1
00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:02,800
Speaker 1: All right, guys, it's time now for today's Strawberry Letter

2
00:00:02,800 --> 00:00:07,760
Speaker 1: and listen. If you need advice on relationship, sex, dating, work, parenting,

3
00:00:07,880 --> 00:00:11,320
Speaker 1: and more, please submit your Strawberry letter to Steve BARBFM

4
00:00:11,360 --> 00:00:13,400
Speaker 1: dot com and click submit Strawberry Letter.

5
00:00:13,880 --> 00:00:15,280
Speaker 2: We could be reading your.

6
00:00:15,240 --> 00:00:17,439
Speaker 1: Letter live on the air, just like we're going to

7
00:00:17,520 --> 00:00:19,200
Speaker 1: read this one right here, right now.

8
00:00:19,960 --> 00:00:21,959
Speaker 3: Buckle up and hold on tight. We got it for

9
00:00:22,079 --> 00:00:23,959
Speaker 3: you here. It is a Strawberry Letter.

10
00:00:24,640 --> 00:00:27,720
Speaker 1: Thank you, nephew. Subject my mom and my baby daddy.

11
00:00:28,000 --> 00:00:30,640
Speaker 1: Dear Stephen Shirley. I have known my baby daddy since

12
00:00:30,680 --> 00:00:33,599
Speaker 1: high school. When I was twenty, I got pregnant and

13
00:00:33,640 --> 00:00:36,559
Speaker 1: we moved in together. But he cheated a lot, so

14
00:00:36,600 --> 00:00:39,440
Speaker 1: when my son was six, we broke up and my

15
00:00:39,600 --> 00:00:43,199
Speaker 1: mom offered to let him live with her temporarily. My

16
00:00:43,320 --> 00:00:46,880
Speaker 1: son is sixteen now and my baby daddy still lives

17
00:00:47,000 --> 00:00:50,199
Speaker 1: with my mom. My mom has seven sisters that are

18
00:00:50,400 --> 00:00:53,880
Speaker 1: very messy and there they've always joked with my mom

19
00:00:53,920 --> 00:00:56,760
Speaker 1: about having a fine young man living with her. One

20
00:00:56,800 --> 00:00:59,600
Speaker 1: of my aunts has said for years that she's one

21
00:00:59,680 --> 00:01:02,760
Speaker 1: hundred percent sure that my mom and baby daddy are

22
00:01:02,800 --> 00:01:05,960
Speaker 1: messing around. She swears that my mom got drunk at

23
00:01:06,000 --> 00:01:08,039
Speaker 1: a house party and went into the bathroom with my

24
00:01:08,080 --> 00:01:10,440
Speaker 1: baby daddy for close to twenty minutes and came out

25
00:01:10,440 --> 00:01:11,560
Speaker 1: bragging about.

26
00:01:11,480 --> 00:01:12,320
Speaker 2: How good he was.

27
00:01:12,600 --> 00:01:16,160
Speaker 1: Over the years, I heard stuff like, How'sjamma and baby Daddy.

28
00:01:16,360 --> 00:01:18,840
Speaker 1: One of my older aunts finally told me the truth,

29
00:01:19,120 --> 00:01:21,560
Speaker 1: but I didn't want to believe it. She said that

30
00:01:21,640 --> 00:01:24,839
Speaker 1: my mom told her she really likes my baby daddy

31
00:01:24,840 --> 00:01:28,240
Speaker 1: and it's way more than a sugar mama thing. She said,

32
00:01:28,319 --> 00:01:30,800
Speaker 1: my mom feels terrible about it, and she's not going

33
00:01:30,840 --> 00:01:33,680
Speaker 1: to stop having sex with him or put him out

34
00:01:34,800 --> 00:01:37,600
Speaker 1: the short A short while after that, my baby Daddy

35
00:01:37,640 --> 00:01:40,360
Speaker 1: came over to see our son and he had been drinking.

36
00:01:40,760 --> 00:01:43,640
Speaker 1: They were playing video games and my baby daddy's phone rang.

