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Speaker 1: Subject My husband is not a good cheater. Dear Stephen Shirley,

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Speaker 1: My husband and I have been married for almost thirty years.

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Speaker 1: We both have professional jobs and we make a good living.

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Speaker 1: My husband is genuinely a good guy, but he's also

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Speaker 1: a big time cheater. The first time he cheated on me,

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Speaker 1: I was pregnant with our oldest child. I forgave him

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Speaker 1: then because I was young and pregnant, but years later

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Speaker 1: I found out he was still cheating. I let it

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Speaker 1: slide again and things just kind of went back to normal.

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Speaker 1: Over the years, I have confronted him about his inappropriate

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Speaker 1: contact with women, and just last year, we ran into

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Speaker 1: a married woman that he met at the gym, and

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Speaker 1: a week later, the woman popped up at my house

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Speaker 1: to take our youngest child on a playdate with her child.

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Speaker 1: I cursed him out and let him know how stupid

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Speaker 1: he was to have this woman show up at my house.

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Speaker 1: So we finally had counseling, and I thought that we

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Speaker 1: would be fine. He goes on an annual vacation with

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Speaker 1: guys from college, and this year they went to Laguna

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Speaker 1: Beach to golf and hang out. When he got home,

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Speaker 1: he was in a really good mood, so I tried

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Speaker 1: to get some welcome home sex. He pushed me away

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Speaker 1: and said he was drained. He passed out on the

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Speaker 1: found a prepaid phone, and I turned the power on

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Speaker 1: and read all of the text messages between him and

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Speaker 1: his lover, and I saw all of the pictures from

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Speaker 1: their nice weekend together. It looks like for the past

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Speaker 1: three years he has been going on a romantic getaway

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Speaker 1: with her. This is it, guys. I'm ready to call

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Speaker 1: it quits, and he needs to know that I mean

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Speaker 1: business this time. I want to do something mean, but

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Speaker 1: I don't want to be too low down. I don't

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Speaker 1: want him to think he can beg his way out

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Speaker 1: of this one, please advise. Yeah, so let me get

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Speaker 1: this straight. What are you asking us to help you

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Speaker 1: do something mean but not too mean to your husband.

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Speaker 1: We don't want to be a party to that, okay,

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Speaker 1: because guess what, you've been putting up with this for

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Speaker 1: thirty years. He's been cheating on you for thirty years.

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Speaker 1: That's a lifetime. Okay, And I definitely disagree with you.

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Speaker 1: You say your husband's a good guy, he's generally a

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Speaker 1: good guy. This is not a what a genuinely good

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Speaker 1: guy does. He cheated on you when you were pregnant,

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Speaker 1: then he cheated on you after that, and then after that. Okay,

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Speaker 1: Genuinely good guys do not do that. Genuinely good guys

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Speaker 1: don't lie to you about going on trips with their boys.

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Speaker 1: And you know he's been with this woman for three

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Speaker 1: years all of that. So for me, you don't have

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Speaker 1: to do anything low down. I mean, you could do

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Speaker 1: that if you want to just leave him, divorce him.

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Speaker 1: You keep taking him back, so to him, that was,

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Speaker 1: you know, an excuse to keep doing it, or a

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Speaker 1: reason to keep doing it. You know, Hey, he could

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Speaker 1: would always take him back. Well, this time, don't take

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Speaker 1: him back. How about that? Do something different? All right, Steve, Wow,

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Speaker 1: this letter is like, uh, it's really an amazing letter. See,

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Speaker 1: this is how a man gets away with it. Because

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Speaker 1: the first time he cheated while you was pregnant, you

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Speaker 1: And then uh, over the years, you've just confronted him

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Speaker 1: about inappropriate contact with women. And then just this past year,

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Speaker 1: met this lady at the gym and a week later, Uh,

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Speaker 1: take your youngest child on a play dat. Oh well

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Speaker 1: then you cussed at him. That was good. You cussed

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Speaker 1: at him for that one something and let him know

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Speaker 1: custom told him he was stupid. Well, then y'all go

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Speaker 1: to counseling. He gonna go off trip. You want to

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Speaker 1: have some welcome home sex. He passed out, tell you

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Speaker 1: he tied. Well here you ain't tied now, dumbass to

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Speaker 1: then went out there and went through it, found a

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Speaker 1: then after that, he's still in that sleep. Looks like

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Speaker 1: for the past three years he's been going on a

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Speaker 1: to call it quick climb Old. When you found a

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Speaker 1: saw all these pictures of this wonderful weekend, he's still

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Speaker 1: He's still sleep on the count. You know how you

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Speaker 1: gonna show him? This is it, guys. Yep, after thirty

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Speaker 1: some years or what I just described this yell, I

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Speaker 1: want to do something mean, but I don't want to

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Speaker 1: be too mean. But I don't want to even think

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Speaker 1: he can beg his way out of this one. Yes,

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Speaker 1: you do, because what you've done is you've created a

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Speaker 1: conducive atmosphere for cheating to not only survive, but to thrive.

