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Speaker 1: could be yours. It could be yours. Buckle up and

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Speaker 1: Strawberry Letta, Thank you enough. Subject he doesn't want his

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Speaker 1: ex to hate him. Dear Stephen Shirley, I've been dating

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Speaker 1: a man for almost two years, and I won't move

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Speaker 1: fully over his X. He was in a ten year

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Speaker 1: just looking for reason to leave. He said that he

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Speaker 1: has anger issues and she started smoking cigarettes. We became

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Speaker 1: the best of friends and I helped him work through

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Speaker 1: the breakup with her. Six months after he was officially

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Speaker 1: We are in our mid forties, so I told him

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Speaker 1: I wasn't going to date him unless his intention was

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Speaker 1: to eventually get married. He promised that his goal for

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Speaker 1: us was for us to be husband and wife. But

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Speaker 1: he has a problem. It's his ex girlfriend. She calls

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Speaker 1: him to then about her problems at work, or she'll

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Speaker 1: call him to tell him good news about her son. Basically,

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Speaker 1: any reason is a good reason for her to call him.

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Speaker 1: I have asked him why he takes her calls, and

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Speaker 1: he said it's because he doesn't want her to hate him.

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Speaker 1: He said he still wants to maintain a friendship with

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Speaker 1: her because he was with her for so long. There

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Speaker 1: have been times that she calls and he will go

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Speaker 1: many times that she's still got him wrapped around her finger,

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Speaker 1: but he says it ain't so I have told him

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Speaker 1: sure I don't hate him. I don't think he still

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Speaker 1: wants her because he talks to her in front of

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Speaker 1: me ninety eight percent of the time, But what about

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Speaker 1: that two percent that I don't get to hear should

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Speaker 1: I worry about him backsliding with her? Well, I mean,

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Speaker 1: there's definitely a possibility because they still have that connection.

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Speaker 1: That phone connection seems pretty strong. But you know you're

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Speaker 1: really about the two of them, not the two of you,

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Speaker 1: not you and him. You don't need to move in

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Speaker 1: this point, it would be like a threesome. Because he

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Speaker 1: spends so much time with her, it's more like you

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Speaker 1: him and her in this situation. It doesn't matter whether

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Speaker 1: He shouldn't be taught talking to her at all. At

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Speaker 1: this point. He should have let that go. Like he

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Speaker 1: told her to let those things go, he should do

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Speaker 1: it too. I don't think neither of them have let

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Speaker 1: anything go. The truth is he obviously does still have

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Speaker 1: I think you need to tell him that you've had

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Speaker 1: it with her calling him and him talking to her,

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Speaker 1: and he needs to act like it because he's with

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Speaker 1: you now. I mean, what happened to your plans about

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Speaker 1: of that. You haven't even talked about those things lately,

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Speaker 1: and if she doesn't go, you need to go. Steve, Well, well,

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Speaker 1: I don't. I don't get anything about this letter, to

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Speaker 1: It ain't work out like that. The hate is real,

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Speaker 1: as real as it can get. You know, I'm saying

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Speaker 1: hate tred to be more exact, Hate is not a

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Speaker 1: H repudiate. I'm trying to think a word to despise.

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Speaker 1: Uh yeah, disdained. H hope the worst for you? What

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Speaker 1: praying for your undoing? Upe you die that? Yeah, old hero,

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Speaker 1: you hope you die. A matter of fact, I will

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Speaker 1: attempt several attempts on your life. So this little point

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Speaker 1: as letter, you don't d Yeah? This did it? Like? Wait?

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Speaker 1: Did a little pooty putting letter right here, did ruddy

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Speaker 1: he's fully over his ex. He was in a ten

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Speaker 1: couldn't think of something. This is why I don't understand this.