37
00:01:44,360 --> 00:01:46,840
Speaker 1: My son heard him say I love you too, baby,

38
00:01:46,959 --> 00:01:49,640
Speaker 1: and I'll be home after I beat your grandson in

39
00:01:49,760 --> 00:01:53,639
Speaker 1: one more game. My son tried to fight his daddy

40
00:01:53,680 --> 00:01:56,919
Speaker 1: and I had to get between them. My baby daddy

41
00:01:56,960 --> 00:01:59,240
Speaker 1: told my son he teach him about being a man

42
00:01:59,400 --> 00:02:03,040
Speaker 1: later and how stuff like this just happened. I tell

43
00:02:03,160 --> 00:02:06,560
Speaker 1: my son that's not what manhood is about, and how

44
00:02:06,600 --> 00:02:09,080
Speaker 1: do I fix this for my son? I'm hurt too,

45
00:02:09,480 --> 00:02:13,720
Speaker 1: but I'm more worried about him. This is really sad.

46
00:02:14,080 --> 00:02:17,799
Speaker 1: I mean, this is a horrible, horrible situation here. I mean,

47
00:02:17,840 --> 00:02:21,280
Speaker 1: your mom did the ultimate betrayal, and I could see

48
00:02:21,400 --> 00:02:23,480
Speaker 1: why you didn't want to hear the truth because you

49
00:02:23,560 --> 00:02:27,040
Speaker 1: probably already suspected it anyway, but you didn't want to

50
00:02:27,080 --> 00:02:31,120
Speaker 1: hear it because this is your mother. It's unthinkable. I mean,

51
00:02:31,200 --> 00:02:34,640
Speaker 1: you know you're beyond mad at this point. I know

52
00:02:34,760 --> 00:02:36,640
Speaker 1: you want to fight her. You want to fight your mom,

53
00:02:36,639 --> 00:02:39,840
Speaker 1: and you probably would if it wasn't your mom. I mean,

54
00:02:39,880 --> 00:02:43,840
Speaker 1: this is not what a mom does to her daughter this.

55
00:02:44,480 --> 00:02:49,480
Speaker 1: Moms don't do this, and to her grandson for that matter.

56
00:02:49,800 --> 00:02:52,160
Speaker 1: I mean, both of them are to blame, of course.

57
00:02:52,200 --> 00:02:56,440
Speaker 1: The baby daddy, oh my god. But it's just it's

58
00:02:56,480 --> 00:02:57,560
Speaker 1: hard to get over.

59
00:02:57,560 --> 00:02:59,400
Speaker 2: This kind of hurt. It's hard.

60
00:03:00,040 --> 00:03:01,880
Speaker 1: Doesn't matter if you and the baby daddy were no

61
00:03:01,960 --> 00:03:04,799
Speaker 1: longer together, that doesn't even matter at this point. It's

62
00:03:04,919 --> 00:03:08,840
Speaker 1: just wrong. Okay, you told your son right when you

63
00:03:08,880 --> 00:03:11,960
Speaker 1: said that this is not what manhood is about. His

64
00:03:12,000 --> 00:03:16,119
Speaker 1: father is a very poor example of manhood. How can

65
00:03:16,120 --> 00:03:20,799
Speaker 1: he date his son's grandmother and his mother. I mean

66
00:03:21,320 --> 00:03:24,959
Speaker 1: stuff like that. It just doesn't happen, so he told

67
00:03:25,040 --> 00:03:29,320
Speaker 1: him wrong. So his you know, he's teaching a son

68
00:03:29,560 --> 00:03:34,600
Speaker 1: that men have no control over themselves or they just

69
00:03:34,800 --> 00:03:37,320
Speaker 1: you know, if it's okay, if they date their mom

70
00:03:37,520 --> 00:03:42,360
Speaker 1: and their grandmother, that's okay. No, that's not okay. It's

71
00:03:42,480 --> 00:03:47,600
Speaker 1: just really wrong. You know. My suggestion is to, I

72
00:03:47,600 --> 00:03:50,440
Speaker 1: don't know, get your son to a mentor, a real

73
00:03:50,520 --> 00:03:53,800
Speaker 1: good mentor a good example of what a man should

74
00:03:53,840 --> 00:03:56,320
Speaker 1: be in his life, so he could show him what

75
00:03:56,360 --> 00:03:59,000
Speaker 1: it really is all about. It's not what his father

76
00:03:59,160 --> 00:04:02,120
Speaker 1: is talking about now, this mess, but I mean that.

