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My wife tolerates my play now.

In the beginning she hated it. My comoputer is in our living room and I often play in her presence. I block out my surronds when I play and therefore I rarely hear her when she asks me a question and this drives her crazy. She feels very strongly that the money I'm making isn't worth my not being present enough. A few months ago we made an agreement that I would only play late at night, after the kids were in bed. This has helped a lot. I now usually only play between 10:00pm and 3:00am. She's usually alseep most of that time. Now she only whines when I'm useless in the morning because I stayed up too late getting drunk playing poker (this is a typical Saturday morning for me). We really need the extra income and I've had the opportunity to bail us out of some real financial troubles. I think she looks at it like I do now. It's a second job and the money is reliable. She has definitely gotten over her fear that I will someday "lose it all" and knows my system is working though she can't fathom how.