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Speaker 1: Hold that thought, Steve. We'll have part two of a

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Speaker 1: Steve's response coming up at twenty three minutes after the

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Speaker 1: hour's subject of today's Strawberry Letter, my husband is not

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Speaker 1: a good cheater. We'll be back right after this. You're

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Speaker 1: listening show, all right, Come on, Steve, Let's recap today's

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Speaker 1: Strawberry Letters. Subject my husband is not a good cheater.

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Speaker 1: Here's a lady been married to this dude that's not

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Speaker 1: a good cheater. I beg two different because in the

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Speaker 1: letter he proves that he's one of the greatest cheaters

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Speaker 1: of all time. Why because he's been doing it to

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Speaker 1: you for over thirty years and he still got you pregnant.

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Speaker 1: You forgave it. Cheat again, let it slide. Continue to

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Speaker 1: have appropriate, inappropriate contact with women. You don't understand that matter.

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Speaker 1: Lady at a gym next week, the lady at your

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Speaker 1: house popped up to take one of your children on

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Speaker 1: the play date. You got to be kid. All you

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Speaker 1: did was cousin Martin called him stupid. So now he

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Speaker 1: goes on a golf trip. Come in tide pass out.

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Speaker 1: You go out there and looking his overnight bag, find

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Speaker 1: a prepaid phone call with pictures in it, pictures of

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Speaker 1: this woman for this wonderful weekend. Hearing that sleep, you

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Speaker 1: ain't wake him up. You come to the conclusion, look

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Speaker 1: like they've been seeing each other for three years. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: this is it, guys, Yeah, this is it. I want

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Speaker 1: to do something real mean to him, but nothing too low,

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Speaker 1: because I don't want him to think he can beg

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Speaker 1: his way back. Like I told you, man, you've created

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Speaker 1: a conducive atmosphere for cheating to thrive, not only survive,

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Speaker 1: but to thrive. Your husband is an excellent cheating because

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Speaker 1: he's so good at cheating. He does it right in

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Speaker 1: your face. Because you ain't gonna do nothing. If all

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Speaker 1: that's it. He in that sleeping while you going through

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Speaker 1: his bag. Girl. In the words of Thomas Miles, grits

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Speaker 1: should have been on the stove coming to a slow

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Speaker 1: ball you know where how they bubble? Yeah, that should

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Speaker 1: have been a buddy rabbit in a pot bawling at

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Speaker 1: her house. Fair Fawcett would have set your damn whole

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Speaker 1: when you woke up, Your gass would have been hot.

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Speaker 1: Ain't no stabbing? How's his cost still running? How you

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Speaker 1: ain't putting sugar in the tank and slashed all them ties. Show,

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Speaker 1: I don't even understand what we're talking about. You ain't

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Speaker 1: set at one five. You ain't set the gym bag

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Speaker 1: on fire. You ain't broke no falls. He ain't got

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Speaker 1: something to him mean but not too low down? Well,

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Speaker 1: you've called into the wrong show. I take a ball

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Speaker 1: ping hammer while he sleep and just knocked both his

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Speaker 1: you snag a tooth. It ain't a lot of players

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Speaker 1: to be a player, which you too front tago. No,

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Speaker 1: that ain't sexy at all. It's hard to be a player.

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Speaker 1: And you gotta walker see because I'm a bus Both

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Speaker 1: your damn need caps. You. You don't even understand. I

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Speaker 1: want to be lowdown? Ain't he been lowdown? He has

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Speaker 1: not faced any consequences for his actions cussing me out

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Speaker 1: and calling me stupid because your letter, the whole letter,

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Speaker 1: the title of it, My husband is a bad cheater.

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Speaker 1: No he's not. He's actually pretty good at it. My

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Speaker 1: husband is not a good cheater. He's a great cheater

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Speaker 1: because he keeps cheating and keeps being allowed to cheat.

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Speaker 1: If you make a conducive atmosphere for cheating, ma'am, what

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Speaker 1: you don't, if you keep getting in the car doing

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Speaker 1: we ain't got to open it. We won't open it.

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Speaker 1: If we don't go pick up the kids, it's ever

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Speaker 1: you're gonna go, get to kill it. If we don't

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Speaker 1: we won't let you see it. If we don't tell

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Speaker 1: that's all to it. A lot of this is your fault. Now,

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Speaker 1: Is he a good dude? Like Shirley said, absolutely not.

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Speaker 1: But you didn't have to stay with this not good man. See,

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Speaker 1: your definition of everything is wrong. He's not a good cheating,

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Speaker 1: he's a great cheating. He's a really good guy. No

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Speaker 1: he's not. No, he's not. He's not a really good guy.

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Speaker 1: He's just not. He abuses you. He's not a good guy. Damn, damn,

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Speaker 1: He's not all right, Steve. We gotta get out of here.

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Speaker 1: Post your comments on today's Strawberry Letters for him, Nix

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