77
00:04:02,360 --> 00:04:05,680
Speaker 1: That is my suggestion to you talk more to your son,

78
00:04:06,680 --> 00:04:09,680
Speaker 1: you know, about this situation, because I'm sure he's upset,

79
00:04:09,760 --> 00:04:11,840
Speaker 1: and why would his dad say that in front of

80
00:04:11,920 --> 00:04:15,120
Speaker 1: him anyway, to his grandmother? You know this this is

81
00:04:15,200 --> 00:04:18,600
Speaker 1: just a mess. But I would look into a mentor

82
00:04:18,640 --> 00:04:22,200
Speaker 1: some man that will be a shining example to what

83
00:04:22,279 --> 00:04:24,120
Speaker 1: a man should be for your son.

84
00:04:24,279 --> 00:04:29,120
Speaker 4: Steve, Okay, sure, I agree. I agree. I have so

85
00:04:29,200 --> 00:04:31,360
Speaker 4: many problems in this latter. At first I was going

86
00:04:31,400 --> 00:04:34,960
Speaker 4: to joke about it, but then it turned really seriously

87
00:04:35,040 --> 00:04:39,320
Speaker 4: because there's a little boy involved. Y'all, adults, I don't

88
00:04:39,360 --> 00:04:42,720
Speaker 4: care what y'all do, But I do care about what

89
00:04:42,800 --> 00:04:48,960
Speaker 4: adults do in front of children, and especially men, because men,

90
00:04:50,080 --> 00:04:52,040
Speaker 4: you just have to do a better job of setting

91
00:04:52,080 --> 00:04:54,960
Speaker 4: examples for our sons, you know.

92
00:04:55,520 --> 00:04:57,960
Speaker 2: I mean, it's for the little things.

93
00:04:57,760 --> 00:05:00,640
Speaker 4: It's okay to tell your son not to cry, but

94
00:05:00,680 --> 00:05:06,440
Speaker 4: you also have to inform him that it's okay to cry.

95
00:05:04,839 --> 00:05:07,040
Speaker 2: You know what I mean. That has to be a balance.

96
00:05:08,160 --> 00:05:08,359
Speaker 3: You know.

97
00:05:10,400 --> 00:05:13,919
Speaker 4: Listen, you got pregnant when you was twenty with your

98
00:05:13,960 --> 00:05:18,400
Speaker 4: high school sweetheart, and y'all moved in together. But he

99
00:05:18,520 --> 00:05:21,520
Speaker 4: cheated a lot. The letter just takes a turn right away.

100
00:05:21,839 --> 00:05:24,400
Speaker 4: So when my son was six, we broke up and

101
00:05:24,520 --> 00:05:27,400
Speaker 4: my mom offered, and my mom offered to let him

102
00:05:27,440 --> 00:05:28,760
Speaker 4: live with her temporarily.

103
00:05:29,080 --> 00:05:31,880
Speaker 2: Wait a minute, HOLDO, I'm confused.

104
00:05:33,000 --> 00:05:36,880
Speaker 4: You and your boyfriend break up and you have a baby,

105
00:05:37,360 --> 00:05:40,120
Speaker 4: your mom offers to let him come live with her.

106
00:05:40,440 --> 00:05:42,400
Speaker 4: Why don't you and the boy go live with your mama.

107
00:05:42,440 --> 00:05:45,480
Speaker 4: That's normally how it go in the normal scope of things.

108
00:05:46,120 --> 00:05:49,280
Speaker 4: The daughter goes with her mom with her son, so

109
00:05:49,320 --> 00:05:52,600
Speaker 4: she'll have some help and you know, and let this

110
00:05:52,720 --> 00:05:57,960
Speaker 4: dude fin for hisself. That's all that was. So I

111
00:05:58,040 --> 00:06:01,520
Speaker 4: was confused about that well. My son is now sixteen,

112
00:06:01,960 --> 00:06:05,440
Speaker 4: and my baby daddy still live with his mom. My

113
00:06:05,480 --> 00:06:08,000
Speaker 4: mom has seven sisters and they're very messing. They've always

114
00:06:08,040 --> 00:06:10,080
Speaker 4: joked with my mom about having a fine young man

115
00:06:10,160 --> 00:06:12,960
Speaker 4: living with her. Excuse me, he left when he was sick.

