This research examined how partners’ coping strategies can impact the person with gambling problems. Results indicated that there were many strategies that partners used when trying to reduce gambling. Some strategies were successful (e.g., communicating distress), but others might unintentionally increase gambling behaviour (e.g., constantly checking on the gamblers’ behaviours). In most cases, the person who gambled and their partner had similar views on the impact of the strategies used. In other cases, there were discrepancies between what the gamblers thought versus what their partners thought.
