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Speaker 1: Tickets to the Strawberry Letter and Star Tim. Y'all buckle

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Speaker 1: up and hold on tight. Sberry Letter three, subject cheating

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Speaker 1: boyfriend I Steve, I want your advice. My boyfriend and

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Speaker 1: I have a relationship for six years. He started cheating

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Speaker 1: on me three years ago. He had a child with

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Speaker 1: that girl, and now he's cheating again. His mother stopped

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Speaker 1: talking to me because she thought I was trying to

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Speaker 1: take her son from her. I wrote him a letter

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Speaker 1: a while back, telling him that I need him to

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Speaker 1: be a man and um that I can rely on

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Speaker 1: the man that I need to have our household, and

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Speaker 1: the only way that can happen is if you stop

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Speaker 1: allowing his mother to control him and our relationship as well.

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Speaker 1: His mother read the letter, and since then, his mother

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Speaker 1: has been out to get me. She's told millions of

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Speaker 1: lies on me. She's encouraged him to bring the girl

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Speaker 1: home even when she knew we were still together. She

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Speaker 1: even told me to stay away from her son and

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Speaker 1: stopped coming between him and the girl. Now he's telling

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Speaker 1: me he wants to marry me, but he's just not

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Speaker 1: ready for it, making excuses about work and money and

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Speaker 1: different stuff. Now I've been with him through thick and thin.

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Speaker 1: Despite the fact that everyone's advice to me is to

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Speaker 1: leave him, I'm seeking your advice, advice for a man

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Speaker 1: with no interest of gaining Now I've been hearing rumors

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Speaker 1: that he's been telling people that I'm running him down,

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Speaker 1: when this is not true. There were a couple of

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Speaker 1: times when I tried ending it and he asked me back,

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Speaker 1: what should I believe? I'm so confused. I'm confused too

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Speaker 1: with this entire letter. I'm confused while you're still in

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Speaker 1: this relationship, That's what I'm confused about. And where's this

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Speaker 1: relationship going? Six years you've been in this and you've

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Speaker 1: been through cheating that resulted in a baby. Now you

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Speaker 1: say he's cheating again. I just got to ask you,

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Speaker 1: why are you letting this man treat you like this?

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Speaker 1: He's doing whatever he wants to do, and you've just

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Speaker 1: been there taking it for the last six years. I mean,

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Speaker 1: don't you see that you he his mother is not

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Speaker 1: the problem here. Uh really, his mother is doing you

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Speaker 1: a favor. You should take her advice and get out

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Speaker 1: of this relationship with this man period. Steve well Man um,

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Speaker 1: this to me is a clear cut letter about a

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Speaker 1: mama's boy. This is a letter about a mama's boy

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Speaker 1: that you've fallen in love with it and it's not working. Uh,

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Speaker 1: you say, Steve, I want your advice. You want the

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Speaker 1: advice from somebody. Uh yeah, okay, So here it is.

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Speaker 1: First of all, you've been in a relationship like Shirley

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Speaker 1: Safe for six years. Where is this going? Secondly, he

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Speaker 1: started cheating on you three years ago. He had a

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Speaker 1: what is this relationship that you all have or what

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Speaker 1: is it called? What? What title do you have from

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Speaker 1: you know? I don't I don't know what you call this?

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Speaker 1: Right here? You're in a real relationship. He's not. See,

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Speaker 1: lady ladies missed that. Sometimes sometimes you're in a more

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Speaker 1: of a committed relationship than the guy is. Sometimes just sometimes,

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Speaker 1: you know, and then sometimes things happen. I'll just tell

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Speaker 1: your goals both ways, so you know you could have that. Uh. Then, uh,

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Speaker 1: you thought that you had a problem with her mama

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Speaker 1: because she's trying to take you're trying to take her

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Speaker 1: son from her. That's a mama's boy. I wrote him

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Speaker 1: a letter while back telling to him that here's the problem.

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Speaker 1: In your laft, I need him to be a man. Well,

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Speaker 1: if he don't want to be a man, you're needing

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Speaker 1: someone to be a man who don't want to be

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Speaker 1: a man yet, or it's not a man yet, you know,

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Speaker 1: maybe he's just not developed there yet. Then you say

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Speaker 1: to head our household. Well, let me tell you what happens.