116
00:06:13,080 --> 00:06:15,680
Speaker 4: Your son said, he been at your mama house ten years?

117
00:06:16,080 --> 00:06:17,760
Speaker 2: Right? Ten years?

118
00:06:18,240 --> 00:06:24,560
Speaker 4: Who need ten years to get on their feet? Who

119
00:06:26,120 --> 00:06:33,040
Speaker 4: anybody can pull it together in ten years? I'm confused.

120
00:06:33,080 --> 00:06:34,520
Speaker 4: I have more when we come back.

121
00:06:34,560 --> 00:06:39,359
Speaker 2: But this is truly, yeah, it really is bad.

122
00:06:40,720 --> 00:06:45,280
Speaker 1: It's bad, all right, Steve. We'll have part two of

123
00:06:45,320 --> 00:06:48,080
Speaker 1: your response coming up at twenty three minutes after the hour.

124
00:06:48,200 --> 00:06:50,400
Speaker 1: My mom and my baby daddy. We'll get back into

125
00:06:50,520 --> 00:06:54,560
Speaker 1: it right after this. You're listening Steve Harvey Morning Show.

126
00:07:00,000 --> 00:07:02,920
Speaker 3: This message is brought to you by Pfizer. Let's talk hell.

127
00:07:03,120 --> 00:07:05,800
Speaker 3: You may not know about numa cocco disease, but if

128
00:07:05,839 --> 00:07:08,559
Speaker 3: you're fifty years older or nineteen or older with certain

129
00:07:08,560 --> 00:07:11,880
Speaker 3: medical conditions like diabetes, you'll at risk and it can

130
00:07:11,880 --> 00:07:14,680
Speaker 3: turn your plans big or small, into a hospital visit.

131
00:07:14,800 --> 00:07:15,840
Speaker 2: So get vaccinated.

132
00:07:15,880 --> 00:07:17,880
Speaker 3: It's one action you can take to help protect against

133
00:07:17,920 --> 00:07:22,600
Speaker 3: numacaco pneumonia and invasive numacaco disease. Keepings on everything you

134
00:07:22,760 --> 00:07:26,320
Speaker 3: looking forward to, even if it's just the podcast schedule

135
00:07:26,320 --> 00:07:31,000
Speaker 3: a shot at Vaxsassists dot com. That's vachsassists dot com.

136
00:07:31,040 --> 00:07:34,160
Speaker 1: All right, come on, Steve, let's recap today's Strawberry Letters.

137
00:07:34,200 --> 00:07:36,480
Speaker 1: Subject my mom and my baby Daddy.

138
00:07:37,160 --> 00:07:40,880
Speaker 4: Well, this young lady twenty years old got pregnant by

139
00:07:40,920 --> 00:07:43,520
Speaker 4: her high school sweetheart that move in together. He cheated

140
00:07:43,520 --> 00:07:46,480
Speaker 4: a lot, so when their son was six, they broke

141
00:07:46,600 --> 00:07:49,960
Speaker 4: up and her mother offered to let him live with

142
00:07:50,040 --> 00:07:50,920
Speaker 4: her temporarily.

143
00:07:51,480 --> 00:07:53,640
Speaker 2: Like I said earlier, that's backward.

144
00:07:53,880 --> 00:07:56,440
Speaker 4: Usually the girl and the baby go stay with one

145
00:07:56,480 --> 00:07:59,320
Speaker 4: of their pairs so they can have some help and assistance,

146
00:07:59,600 --> 00:08:02,480
Speaker 4: and let the guy go fearing for himself. That was

147
00:08:02,600 --> 00:08:06,320
Speaker 4: backwards already. Well, my son is sixteen now. My baby

148
00:08:06,400 --> 00:08:09,800
Speaker 4: daddy still live with his mama. With your mama, that's

149
00:08:09,800 --> 00:08:12,680
Speaker 4: ten years. He been at your mama's house for ten

150
00:08:12,760 --> 00:08:15,920
Speaker 4: years now. If she was honestly trying to help him

151
00:08:15,920 --> 00:08:18,560
Speaker 4: out in the beginning, she been.

