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Speaker 1: Buggle up and hold on tight. We got a full year.

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Speaker 1: It is a strawberry letta subject. What kind of man

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Speaker 1: does that? Dear Steve Harvey Morning Show. I'm a twenty

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Speaker 1: seven year old mother of two sons, ages five and seven.

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Speaker 1: I have a difficult situation and thought I would ask

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Speaker 1: for your advice. I have been legally married to a

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Speaker 1: man for six long years, but separated for three and

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Speaker 1: a half. We have one son together, and he has

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Speaker 1: been in my oldest child's life since he was a baby.

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Speaker 1: Under the religion that I follow, divorce is not an

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Speaker 1: option for me. We did not have a premier, we

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Speaker 1: did not have premarital sex. So I fell head over

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Speaker 1: heels when he was able to go a year without

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Speaker 1: pressuring me into sleeping with him. Basically, I've felt in

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Speaker 1: my heart that God sent this man to me. Well,

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Speaker 1: my husband chose to leave our church in parentheses, which

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Speaker 1: is his right to do so if he chooses, or

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Speaker 1: if he want, and he left me to move back

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Speaker 1: in with his mother. Well, once he left me, he

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Speaker 1: allowed our house to foreclose, our car to become repossessed,

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Speaker 1: and took what was left in the bank. To make

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Speaker 1: a long story short, not long after he moved in

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Speaker 1: with his mom, he moved a woman and her two

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Speaker 1: kids in his mother's home. He has been with this

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Speaker 1: trick ever since, and they still reside in his mother's

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Speaker 1: home till this day, although his mother moved out. Now,

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Speaker 1: he and I are still legally married, and I can't

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Speaker 1: understand why he won't divorce me already. I have not

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Speaker 1: moved on, and I'm not dating anyone because, like I

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Speaker 1: said earlier, my beliefs prohibit me from divorce. But please

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Speaker 1: tell me what kind of man takes care of another

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Speaker 1: woman and her kids but won't divorce the one he's

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Speaker 1: still legally bound to. Also, what do I do when

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Speaker 1: he brings her with him to my place to pick

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Speaker 1: up the kids? Please help? I'm so tired of being

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Speaker 1: sick and tired. Yeah, my cinema sick, actually, Steve, you know,

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Speaker 1: I mean, you know, I don't know what kind of

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Speaker 1: religion this is. You know, I don't presume to think

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Speaker 1: it's any kind. I don't know what this is you're

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Speaker 1: involved in. I I really don't. I don't understand uh,

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Speaker 1: a religion or anything that would, um, you know, require

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Speaker 1: you to stay married and not divorce a man that

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Speaker 1: treats you like this. I don't get it. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I thought religion was supposed to be a barometer and

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Speaker 1: a guideline for your life. You know, not to dictate, um,

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Speaker 1: and you know, and you really only have to answer

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Speaker 1: to God here. I'll just leave it at that. Um,

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Speaker 1: you've been separated from your husband for three and a

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Speaker 1: half years. I mean he's not been your husband ever

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Speaker 1: since he left you moved with another woman. Uh, in

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Speaker 1: his mother's house. Uh, this is not your husband. You're

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Speaker 1: gonna continually be in bondage unless you take charge of

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Speaker 1: your life. I mean, you know, I would suggest maybe

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Speaker 1: you going to the people that are the head of

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Speaker 1: your religion and perhaps talking to the minister of the

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Speaker 1: past whatever. I mean, this is a tough situation here,

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Speaker 1: you know. UM, I just don't understand what kind of

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Speaker 1: religion this is that would um you know, have you

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Speaker 1: stuck in something like this? You're right, you can't move

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Speaker 1: forward unless you deal with this situation. And the only

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Speaker 1: way right now to deal with it is to divorce

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Speaker 1: this man. You're waiting for him to do it. He's

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Speaker 1: not gonna do it, obviously. He's okay with how things are.

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Speaker 1: You're gonna have to do it yourself and take charge

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Speaker 1: of your own life and be accountable and withholding to God,

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Speaker 1: to holding to God. Uh, Steve, this is crazy crazy.

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Speaker 1: We got your response coming up. I don't know what

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Speaker 1: to tell her. All right, Steve, come on with part

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Speaker 1: two of your response to today's Strawberry letter. What kind

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Speaker 1: of man does this? Hm? I don't really to start

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Speaker 1: in your letter because every line is field with ridiculous.

