It has previously been suggested that Artificial Intelligence (AI) could be used in a number of ways to bring significant benefits to the Family Justice System. Last week we have seen the potential of this as Dr Craig Childress, registered Clinical Psychologist in the USA has released an AI called Eliza to the world. Eliza …
RTL News This month Right to Love writes with concern on an issue the general public is unaware of. It impacts all parents and children. The government are working on proposals to further erode the rights of all parents and children to a relationship after divorce/separation. We have started an official parliamentary petition and ask …
The government has opened a public Consultation on the standards required for expert witnesses: proposed Practice Direction changes. Submissions must be submitted to the Secretary to the Family Procedure Rule Committee by 5pm on Friday 6 June 2025. The following is the response provided by Right to Love
Nothing is more important to a child’s emotional, psychological and physical development than the relationship they have with their parents. Right to Love ask you to sign our petition to get the government to commit to not removing the presumption of parental involvement when parents split up and to email your MP for support on …
A Codependent can get better! This is achieved when they accept that they can only find happiness and success in bringing about change in themselves and not by changing the behaviour of their partner, friend, family member etc. through their help, advice, support and strength (which are a means of control). In order to combat …
In his book “If Love Could Think” Gratch outlines seven patterns of “failed love” relationships that he has observed through treatment of patients. I have included them in this section on Codependency because I personally believe that many of them are reflected in codependent relationships. The first pattern is Narcissistic Love. Narcissists are needy, often self-destructive people …
In America the most widely adopted means of treatment for codependency is attendance of regular meetings at self-help groups such as Co-dependents Anonymous. These groups are organised and run by people who have experienced the particular condition (in this case Codependency). The participants support each other through sharing their experiences and emotionally being there for …
A Dependent doesn’t naturally take responsibility for the consequences of their own behaviour. A Codependent who takes on another persons responsibility doesn’t assist that person to get better by rescuing them, if anything they become more Dependent. This leads to them taking advantage of the Codependent who becomes overburdened, resentful and ultimately angry/vengeful as they …
Beattie stresses that Codependents are reactionaries. They react to other people’s problems, emotions, needs, behaviours etc. and that when these problems, emotions, needs and behaviours become more intense the Codependent reacts more intensely. They become over-involved. “Overinvolvement of any sort can keep us in a state of chaos; it can keep the people around us in …
Beattie has produced a very long list of Characteristics on pg. 42 to 52 of her book. They are categorised in the following groups, Care taking, Low Self-Worth, Repression, Obsession, Controlling, Denial, Dependency, Poor Communication, Weak Boundaries, Lack of Trust, Anger, Sex Problems, Miscellaneous and Progressive. Below is a selection of some of the behaviours and …
