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Speaker 1: It is time. It is time for today's Strawberry Letter,

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Speaker 1: and if you need advice on relationships, on dating, work, sex, parenting,

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Speaker 1: hold on tight. We got it for you. Here. It

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Speaker 1: is the Strawberry Letter subject. I need it, and I

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Speaker 1: need it now. Dear Stephen Shirley. I've been with my

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Speaker 1: the past year. We have a really good relationship, but

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Speaker 1: there's one problem. He will not have any kind of

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Speaker 1: sexual relationships with me sexual relations with me, and this

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Speaker 1: has been going on since we started living together. He

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Speaker 1: says he wants to wait until we are married, but

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Speaker 1: he has not even proposed. We're not at that point

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Speaker 1: in our relationship yet. He told me that when God

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Speaker 1: puts it in his heart, he will ask me to

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Speaker 1: marry him. When we first started dating, we had sex

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Speaker 1: all of the time. I am fifty six years old

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Speaker 1: and he is sixty years old, and I think it's

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Speaker 1: a little late in life for him to be practicing celibacy.

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Speaker 1: We sleep in the same bed every night and he

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Speaker 1: to intimacy. He sometimes sleeps in the guest room if

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Speaker 1: he thinks I'm trying to get frisky with him. He

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Speaker 1: wants he wants us to go to a Christian counselor

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Speaker 1: so I can see things from his point of view.

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Speaker 1: I do believe in waiting for sex before marriage, but

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Speaker 1: at our age, I have a stressful job and some

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Speaker 1: give it, he does not give me a wedding date soon,

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Speaker 1: I don't know if I can stay in this sexless relationship.

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Speaker 1: I am ready to move out and move on with

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Speaker 1: my life. What do you think I should do? Please

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Speaker 1: help now. It's really hard to stop with the sex.

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Speaker 1: It's hard once you started, okay, but your man has

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Speaker 1: managed to do it for some reason, and for a

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Speaker 1: be a good Christian and it doesn't matter to him

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Speaker 1: your ages. He says he's waiting for God to put

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Speaker 1: it in his heart to propose to you. And here's

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Speaker 1: a crazy part. You agree with him on a certain level.

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Speaker 1: You say you believe in waiting for sex before marriage. Again,

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Speaker 1: you agree with him on that point. But it's not

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Speaker 1: because of God that you believe him or you agree

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Speaker 1: him agree with him. It's because of your ages. You're

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Speaker 1: fifty sixty's sixty, and I just say to you, you

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Speaker 1: cannot have it both ways. You can't. Either you're with

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Speaker 1: you're gonna move on, move out of this relationship and

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Speaker 1: move on with your life. You got to make a

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Speaker 1: decision here. If you want the cuddle and if you

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Speaker 1: want to relieve your stress, if you've had a particularly

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Speaker 1: stressful day and you want to have sex with him, well,

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Speaker 1: this is not your guy because he doesn't want to.

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Speaker 1: He's waiting. Okay, he's cut you off. I mean, he

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Speaker 1: did offer you a sort of an olive branch, and

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Speaker 1: that's inviting you to go to a Christian conflint with

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Speaker 1: if you don't see his point of view, if you're

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Speaker 1: not feeling what he's talking about, you have to move on.

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Speaker 1: This is not your man, Steve. This letter is nothing

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Speaker 1: but a letter feel with contradictions. I could never get

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Speaker 1: talking about. She's been with a man for two years.

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Speaker 1: They've lived together for the past year. We had a

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Speaker 1: they've been dating for two years. They lived together for

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Speaker 1: one year. After they move in, he stopped having sex

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Speaker 1: It's so much that this block of information right here,

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Speaker 1: better on all levels. She fifty six, he's sixty, Like,

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Speaker 1: this is some new stuff. You ain't never heard of this.

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Speaker 1: You've been together for two years, it had sex for

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Speaker 1: it in his hard to hear you move in. That

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Speaker 1: from a sexless marriage, sexless relationship till we had sex

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Speaker 1: practicing celibacy. Okay, let me mark that because we're gonna

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Speaker 1: come back to that. We sleep in the same bed

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Speaker 1: every night, and he won't even cuddle with me because

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Speaker 1: Christian counseling so I can see things from his point

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Speaker 1: of you Christian counselor y'all live together? You want sex?

