Columnist and trained counsellor Fiona Caine answers another set of reader dilemmas

After almost two years of lying to me, my husband finally owned up recently to the fact he has a gambling problem. I suppose I should have suspected something was wrong sooner. Although we were both working, our joint bank account was forever overdrawn and we struggled to pay our utility bills. We never had any money, and he always found a reason not to buy things.