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Speaker 1: It is time to ask the CLO our chief love Officer,

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Speaker 1: Steve Harvey. All right, this is from Annette in Knoxville,

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Speaker 1: and that says, I keep my great grandson during the week,

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Speaker 1: and I was giving strict rules from his mother who

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Speaker 1: reads a lot. Who reads a lot on raising children.

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Speaker 1: I raised seven kids, So I was offended, and I

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Speaker 1: did what I wanted to do. When he got home,

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Speaker 1: he asked if he could watch cartoons. Now she's mad

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Speaker 1: at me. What's wrong with the cartoons?

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Speaker 2: Ain't well, cartoons ain't what they used to be, But

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Speaker 2: I you know, watch it. If you didn't do your

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Speaker 2: homeworking you home, you will watch cartoon. Yeah, cartoons ain't

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Speaker 2: what they used to be, though, I ain't got no good.

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Speaker 2: Daffie Duck first black on television with a speaking role,

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Speaker 2: and boy, boy, you don't understaying. That's why my fiction

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Speaker 2: for Daffy Duck run deep, first black on tip you

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Speaker 2: could shoot him and he dunk Bill go around and

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Speaker 2: face and come right back me talking some more trash

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Speaker 2: he was, don't boy all right?

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Speaker 3: See.

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Speaker 1: Moving on to Hope in Minneapolis. Hope writes, my husband's

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Speaker 1: sister is staying with us, and she met a man

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Speaker 1: at work. I used to date that man, and my

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Speaker 1: husband told her that that guy is off limits. I

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Speaker 1: found out, and I told her, I don't care. Why

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Speaker 1: did my husband speak for me and not even tell me?

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Speaker 2: Well, he ain't speaking for you. He tells his sister

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Speaker 2: that man off limits.

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Speaker 3: You know you ain't.

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Speaker 2: He can't come around us, you know now his sister's

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Speaker 2: staying with them.

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Speaker 3: Then met a man at work and you used to

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Speaker 3: date the man.

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Speaker 2: No, that's messy, you, that's a can of worms. And

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Speaker 2: the dude ain't speaking for you. He's speaking for himself.

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Speaker 2: He told his sister he off limits. He ain't coming

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Speaker 2: over here. Don't don't be talking to him, you know. No,

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Speaker 2: it has nothing to do with the Why didn't he

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Speaker 2: check speak for me? He ain't speaking for you, he's

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Speaker 2: speaking for himself. He ain't welcome, did you say himself?

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Speaker 1: Yeah?

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Speaker 3: He did. Let it good news. I'm so happy.

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Speaker 1: That makes me so happy.

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Speaker 3: I don't even realize that thank you, though I know

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Speaker 3: I noticed. I was having a little uncomfortable moment. I

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Speaker 3: don't know what that was fun. It was beautiful.

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Speaker 1: It was a beautiful moment for all of us, see,

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Speaker 1: for all of us moving on to James in Tampa.

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Speaker 1: James writes, I get I got reacquainted with a woman

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Speaker 1: from my past, and she's successful now and got it

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Speaker 1: going on. I have been in the same job for

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Speaker 1: twenty two years and I'm about to retire. We have

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Speaker 1: different lifestyles. Should we talk about finances early on? Can

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Speaker 1: this work?

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Speaker 3: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: Get it out the way right, Not James, because yep, yeah,

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Speaker 2: you right there where you was when y'all knew each

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Speaker 2: other before.

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Speaker 3: She got it going on.

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Speaker 2: She's successful, Yeah, and y'all live two different lifestyle. She traveling,

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Speaker 2: You go up to the corner to the tavern. She

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Speaker 2: liked going out there. She liked going out the restaurants.

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Speaker 2: You got a pad of you got a pot of

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Speaker 2: pintos on stove and a Sheeta corn bread.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. Probably need to discuss this.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's what he's acting, right. Can can they blend

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Speaker 1: all this together? Can opposites attract here?

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Speaker 3: No? Not like that. She like, uh, she liked designer bags.

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Speaker 2: You you you down there at the fleet market swapping

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Speaker 2: me getting one to look like you brought you'd have

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Speaker 2: brought a protar bag in the house and it's actually

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Speaker 2: supposed to.

