Blog Articles | Brentwood Psychotherapist Dr. Bill Cloke - Part 3
August 7, 2015
The Truth about Porn and Relationships
How to recognize and treat porn addiction before it destroys your relationship. Janet and Ben came in for couple’s therapy because she had caught him watching internet porn. He was looking at “Cheerleaders Gone Wild”: videos featuring girls who are…
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August 16, 2015
The #1 Thing Couples Fight About
I opened my Facebook page the other day and a scrolled down to find a video from the Anderson Cooper show, Anderson, featuring the renowned couples therapist Dr. John Gottman, who wrote the best seller The Seven Principles for Making…
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September 2, 2015
Just How Important Is Sex, Really?
I don’t have to tell you that sex is everywhere: in films, on television and in any other venue advertisers can lay their hands on. The blaring message: sex is not only important but absolutely necessary and if you aren’t…
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October 14, 2015
How to Love Dangerously
"Only love, only long empathy and identification and compassion can root another person in their heart so deeply there's no escaping your hatred of her, not ever; especially not when the thing you hate most about her is your capacity…
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December 2, 2015
Can We Choose Our Lives or Are We Dyed in The Wool?
My friend Brett shot me an email and suggested lunch. Of course I jumped at the chance as we've been friends for several years and we always have a great time joking and talking about everything under sun. We frequently…
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January 8, 2016
10 ‘IFs’ for a Happy, Loving Relationship
If you can hold in mind your love for each other and keep that before you at times of great difficulty and in all situations… If you can make being right less important than being connected, and instead work toward…
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