Blog Articles | Brentwood Psychotherapist Dr. Bill Cloke - Part 7
February 11, 2018
Fighting With Your Partner? Here Are Some Tips To Diffuse The Situation
Jack and Harriet were fighting for days when they first came to my office. They walked in separately and sat as far away from each other as they possibly could. What was wrong? Harriet blurted out, “He just won’t listen,…
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April 23, 2018
How Conflict Can Create Love
We fade in on a couple sitting quietly at Sunday morning breakfast. Suddenly, a seemingly innocuous comment swiftly shifts the peaceful mood into prodigious conflict. She: Could you be more careful when you take out the trash? Yesterday you left…
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May 1, 2018
Who Owns up Anymore?
The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else. -George Bernard Shaw Where did this spate of liars and lying begin? Perhaps with the Stone Age but in our…
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July 15, 2018
Why Do Men Cheat?
Biology explains why men stray, but reason and affection hold the keys to happy, monogamous marriages between women and men. It is necessary to the happiness of men that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in…
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September 15, 2018
The Truth About Monogamy
Imagine the scene: a newly married couple floating down the aisle all decked out in wedding attire, gushing with love and happiness as they glide effortlessly toward what appears to be a brilliant future. Her dress is gorgeous, and he…
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January 3, 2019
Transformation vs. Change
“We become what we behold. We shape our tools and then our tools shape us.” Marshall McLuhan Some Fifty years ago, I was walking across my college campus quad after receiving my grades for my first semester there. A straight…
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