Who are we on the soccer forum?

Quote Originally Posted by Vicente87:

My real name is Vincent, 26.
I've lived 25 years in Paris suburbs, have moved since july 2013 in Geneva,Switzerland to live with my girlfriend who has a good work in one of those international organisations.
I've studied pharmacy and I work partial time, while I try to write the thesis that will give me my final diploma.
Not easy to write a thesis on your computer when you are used to gamble online, I lose quite some time.

I capped soccer only 4 years, and only 2 years seriously. I'm using preterit because I'm done with this. The only link I have kept is the CPL competition here, but I barely spend 5 or 10 minutes to decide a play.

I quit sports betting because in the last months/years, I had quit other activities/stuffs that bring me more happiness and accomplishment.

I don't have physical friends that are gambling, and it's not the kind of activity you want to share to the girl you are living with, so you end up talking with people on internet and step by step it becomes satisfying, until you open your eyes and see your life is getting emptier every day.

If I had a bad day, I was nervous in my life, and could even be a bit rude with my girlfriend if something was going wrong. I was less attentive to her, and we were having sex fewer and fewer because if I was stressed by a coming play, or pissed by a past result, I had no desire.

I know I'm going in a lot of details but I just want people that will recognize themselves in what I'm talking about, to just quit this poor activity.

I respect the people that gamble as a living but still manage a well-balanced life.

Fact is, I was doing it as the main leisure time so it was either working time or gambling and at the end of day/week, when you talk to people, you notice you have nothing interesting to share.

I've quit for 3 weeks now and I don't feel any need for it so I'm quite satisfied.
I'm back at doing sport during free-time and as an ex-high level sportsman ( 1st cat cyclist at the age of 18-19) it brings me a lot of self-esteem back. I can even share it with my girlfriend as she is starting to like running and hiking.
We live in a beautiful place, with green mountains, lakes, pure air and it's a joy to spend time in this nature wether walking, bicycling or even swimming.

Again, I have nothing but respect to the life of a gambling man if he's happy at it and enjoy his leisure time.

Cheers to everyone that will read this and understand what I was feeling.