152
00:08:18,440 --> 00:08:19,640
Speaker 2: Helping him for ten years?

153
00:08:20,640 --> 00:08:24,000
Speaker 4: Has she been helping her daughter and her grandchild or

154
00:08:24,480 --> 00:08:25,840
Speaker 4: she just helping him?

155
00:08:28,000 --> 00:08:28,920
Speaker 2: This sucks, man.

156
00:08:30,000 --> 00:08:33,720
Speaker 4: Now my mom has seven sisters that are very messy,

157
00:08:33,920 --> 00:08:36,320
Speaker 4: and they've always joked with my mom about having a

158
00:08:36,320 --> 00:08:37,760
Speaker 4: fine young man living with her.

159
00:08:38,200 --> 00:08:39,360
Speaker 2: Well, let me throw this in.

160
00:08:39,760 --> 00:08:42,760
Speaker 4: If your mom got seven sisters that are messy, ain't

161
00:08:43,120 --> 00:08:45,760
Speaker 4: ain't your mama one of his sisters. Ain't she from

162
00:08:45,800 --> 00:08:49,480
Speaker 4: a messy family? Oh? Oh, starting to sound like the

163
00:08:49,559 --> 00:08:53,040
Speaker 4: story to me. If all seven of your sisters is messy,

164
00:08:53,240 --> 00:08:55,400
Speaker 4: how does she skip the messiness?

165
00:08:55,960 --> 00:08:56,520
Speaker 2: She didn't?

166
00:08:57,000 --> 00:08:59,160
Speaker 4: One of your aunts has said for years, and she's

167
00:08:59,200 --> 00:09:01,600
Speaker 4: one undred position sure that my mom and baby daddy

168
00:09:01,600 --> 00:09:06,480
Speaker 4: are messing around. Well, he's been there ten years. Who

169
00:09:06,600 --> 00:09:08,200
Speaker 4: living at this house for ten years?

170
00:09:08,400 --> 00:09:08,680
Speaker 1: And what.

171
00:09:11,200 --> 00:09:11,400
Speaker 2: Now?

172
00:09:11,400 --> 00:09:13,720
Speaker 4: She swears that my mom got drunk at the house

173
00:09:13,760 --> 00:09:19,880
Speaker 4: party right there. See, we're in the family that's still

174
00:09:19,920 --> 00:09:26,079
Speaker 4: throwing house party. You see where this is going. There's

175
00:09:26,120 --> 00:09:29,240
Speaker 4: no progression in this story at all. Your mama got

176
00:09:29,320 --> 00:09:32,720
Speaker 4: drunk at the house party. How old are you to

177
00:09:32,800 --> 00:09:35,080
Speaker 4: stop going to house parties and get drunk?

178
00:09:35,640 --> 00:09:36,680
Speaker 2: Let's see this story.

179
00:09:36,679 --> 00:09:40,280
Speaker 4: Ain't got no upside and came and went to the

180
00:09:41,720 --> 00:09:44,079
Speaker 4: then went into the bathroom with your baby daddy for

181
00:09:44,120 --> 00:09:47,120
Speaker 4: close to twenty minutes, came out bragging about how.

182
00:09:47,040 --> 00:09:49,839
Speaker 2: Good he was. You saw Boomerain.

183
00:09:55,960 --> 00:09:59,959
Speaker 4: You saw the movie when the late great Witherspoon came

184
00:10:00,040 --> 00:10:01,960
Speaker 4: out of their bathroom with that jacket inside out.

185
00:10:02,000 --> 00:10:02,600
Speaker 2: You saw him.

186
00:10:03,400 --> 00:10:04,079
Speaker 1: You embarrass me.

187
00:10:04,200 --> 00:10:07,040
Speaker 2: Ever, I heard stuff.