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Speaker 1: Even if you marry this boy right now, this mama's boy,

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Speaker 1: he's not gonna head the house. His mother is gonna

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Speaker 1: any woman that's married to a mama's boy if that

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Speaker 1: ain't how it works. So what you're really asking this

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Speaker 1: boy to do is be a man he's not ready

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Speaker 1: you all's household because that's your dream one day of

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Speaker 1: having a man to head up the household. But if

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Speaker 1: you marry mama's boy, the mother is actually gonna become

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Speaker 1: be a miserable situation. I give you more when we

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Speaker 1: we come back. This woman writes his letter entitled cheating

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Speaker 1: mama's boy. You got a couple of problems. Your man

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Speaker 1: is cheating on him. That's a problem. And he's a

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Speaker 1: mama's boy, which I can't even tell you the problems

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Speaker 1: it's gonna lead into, but you're already running into him.

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Speaker 1: She's spread rumors about you. She read your letter that

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Speaker 1: you read to him. Most mothers, if a woman writes

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Speaker 1: a letter to her son that's private information, she won't

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Speaker 1: to the house telling you to stay out of their way,

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Speaker 1: or the other boy and the other girl. So not

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Speaker 1: a mama know he cheating, She condoning it. He ain't stopping.

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Speaker 1: He's doing everything but stopping cheating. There's nothing in your

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Speaker 1: excuses about work and money and different stuff. Excuse me,

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Speaker 1: you're gonna marry a man who ain't working, who makes

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Speaker 1: excuse about working. Look, I got if a guy been

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Speaker 1: half of him. Fine work, But this door is making

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Speaker 1: excuses for not working. He don't want to work, he

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Speaker 1: what else. The excuses are coming in. He says, he

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Speaker 1: wants to marry you. If you marry this boy right here,

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Speaker 1: you're going to make a huge mistake with your life.

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Speaker 1: Now here's the problem that one of the number one

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Speaker 1: him through thick and thin, despite that, everyone advises me

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Speaker 1: this six years invested, and women always do that, you

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Speaker 1: always you always look one of your biggest mistakes is

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Speaker 1: you put this time in and you don't want to

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Speaker 1: consider it a waste. Well, let me turn your onto something.

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Speaker 1: The real waste is to continue what you know is

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Speaker 1: not good. For you. See, Okay, look, everybody makes mistakes.

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Speaker 1: So you put six years in thinking it was gonna

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Speaker 1: turn around and it didn't. That's some stake A lot

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Speaker 1: of people make that. Who hasn't done it? I've done it.

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Speaker 1: Everybody has done it. But once you realize something is

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Speaker 1: all the evidency in and the change that you're waiting

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Speaker 1: on never comes and you continue to stay in it,

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Speaker 1: that from that moment on is when you're wasting time.

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Speaker 1: Because right, so, do not continue to waste time now

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Speaker 1: that you know it's bad for you, get out of

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Speaker 1: the ladies spreading rumors, telling people, and then you start

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Speaker 1: hearing rumors that he's telling people that I'm running him down.

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Speaker 1: This is not true. Why is he talking to other

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Speaker 1: people about you? What kind of no man does this?

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Speaker 1: None of my friends come to me talking about how

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Speaker 1: their wives ain't this for that that Real men just

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Speaker 1: don't do that with they boys. Man, I'm struggling, man,

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Speaker 1: my girl tripping? Man, she she found this on me

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Speaker 1: or something like that. We'll say that, but what we

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Speaker 1: ain't gonna say is, man, my girl, my girl ain't

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Speaker 1: this Mike. We don't go that to our friends that

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Speaker 1: hey man, you you need to get away from this

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Speaker 1: because this man ain't ready. You said he's not ready.

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Speaker 1: He's not ready. He's a mama's boy. He ain't working,

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Speaker 1: he don't want to be a man. He got other

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Speaker 1: women's just a boy. All right, Steve, we have to go.

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Speaker 1: We do email us your Instagram. I should taught them

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Speaker 1: today's letter at my girl. Surely okay. You're listening to

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