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Speaker 1: Right here, he said, you know, he was in a

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Speaker 1: I could. He said that he don't love him, would

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Speaker 1: real problem with this letter is he don't want his

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Speaker 1: actually hate him because he's scared of him. I think

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Speaker 1: he's scared this woman with just anger management. He trying

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Speaker 1: his head. That's what I think this whole thing is about.

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Speaker 1: Because I don't give a damn how you feel about me.

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Speaker 1: Miss me with your love I don't give a damn

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Speaker 1: if you ever consider me again. By Felicia, we come

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Speaker 1: back up being there. I'm an expert on this right here. Okay, Steve,

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Speaker 1: one thing this letter is not about you. Feel like

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Speaker 1: It don't work. All right. Well, we'll have part two

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Speaker 1: of Steve's response coming up with twenty three minutes after

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Speaker 1: back into it right after this. You're listening show, all right,

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Speaker 1: Come on, Steve, let's recap today's strawberry letter. H The

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Speaker 1: subject is he doesn't want his ex to hate him? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: don't want his ex to hate him? Man, get in line, homing.

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Speaker 1: It doesn't always work like that. In a ten year relationship,

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Speaker 1: and started smoking cigarettes. So y'all became the best of friends.

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Speaker 1: You help him work through the breakup. And then about

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Speaker 1: that was a girlfriend, so he liked girlfriends. That's what

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Speaker 1: they was in a ten year relationship. They wasn't man,

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Speaker 1: you're not. He liked girlfriends. Yeah, he don't like wives

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Speaker 1: But he has a problem. It's his ex girlfriend. She

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Speaker 1: basically any reason there's a good reason for her to

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Speaker 1: the letter. He don't want her to hate him. The

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Speaker 1: and has anger issues. Ain't nothing worse than a mad

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Speaker 1: ass woman smoking a cigarette. Got that cigarette just dangling

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Speaker 1: When I seen, I swear to God him Keilly sooner

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Speaker 1: I think that cigarette. I tell what I tell what

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Speaker 1: you have? Fred? You have Fred? But I'm here. I

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Speaker 1: What they gotta do it If you want to maintain

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Speaker 1: to leave because he's scared of Huh. He's she crazy.

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Speaker 1: That's why he got to talk her down off the bridge.

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Speaker 1: When he called. He got to go in the kitchen. Baby,

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Speaker 1: stop letting everything bother you. Stop talking about killing people.

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Speaker 1: Stop that you can't kill anybody at the time to

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Speaker 1: Stop listen to me. Now, you shouldn't kill hum so

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Speaker 1: Stop baby, baby, baby, Hold up, baby babies, stop smoking

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Speaker 1: them damn cigarettes. Now, baby baby, we're talking. Phone up, baby, baby, baby,

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Speaker 1: I know, I know, I know, baby. I'm still cool

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Speaker 1: to call my job no more. Don't call down no

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Speaker 1: no mold. Stop saying stuff like that. Baby, I look,

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Speaker 1: I'm still okay. Just don't download nothing else on Facebook

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Speaker 1: love your son. You know it's still I was. I

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Speaker 1: was saying part of his life for ten years. I

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Speaker 1: know he's twenty five. That's okay. He can still call

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Speaker 1: me that. Baby. My promise, you ain't gonna change, baby.

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Speaker 1: Hold on, I'll be off in a minute. Look I'm talking.

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Speaker 1: I was talking to talking to my to my to

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Speaker 1: broke up, baby, I said, give me a minute now, Look,

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Speaker 1: she and that tripping. I just let me talk to

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Speaker 1: all this time. Huh. I know. I know you got

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Speaker 1: Wait a minute, baby, I was talking to her now,

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Speaker 1: but I came here. She talked about she always tripping

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Speaker 1: Don't nobody want to down all the time. Baby, That's

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Speaker 1: what you got to work on that you still ain't

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Speaker 1: trying to get yourself no help. I'm sorry, I'm just

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Speaker 1: Hold on, you want to be you want to be dead? Baby?

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