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Speaker 1: Thank you nephew. Subject is she my queen or a narcissist?

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Speaker 1: Dear Stephen Shirley, I need your advice. I've been dealing

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Speaker 1: with this woman for ten years. I am forty eight

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Speaker 1: years old and she's forty five. When I first met her,

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Speaker 1: I fell in love quickly, and I thought she loved me.

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Speaker 1: She said all the right things, like she wants to

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Speaker 1: spend the rest of her life with me, and buy

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Speaker 1: a house with me and so on. And we've always

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Speaker 1: talked about marriage, but as time went on she changed.

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Speaker 1: Now we don't discuss marriage anymore, but we did by

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Speaker 1: a house. Things went crazy after that, and I don't

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Speaker 1: know if I'm living with my queen or a narcissist.

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Speaker 1: She criticizes everything I do, and she blames me for

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Speaker 1: everything that goes wrong in the house. She yells at

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Speaker 1: me all the time, even in front of company. She

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Speaker 1: doesn't like to be questioned about anything. She doesn't take

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Speaker 1: accountability for her faults, and more importantly, she never gives

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Speaker 1: me props on sex anymore. She tries to control everything,

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Speaker 1: and I'm trying to remain respectful no matter how she

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Speaker 1: the peace. I have started packing my belonging so I

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Speaker 1: can leave. I'm not married to this woman, but I

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Speaker 1: loved us together and hoping and praying that we can

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Speaker 1: work things out. I asked her to go to counseling,

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Speaker 1: and she said that wasn't a very manly thing to

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Speaker 1: ask a woman. My purpose in life was to meet

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Speaker 1: this woman's every need, But now I want to swing

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Speaker 1: on her, and that's not a comfortable place for me

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Speaker 1: to be in. In a last ditch effort to please her,

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Speaker 1: I got a chef and am masseuse for Valentine's Day,

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Speaker 1: and she said the food was salty and the girl

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Speaker 1: didn't massage her deeply enough. Should I tell her I

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Speaker 1: want out? Or should I go without saying a word.

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Speaker 1: I'm so torn and it's a life changing move, so

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Speaker 1: I need your advice on what to do. I mean,

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Speaker 1: you've been with this woman for ten years, and for

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Speaker 1: you it's getting worse. You know those bags you mentioned

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Speaker 1: that you started packing. I say, finished packing those bags,

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Speaker 1: so you can leave and this is over pretty much.

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Speaker 1: I mean, she doesn't want to get married, she doesn't

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Speaker 1: talk about it anymore, she doesn't want to go to counseling.

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Speaker 1: She yelled at you all the time. She has no accountability,

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Speaker 1: you say, and she doesn't give you props on your

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Speaker 1: sex anymore. So why after ten years are you still

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Speaker 1: with her taking this abuse? If you're so unhappy and

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Speaker 1: it's not working and nothing's worth Listen, if it's the

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Speaker 1: house you guys have together, you can sell that and

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Speaker 1: split the money. This woman is giving you absolutely no

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Speaker 1: reason to stay with her. You're not married, so that

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Speaker 1: should be fairly easy to walk away if that's what

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Speaker 1: you want to do. Because you're miserable so much so

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Speaker 1: that you've thought about swinging on her, meaning hitting her.

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Speaker 1: You know that's not cool. So right now, I think

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Speaker 1: the best thing you can do is about gracefully before

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Speaker 1: things get any worse. Ten years, you know that's enough. Furthermore,

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Speaker 1: she's not even pretending she's happy with you, so just

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Speaker 1: be out, be out, Steve. You know Shirley's correct. This

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Speaker 1: whole thing is doomed. But I'm gonna show you something, sir.

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Speaker 1: I just want you to help me, help you you

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Speaker 1: forty eight forty five? Is she my queen or narcissist?

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Speaker 1: When I first met her, I fell in love quickly,

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Speaker 1: and you thought she loved you. Now listen to this.

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Speaker 1: She said all the right things, like she wants to

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Speaker 1: about marriage, but as time went on she changed. Well,

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Speaker 1: let's talk about the change. I think she did exactly

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Speaker 1: Y'all been together ten years. She ain't talked about leaving.

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Speaker 1: Y'all talked about buying a house together. Bam, y'all did it.

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Speaker 1: So she's still there, and she bought the house. We've

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Speaker 1: always talked about marriage, but it's time went on. She changed, well,

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Speaker 1: seemed to me, lucky for you, according to this letter

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Speaker 1: she changed. Now I'm gonna be thinking, man, this is

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Speaker 1: Now we don't talk about marriage anymore. But we did

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Speaker 1: buy a house. That's what y'all said. Joe was on

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Speaker 1: the Things went crazy after that, and and now I

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Speaker 1: don't know if I'm living with my queen or narcissist.

