, if you have one, from your husband’s gambling.
Then try to get your husband to go for counselling about his gambling habit (addiction?) and, whether he goes for counselling or not, go yourself for help in dealing with his behaviour.