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Speaker 1: He don't y'all and had sex all the time for

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Speaker 1: a whole year. He said, wait till he proposed to you.

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Speaker 1: You don't think y'all marriage at that stage yet, man,

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Speaker 1: just say, y'all relationship, ain't that point yet? I don't

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Speaker 1: ready to move. I move on with my life. What

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Speaker 1: this damn now. I'm thinking the rest of it that

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Speaker 1: when I come back. That's right. We'll have part two

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Speaker 1: of Steve's response coming up at twenty three after subjects

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Speaker 1: I need it and I need it now right after this.

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Speaker 1: You're listening, all right, Steve, Let's recap today's strawberry letter

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Speaker 1: and none to recaptain these is two old fools, just

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Speaker 1: two old fools that they got together and is acting foolish.

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Speaker 1: It's a letter of none. Be complex, Flix. She've been

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Speaker 1: For the past year, you had no sex, sexist marriage

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Speaker 1: she say, but we ain't at that point in our

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Speaker 1: Now she says, she fifty six and he's sixty. Then

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Speaker 1: she said, this is a good when y'all. And I

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Speaker 1: She said this right here. He wants us to go

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Speaker 1: to Christian counseling so I can see things from his point.

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Speaker 1: I do believe in waiting for sex before marriage. What, lady, lady,

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Speaker 1: you just said. I think it's a little lady in

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Speaker 1: life for him to be practicing celibacy. Then you turn

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Speaker 1: got ages on it? Now how that works. I don't

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Speaker 1: and you stab somebody that ought to be cool, I

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Speaker 1: don't know if I can stay in this sexless relationship.

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Speaker 1: I'm ready to move out and move on with my life. Lady,

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Speaker 1: hearty is fine? Age that love at that age, somebody

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Speaker 1: ought to do. I don't even care because you're confused.

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Speaker 1: You do believe in waiting on sex for marriage. You

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Speaker 1: think he crazy for being celibate at this age. You

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Speaker 1: he said he don't want to marry you till he

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Speaker 1: get married, but he ain't proposed to you. But then

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Speaker 1: you said, our relationship is not at that point yet.

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Speaker 1: But then you said, I don't know if I could

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Speaker 1: he if he don't ask me to marry him soon,

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Speaker 1: if I don't get a wedding date soon, Really, man,

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Speaker 1: y'all need to break up. That's what your heart needed

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Speaker 1: to do. And stop typing, set your computer down, get off,

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Speaker 1: don't call it Steve Harvey down. Stop this latter made

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Speaker 1: all out here, everybody listening to it. I think, going,

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Speaker 1: what is she talking about? Huh? Can he still perform?

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Speaker 1: you know, could have lost it? She crazy? Never know.

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Speaker 1: She's really going through. She needed to quit her job. Wow,

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Speaker 1: it's yourself. It's crazy. I'm crazy crazy, it really is.

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Speaker 1: She wants what he's not giving her, so to move on.

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Speaker 1: Could it be somebody else for him? It could be,

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Speaker 1: but he didn't want her to move sound like, yeah,

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Speaker 1: she'd have moved in. He's laying up there, going right, man,

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Speaker 1: you that you don't left out that bad room? He

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Speaker 1: she do in here? I'm all on her. Well, I'm

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Speaker 1: just telling you it could be on him too. What

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Speaker 1: on somebody's house and open up the medicine cabinet? Oh? Yeah, yeah, real?

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Speaker 1: What do you have? I'm sitting I'm reading stuff. I said, okay,

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Speaker 1: this is because I ain't got none of this. Let

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Speaker 1: me not shake nobody's hands. That's serious medicine right there.

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Speaker 1: But see if he won't even cuddle with her because

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Speaker 1: he says that leads to intimacy. He don't like her normal,

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Speaker 1: that's what he don't like her, and he cut the

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Speaker 1: sex out. He thinks she'll leave. Yeah, well she needs

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Speaker 1: she needs to leave. Where she going, well, maybe to

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Speaker 1: someone who would want to you know, she could be

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Speaker 1: she craze. I'm not letting you blame this all on.

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Speaker 1: Sure you read this letter. I did. You won't blame

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Speaker 1: All right, guys, we got to get out of here.

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