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Speaker 1: She criticizes everything I do, and she blames me for

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Speaker 1: everything to go wrong in the house. You can't write

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Speaker 1: me for the make me stay in response because I'm

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Speaker 1: first one to get out ten years time. Do let's

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Speaker 1: get up? Did you whistle? Yep? That's my range. That's

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Speaker 1: cut off for me. Not and don't need to do

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Speaker 1: So we go. She yells at me all the time,

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Speaker 1: even in front of company. See, I'm I'm I can't

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Speaker 1: take that. I can't do that though. She doesn't like

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Speaker 1: for her faults. And more importantly, she never gives me

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Speaker 1: props on sex anymore. Now, I didn't understand that line.

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Speaker 1: You mean she don't give you props? Well, maybe it

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Speaker 1: ain't good no more. And it might not be good

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Speaker 1: because you don't like who you having to do it too.

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Speaker 1: The reason she don't give you props to the more

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Speaker 1: because of feeling. Ain't to say, because you probably don't

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Speaker 1: feel the same about it. Dog, she bossing you around?

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Speaker 1: How to let your cussin at you in front of people?

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Speaker 1: Hold on? Hold on, Steve, what you want tonight to

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Speaker 1: be about? She wants to swing on her too? All right? Plus,

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Speaker 1: I want to knock you out. Now, I'll give it

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Speaker 1: we'll be back with part two of Steve's response to

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Speaker 1: twenty three minutes after the hour, today's Strawberry letter subject

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Speaker 1: is she my queen or a narcissist? We'll get back

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Speaker 1: into it right after this. You're listening Steve Harvey Morning Show.

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Speaker 1: All right, Come on, Steve, let's recap today's Strawberry letters

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Speaker 1: subject is she my queen or a narcissist? Well, this

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Speaker 1: letter right here, like Shirley said, this marriage is doomed.

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Speaker 1: That's not even a marriage though, this relationship is doomed.

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Speaker 1: She's forty eight, she's forty five metris woman. They talked

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Speaker 1: about spending the rest of their life together, buying a

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Speaker 1: It's been ten years. They bought the house together. But

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Speaker 1: she's changed. She's not talking about the marriage anymore. And

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Speaker 1: it seems to be a blessing for you, sir, Okay

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Speaker 1: thinks she criticizes everything you do. She blames you for

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Speaker 1: everything that goes wrong in the house. She yells at

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Speaker 1: me every time, all the time, even in front of company.

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Speaker 1: I'm not fitting to take that, and no woman should either.

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Speaker 1: She doesn't like to be questioned about anything, and she

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Speaker 1: never gives me props on sex anymore. I was confused

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Speaker 1: about that before the break. She don't give you credit,

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Speaker 1: she don't thank you, she don't give you ups, she

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Speaker 1: don't praise your efforts no more. And because it's not

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Speaker 1: later on in the letter, you think about swinging on it.

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Speaker 1: It's harder had good sex after that, really, it really is.

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Speaker 1: So I don't think you should get that anymore. She

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Speaker 1: tries to control everything, and I'm trying to remain respectful

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Speaker 1: no matter how she treats me. Here's a good one

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Speaker 1: right here. I find myself always apologizing just to keep

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Speaker 1: the peace. That ain't gonna change, dog you. We'll gonna

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Speaker 1: get used to that one right there. That's because that's

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Speaker 1: how you have a happy hands marriage. You apologize for

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Speaker 1: stuff just to keep the peace. You are apologize for

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Speaker 1: stuff just to keep the peace. Every man that's marriage

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Speaker 1: that's listening to this show knows what that line means.

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Speaker 1: It comes with it. All you want is peace. So

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Speaker 1: that we're right there. You can take that off the

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Speaker 1: list of stuff to complain about, because that's going on forever.

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Speaker 1: I've started packing my belonging so I can leave. And

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Speaker 1: Hold on, bro, I started packing my belonging so I

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Speaker 1: work things out now. Praying and packing. That's a tough combination, y'all.

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Speaker 1: You praying that y'all stay together, but you steady packing.

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Speaker 1: Praying and packing ain't a good compensation. I don't really

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Speaker 1: believe you praying, dog, I really don't, because you're packing.

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Speaker 1: You see what I'm saying. You Come on, Nah, you can't.

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Speaker 1: That ain't work. Okay, let's just move on. Just wanted

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Speaker 1: to I want to sink into you. Uh uh. And

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Speaker 1: I mean, dog, she just doing you every chance she gets.

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Speaker 1: Bro This is, dude, My purpose in life was to

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Speaker 1: I just want y'all to know that, oh yeah, y'all's mouth.

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Speaker 1: Y'all talk to damn much and then you talk because

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Speaker 1: to know that's a normal thought in a man's mind.

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Speaker 1: I'm thinking with the fingers, yea all that because see,

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Speaker 1: we gotta wait. We could shut that down now. It's

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Speaker 1: sad thing is some men act on that regrettably and

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Speaker 1: That's a coward ass way to go women. That's not

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Speaker 1: the way to do. But I've told my door us

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Speaker 1: cass ain't rained like your daddy. My mama's always tell

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Speaker 1: want it to say, brother, that feeling wanted to put

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Speaker 1: you swing on her. That's a comment. And it happens

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Speaker 1: in all of our man surely, and callers included whatever

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Speaker 1: massage her deeply enough. Oh now it's the Masseus's fault

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