Gambling itself may have a null or minimal impact on relationships. Sometimes it might even feel like it’s facilitating a closer relationship with someone as it may provide a common activity to do. As gambling progresses and if it is a part of Addiction, it can become quite destructive to external relationships with others, as well as one’s relationship with self. Gambling Addiction can result in isolation, financial turmoil, lies, secrecy, manipulation, shame and more; all of which can slowly erode the foundations of trust, intimacy and security in connection. This is the reason that recovery action is so important for problem gamblers as it will benefit not only the individual, but the relationships they are engaged in as well.