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Speaker 1: So let me just try it this way. Let's just

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Speaker 1: start with the U so sick and tired of being

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Speaker 1: sick and tired? And my opening remarks this morning, I said,

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Speaker 1: what makes a person sick and tired of being sick

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Speaker 1: and tired is when their life is in a rut

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Speaker 1: and it's indulgence in its whole home and it's going nowhere.

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Speaker 1: What usually puts a person's life into the sick and

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Speaker 1: tide of being sick and tired position, it's because they

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Speaker 1: don't have a road map. They don't have a plan,

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Speaker 1: they don't have any dreams of visions. When you don't

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Speaker 1: have dreams of visions and you don't have a road map,

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Speaker 1: you don't have a map to where you're going in life.

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Speaker 1: This woman is going nowhere. Her whole life was tied

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Speaker 1: to this man. Now she's in a religion that does

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Speaker 1: not under the religion that I followed, divorce is not

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Speaker 1: an option for me. Okay, see here's here's a crazy part.

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Speaker 1: Let me tell you something, lady, before I give you

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Speaker 1: this answer. You need to get out of your religion

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Speaker 1: with God and get into a relationship with God. That's

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Speaker 1: a deeper understanding than a bunch of rules set up

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Speaker 1: by men. Get into your relationship with God instead of you. See,

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Speaker 1: you're married to your religion, but what about your relationship

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Speaker 1: with God? So let's talk about this. So I don't

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Speaker 1: know your religion, so I'm not blasting at anything like that,

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Speaker 1: but you need to check your relationship with God, because

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Speaker 1: I gotta ask you a couple of questions. You believe

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Speaker 1: that God sent his man to you. That's what you

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Speaker 1: believe because basically, he didn't pressure you in the sleeper

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Speaker 1: with him for a year and you felt in your

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Speaker 1: heart to God sent you this man. Well, your husband

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Speaker 1: chose to leave your church, which is his right to

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Speaker 1: do if he wants, and he left me to move

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Speaker 1: back in with his mama. M hm. He allowed your

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Speaker 1: house to get foreclosed, your car to be repossessed, and

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Speaker 1: took what was left in the bank. Then he moved

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Speaker 1: a woman into his mama house with two kids, into

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Speaker 1: his mother's home. Mama ain't saying nothing about this. This

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Speaker 1: was cool with Mama. First of all, your man was

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Speaker 1: not a man in the beginning. I don't know what

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Speaker 1: your criteria for manhood is. But you're dating a boy.

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Speaker 1: You were married to a boy, Your boy. Now we

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Speaker 1: always remember this. Somebody just told it to me. Right boys,

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Speaker 1: shock men build homes your boy just like the shock

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Speaker 1: when y'all was at home. It wasn't even no good

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Speaker 1: you've been You've been married to a boy for a

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Speaker 1: long time. Now this boy right here to move this

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Speaker 1: woman in with the two kids. You want to know

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Speaker 1: in the letter, what kind of man takes care of

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Speaker 1: another woman and her kids but won't divorce the one

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Speaker 1: he's still legally bound to see. You make a lot

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Speaker 1: of misstatements in this letter. You mean, what type of

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Speaker 1: man takes care of another woman's kids but won't take

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Speaker 1: care of his kids. You keep harping on this divorce

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Speaker 1: that your religions say you can't do, and then you

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Speaker 1: say in the letter you said, uh uh, I have

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Speaker 1: not moved on and I'm not dating anymore. But because

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Speaker 1: like I said, my beliefs prevent me from prohibit me

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Speaker 1: from divorce. Okay, let's let's talk about your beliefs. Do

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Speaker 1: you believe it's okay to be treated this way? We're

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Speaker 1: talking about your beliefs in your religion, because I don't

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Speaker 1: know what religion makes it okay for you to be

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Speaker 1: treated this way? Okay? Do you believe it's now your

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Speaker 1: duty to be stuck in a situation like this? Do

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Speaker 1: you believe that because we're talking about your beliefs. Your

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Speaker 1: beliefs are your religion. So now once again, you need

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Speaker 1: to get out of your religion with God and get

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Speaker 1: into your relationship with God because your religion is contradicting

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Speaker 1: the morality of life itself. Okay, we have to go