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Speaker 1: row every letter. Thank you, nephew. Subject is my husband

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Speaker 1: openly cheating on me? Excuse me? Just Stephen Shirley. I've

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Speaker 1: I started working part time because I wanted to buy

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Speaker 1: at a craft store and there are several restaurants in

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Speaker 1: and he called to say that he'd be in the

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Speaker 1: and alcohol. I never said anything to him. Then our

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Speaker 1: I couldn't go because I had to work. My husband

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Speaker 1: me he was in my area for lunch. I left

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Speaker 1: She was so good that she almost made me believe her.

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Speaker 1: My husband denied doing anything wrong, and now he's very

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Speaker 1: upset with me. I don't have any proof of an affair,

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Speaker 1: your instincts. You have to trust your instincts. Girl, you

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Speaker 1: have a feeling what's going on. You saw the receipts

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Speaker 1: for yourself. First, he lied and told you he would

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Speaker 1: be lunching with a group of people. Then you found

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Speaker 1: He said he was going to the church fundraiser with

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Speaker 1: So when is it his responsibility to take care of her?

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Speaker 1: You're his wife. Now he's monitoring his phone and you know,

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Speaker 1: doing all of that sort of thing, sleeping with it

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Speaker 1: he's turning into all these or suspicious actions by your husband.

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Speaker 1: His behavior has changed. Then you go and catch them

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Speaker 1: at lunch together, and then she gets up in your face,

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Speaker 1: This should never happen. That's your husband. He should have

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Speaker 1: They're doing something, They're lunching together. He's making sure she

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Speaker 1: It's beyond that. At this point, she tried to trick

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Speaker 1: to you is what are you going to do about it? Steve?

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Speaker 1: It's my husband openly cheating on me. I'm gonna read

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Speaker 1: fifteen years. Just a dude now, and I'm an associate pastor.

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Speaker 1: So right there, Steve, I mean I ought to get

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Speaker 1: Now you know how church secretaries looked though, And she

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Speaker 1: Steve's response coming up right after this. You're listening Steve

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Speaker 1: Harvey Morning Show. Come on, Steve, let's recap today's strawberry letter?

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Speaker 1: Is my husband openly cheating on me? So, as I

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Speaker 1: said earlier, I've decided to read this letter as the man.

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Speaker 1: I've been managing this woman fifteen long years, and I'm

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Speaker 1: for that, right, Steve. You know, I worked down at

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Speaker 1: You know what secretary looked like at the church. Well,

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Speaker 1: But I'm going down now, And I told her. I

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Speaker 1: Guess what. She worked at the church. Still, you know

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Speaker 1: what your comment und today Strawberry Letter, thank you Steve

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Speaker 1: at Fine People, indeed Jesus too. Yeah, Steve, we have

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Speaker 1: our girl from the Talk, Cheryl Underwood. Right after this,

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Speaker 1: you're listening to The Dave Harvey Morning Show