188
00:10:06,800 --> 00:10:09,480
Speaker 4: Like how your mama and baby daddy. One of my

189
00:10:09,640 --> 00:10:12,320
Speaker 4: older aunts finally told me the truth, but I didn't

190
00:10:12,360 --> 00:10:13,160
Speaker 4: want to believe her.

191
00:10:13,480 --> 00:10:13,920
Speaker 2: What is it?

192
00:10:14,000 --> 00:10:17,720
Speaker 4: You didn't want to believe one of the older aunts

193
00:10:17,760 --> 00:10:19,839
Speaker 4: finally told her, and you didn't even want to believe it.

194
00:10:20,200 --> 00:10:25,720
Speaker 2: Why he been over that ten years? She said, Your mom.

195
00:10:25,600 --> 00:10:27,839
Speaker 4: Told her she really likes my baby daddy and it's

196
00:10:27,880 --> 00:10:29,320
Speaker 4: more than a sugar mama thing.

197
00:10:30,200 --> 00:10:33,600
Speaker 2: Okay, so she taking care of this boy, she said.

198
00:10:33,679 --> 00:10:36,160
Speaker 4: My mom feels terrible about it, but she's not gonna

199
00:10:36,160 --> 00:10:39,240
Speaker 4: stop having sex with him or put him out for

200
00:10:39,400 --> 00:10:39,760
Speaker 4: a while.

201
00:10:39,760 --> 00:10:42,520
Speaker 2: After that, my baby daddy came over to see our son.

202
00:10:43,840 --> 00:10:47,960
Speaker 4: He been drinking. Okay, See there's no progression in this store.

203
00:10:48,520 --> 00:10:51,480
Speaker 4: Your baby daddy's still drinking. Your baby daddy still live

204
00:10:51,520 --> 00:10:53,240
Speaker 4: at home with yo mama.

205
00:10:53,960 --> 00:10:54,600
Speaker 2: You're a boy.

206
00:10:55,200 --> 00:10:59,440
Speaker 4: He been over that ten years. He thirty four. You

207
00:10:59,480 --> 00:11:02,320
Speaker 4: got pregnant at twenty. Your husband was six when he left.

208
00:11:02,400 --> 00:11:06,079
Speaker 4: He been over that ten years. Your husband thirty six,

209
00:11:06,200 --> 00:11:06,800
Speaker 4: years old.

210
00:11:08,080 --> 00:11:09,199
Speaker 2: He said he was six.

211
00:11:09,960 --> 00:11:10,040
Speaker 3: Ye.

212
00:11:10,240 --> 00:11:14,040
Speaker 4: No, the boy was sick. The baby was sick when

213
00:11:14,080 --> 00:11:15,640
Speaker 4: he wouldn't live with your mama. He's been over that

214
00:11:15,760 --> 00:11:20,839
Speaker 4: ten years. He was pregnant at twenty. Your man is boy,

215
00:11:21,520 --> 00:11:26,560
Speaker 4: your baby's daddy, boy is thirty six and live with

216
00:11:26,640 --> 00:11:30,760
Speaker 4: your mama, that she taken care of, and she wanted

217
00:11:30,760 --> 00:11:33,200
Speaker 4: to have sex with a machine, putting him out. Then

218
00:11:33,240 --> 00:11:35,319
Speaker 4: your baby daddy came over to see our son. He

219
00:11:35,360 --> 00:11:38,400
Speaker 4: was drinking at thirty six, still drinking, still living home

220
00:11:38,440 --> 00:11:39,040
Speaker 4: with your mama.

221
00:11:39,440 --> 00:11:42,400
Speaker 2: They playing vidego games. My baby daddy phone ring.

222
00:11:42,880 --> 00:11:46,240
Speaker 4: Your son, who is older now heard him say I

223
00:11:46,320 --> 00:11:48,200
Speaker 4: love you too, baby, and I'll be home after I

224
00:11:48,240 --> 00:11:51,760
Speaker 4: beat your grandson in one more girl. Then your son

225
00:11:51,880 --> 00:11:54,880
Speaker 4: tried to fight his daddy. Why because your son know

226
00:11:54,960 --> 00:11:58,680
Speaker 4: that's wrong. However old your son is, he already know

227
00:11:58,800 --> 00:11:59,840
Speaker 4: his daddy wrong for that.

