Arnie Wexler's compulsive gambling spiraled out of control....after forty-plus years in recovery, he's become a nationally known expert on gambling addiction.

Wexler's life as a gambler began on the streets of Brooklyn, New York, flipping cards, shooting marbles, and playing pinball machines. At age fourteen he found the racetrack, a bookie, and started playing the stock market. His obsession with gambling accelerated until a fateful day in 1968 when it all came crashing down.

Wexler's gripping narrative leads us through the dungeon of a compulsive gambler's world—chasing the big win and coming up with empty pockets—and how his addiction drove him and his wife, Sheila, to the edge of life. With help, they managed to escape, and together they have devoted themselves to helping others with the problem they know so well.

All Bets Are Off provides a revealing picture of how the often hidden addiction of compulsive gambling ravages the lives of both the addict and those around him or her. It is a brutal cautionary tale, and also an inspiring story of hope and healing for anyone affected by problem gambling.

An essential recovery tool for compulsive gamblers, this book offers hope, support, and guidance. Addressing the issues and fears facing compulsive gamblers in recovery, these books remind readers of progress made and work yet to be done.

Gamblers Anonymous is a voluntary fellowship of compulsive gamblers gathered for the sole purpose of helping themselves and each other to stop gambling. It is a program of 12 steps that provide a framework of hope, structure and friendship for those who have lived the program and successfully adapted to life. This book describes the routes on the road to this successful adaptation to a life without gambling.

As the title says, this books is about identifying why relationships are unhealthy, and what makes unhealthy relationships attractive. It outlines addictive behavior patterns as well as the link between childhood relationships and later choices.

When love hurts, you may wonder about your choice of romantic partners or risky sexual behaviors. Perhaps, like many others, you’re experiencing the raw pain of an addictive relationship―the kind that’s painful to be in, yet seemingly impossible to leave. A profound sense of emptiness can result. Repeatedly, you may feel pain, anger, and confusion rather than what you truly desire: closeness, warmth, and security. You may feel broken. The more you search for the comfort of closeness and safety, the deeper you sink into the quicksand of despair. As you read through the pages in this book, you will discover what happens when love and sex―our most primitive human needs―becomes a drug.

Change the way you love, breakup with toxic relationships, end the shame spiral, and discover the key to secure, nurturing, and lasting connections.

Are you stuck in the cycle of “failed” relationships and are constantly worried you are unlovable or will never find true love? Do you find yourself overly needy or unable to communicate your needs properly in your relationships…always anxious when you are apart from your partner? Has your relationship with your parents negatively impacted your romantic relationships? If so, you may be stuck in a cycle of love addiction.

Weaving together attachment theory, vulnerability, codependency, and generational trauma, this groundbreaking bestseller unravels the intricate dynamics of toxic relationships and shows us how to let go of toxic love. Pia Mellody combines more than 15 years treating addictions at the Meadows Treatment Center in Arizona, to help cure fears of abandonment and intimacy and curb harmful, self-victimizing patterns and modes of detachment.

Wherever you are in your love journey, this book will allow you to break dysfunctional and addictive patterns in relationships and definitively alter the way you view your partners, and yourself. Stop letting fear and self-doubt hold you back from the love you deserve—it could be right in front of you.