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Speaker 3: Be product rod or prid day. You just came in

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Speaker 3: with a PROD day bag. Yeah whatever, get out? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: Is it gonna work? Is you don't think so well?

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Speaker 2: I mean, you know he's got he's got some concerns,

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Speaker 2: and the concerns is real. And the two different lifestyles,

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Speaker 2: what he's saying is they making two different moneys. And

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Speaker 2: you need to have this discussion what her expectations are

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Speaker 2: with her life and her future and if.

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Speaker 3: She could see herself with the future with you, because bro,

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Speaker 3: listen to me.

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Speaker 2: You can't ask a woman to follow you and you

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Speaker 2: ain't going nowhere.

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Speaker 3: He loo, I'm just don't be real with you.

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Speaker 2: You can't ask a woman to follow you and you

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Speaker 2: ain't going nowhere. What you wanted to hook hook ome

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Speaker 2: wagging up to you for?

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Speaker 3: Yeah?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, got it all right?

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Speaker 3: So that's real talk.

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Speaker 2: And you know for all the cats out there that

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Speaker 2: I ain't taking care of no woman knowing how Okay,

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Speaker 2: then you're missing the point of it. Because a woman

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Speaker 2: can make you, a family, can produce another human life.

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Speaker 2: That's a lot to bring to the table. The least

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Speaker 2: you can do is provide for it. That's the least,

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Speaker 2: and that's your job as men. And we gotta we

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Speaker 2: got I know we've stopped teaching that, but that's our

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Speaker 2: job as men.

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Speaker 1: They don't talk about that.

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Speaker 2: Our job as men is to be a provider. And

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Speaker 2: you know, with you all this new stuff, I want

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Speaker 2: a partner. Well that ain't hot his work, man, You

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Speaker 2: get a partner. But you got to understand what a

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Speaker 2: real wife is. That's what God took through too, made

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Speaker 2: Eve from the rib of the man, not from his

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Speaker 2: head because she ain't supposed to be over, but not

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Speaker 2: from his feet because he ain't.

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Speaker 3: Supposed to be over her, walk on her.

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Speaker 2: The rib is designed to protect your organs, all your

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Speaker 2: vital organs. Your wife sees stuff you don't see, y'all.

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Speaker 2: She covered you in ways you can't be covered. That's

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Speaker 2: what she for. That's why you got to provide and

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Speaker 2: protect her.

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Speaker 3: That's just you know, all right? All right?

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Speaker 1: Moving on a one? Yeah, last one? Yeah? Charlene in Dallas.

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Speaker 1: Charlene writes, my husband recently started calling me bee and

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Speaker 1: I hate it. I hate it. It's a common name

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Speaker 1: that can apply to everyone. It makes me think he

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Speaker 1: is another woman and doesn't want to get our names

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Speaker 1: mixed up. Why is he calling me beae all of

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Speaker 1: a sudden, You know.

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Speaker 3: It ain't that deep. It ain't that deep, lady. It's

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Speaker 3: just not that deep.

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Speaker 2: It ain't because he got somebody else and he don't

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Speaker 2: want to call y'all the same name. If you don't

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Speaker 2: want him to call you babe, just tell him you

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Speaker 2: don't like it. Hey, listen, don't don't don't call me

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Speaker 2: that because I don't like it.

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Speaker 1: Now that should be the end of it.

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Speaker 2: You think you can pick another pet name for me,

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Speaker 2: or you can call me the name you been calling me,

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Speaker 2: but you can start calling me babe and I just

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Speaker 2: don't like.

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Speaker 1: What are what are some names he could call her

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Speaker 1: like instead of bae?

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Speaker 3: Like what Cynthia? Just random?

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Speaker 1: Her name is Charlene.

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Speaker 3: Well, well, Bay is better than Cynthia?

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Speaker 1: Is?

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Speaker 3: What else?

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Speaker 1: Tell me boo boo? Maybe I don't do you don't do?

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Speaker 1: You say baby though? Right?

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Speaker 3: Yeah? That's what babye? Baby like a s stod. I

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Speaker 3: can't find it? Baby? Did she know I'm looking for?

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Speaker 1: Maybe he should stay instead of babe, babe? You're listening

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