228
00:12:00,679 --> 00:12:02,000
Speaker 2: I had to get between them.

229
00:12:02,559 --> 00:12:05,319
Speaker 4: My baby daddy told my son he teach him about

230
00:12:05,360 --> 00:12:06,000
Speaker 4: being a man.

231
00:12:06,120 --> 00:12:08,720
Speaker 2: Later on, when is he gonna teach him? He don't know.

232
00:12:10,000 --> 00:12:11,120
Speaker 2: This is a trifling mom.

233
00:12:11,240 --> 00:12:15,120
Speaker 4: So this a trifling mama. This is a trifling baby daddy.

234
00:12:16,000 --> 00:12:18,720
Speaker 4: And so Shirley is correct. You gotta get a male

235
00:12:18,840 --> 00:12:21,839
Speaker 4: mentor in front of this young man. And it's a

236
00:12:21,960 --> 00:12:25,000
Speaker 4: damn shame that he gonna teach him about being a

237
00:12:25,000 --> 00:12:25,560
Speaker 4: man lady.

238
00:12:25,600 --> 00:12:28,800
Speaker 2: And how stuff like this just happens. It don't just happen.

239
00:12:29,400 --> 00:12:32,480
Speaker 4: See anything that's been happening for ten years don't just

240
00:12:32,720 --> 00:12:33,480
Speaker 4: keep happening.

241
00:12:34,640 --> 00:12:36,520
Speaker 2: At one point we on purpose.

242
00:12:38,120 --> 00:12:40,720
Speaker 4: You can write to having sex off with your mama,

243
00:12:40,880 --> 00:12:46,760
Speaker 4: your step mama one time, but unless you've been drunk

244
00:12:46,880 --> 00:12:54,360
Speaker 4: continuously for ten years, you ain't had a sober moment

245
00:12:55,040 --> 00:12:59,280
Speaker 4: in ten years to rethink this. I told my son

246
00:12:59,360 --> 00:13:02,319
Speaker 4: that's not what manhood is about. You are absolutely correct.

247
00:13:02,559 --> 00:13:04,760
Speaker 4: How do I fix this for my son? I'm hurt too,

248
00:13:04,840 --> 00:13:08,400
Speaker 4: but I'm more worried about him. Get your son around

249
00:13:08,400 --> 00:13:11,040
Speaker 4: some men, Get your son to church, Let him be

250
00:13:11,040 --> 00:13:14,640
Speaker 4: around some solid people. He's got to have faith in

251
00:13:14,640 --> 00:13:19,760
Speaker 4: this situation, and so do you. You may need counseling

252
00:13:20,200 --> 00:13:23,240
Speaker 4: and prayer, and you need to get yourself together so

253
00:13:23,320 --> 00:13:27,640
Speaker 4: you and your son can move forward. And I don't

254
00:13:27,640 --> 00:13:29,560
Speaker 4: know how you're going to address your mama with this,

255
00:13:29,720 --> 00:13:32,959
Speaker 4: but something got to get bought to light wrong.

256
00:13:33,559 --> 00:13:36,120
Speaker 2: Put acting like this is happening right here? All right?

257
00:13:36,160 --> 00:13:36,400
Speaker 1: Thanks?

258
00:13:36,640 --> 00:13:37,800
Speaker 2: I'd like the super glue.

259
00:13:39,440 --> 00:13:42,880
Speaker 1: Post your comments on Today's Strawberry Letter at Steve Harvey

260
00:13:43,080 --> 00:13:46,000
Speaker 1: FM on Instagram and Facebook. Check out the Strawberry Letter

261
00:13:46,040 --> 00:13:48,880
Speaker 1: podcast on demand. Coming up more of the Steve Harvey

262
00:13:48,880 --> 00:13:52,400
Speaker 1: Morning Show. Right after this you're listening to the Steve

263
00:13:52,520 --> 00:13:53,520
Speaker 1: Harvey Morning Show.