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Speaker 1: Subject, Thank you nephew, because I just heard uncle. I

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Speaker 1: didn't hear buckle. I didn't hear that be subject. He

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Speaker 1: moved her in to take care of me. Dear Stephen Shirley,

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Speaker 1: My husband and I have been married for four years,

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Speaker 1: but we've been together for twelve years. We've been back

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Speaker 1: and forth with a lot of our decisions. At first,

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Speaker 1: we didn't think we had to get married to make

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Speaker 1: Now here we are after saying we did not want

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Speaker 1: forty three, so as you know, it's harder for older moms.

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Speaker 1: I went back into the office a month ago. My

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Speaker 1: husband is a flight attendant, so his schedule is all

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Speaker 1: over the place. He suggested that one of our good

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Speaker 1: friends move in temporarily to help us with our daughter.

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Speaker 1: She's divorced and in between jobs, so he offered to

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Speaker 1: now I'm sick of her. Honestly, I'm sick of both

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Speaker 1: her and my husband, and it's only been two weeks.

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Speaker 1: I can't focus while I'm working because I'm worried about

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Speaker 1: what's going on with my baby, my husband, and our

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Speaker 1: friend while I'm not at home. There is a nice

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Speaker 1: at night. She's more of my husband's friend than mine,

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Speaker 1: so I expected him to tell her to sleep in

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Speaker 1: the bed and not on our other furniture. But I

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Speaker 1: going on. She is more of a problem than a helper.

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Speaker 1: How do I break the news to her that she's

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Speaker 1: got to go? How do I get my husband to

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Speaker 1: be okay with my decision. Well, that's going to be

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Speaker 1: a tough one because you said he's more your husband's

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Speaker 1: friend than yours. But what why are you acting like

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Speaker 1: this isn't your house and you have no say and

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Speaker 1: what goes down in your house? Because it is your

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Speaker 2: To speak up.

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Speaker 1: Your husband is not going to do it, obviously he

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Speaker 1: hasn't done it yet. It's only been two weeks. But

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Speaker 1: she's supposed to be helping, right. I think he's enjoying

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Speaker 1: it way too much having her there. And I thought

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Speaker 1: baby and stuff. What happened with that? This woman, this

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Speaker 1: friend of you guys, your husband's, has overstepped and overstayed

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Speaker 1: her welcome. I think you need to talk to your husband,

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Speaker 1: let him know that it is time for his friend,

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Speaker 1: she's his friend now to go because in the beginning

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Speaker 1: of the letter, she was both of your friend. Now

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Speaker 1: she's just his friend. The problem is she doesn't have

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Speaker 1: a job to get a place of her own own,

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Speaker 1: but I'm sure she has other friends and relatives that

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Speaker 1: in your own home, you can't sleep. It's true that

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Speaker 1: she and your husband are way too close for comfort,

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Speaker 1: and you shouldn't trust them. Whatever they call themselves doing

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Speaker 1: when it gets quiet, you should have a problem with that.

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Speaker 3: Steve, Well, surely back at him another home going to hell? Well,

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Speaker 3: let me see if I get fiction he moved her

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Speaker 3: in to take care of me. Now, this letter has

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Speaker 2: First, y'all been married for.

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Speaker 3: Four years, been together twelve, back and forth on your decisions.

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Speaker 3: You didn't think you needed to get married to make

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Speaker 3: y'all both decided you want kids, You got.

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Speaker 2: A four month old.

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Speaker 3: Then you said something, You said, you know it's harder

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Speaker 3: I would imagine if I'd have had the lady and

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Speaker 3: somebody had to go through all this pain to have whoo,

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Speaker 3: y'all's really yeah, I mean really, that's what really gets

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Speaker 3: and agony to have this baby. Now this even talking back,

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Speaker 3: What do you know what I did to get you here?

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Speaker 3: That's what women be mad about. And I understand that

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Speaker 2: So you forty three.

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Speaker 3: So you know you went on back to the office

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Speaker 3: a month ago. Your husband is a flight attendant, so

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Speaker 3: his schedule is all over the place.

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Speaker 2: Now here's his fix.

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Speaker 3: He suggested that one of our good friends move in

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Speaker 3: is joint, right now, our good friend move in with

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Speaker 3: us to help with our daughter. It's all all consensual.

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Speaker 3: It's all.

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Speaker 2: Joint. She's divorced and in between jobs, so he offered

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Speaker 3: I thought it was a sweet gesture. See what you did.

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Speaker 3: You thought it was sweet. But now I'm sick of her. Honestly,

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Speaker 3: I'm sick of her and my husband. And it's only

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Speaker 3: been two weeks because y'all got a stranger in y'all's house.

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Speaker 3: But once again, though, before we come back, we gonna

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Speaker 3: get into what I keep telling y'all about these opposite

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Speaker 2: I don't know how many times I gotta tell y'all.

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Speaker 3: But y'all not listening. Then it just it don't ever work.

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Speaker 3: And sometimes you learn sooner than later. It only took

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Speaker 3: you two weeks. So we come back. I'm gonna show

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Speaker 3: you what the problem is, and here's a solution.

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Speaker 2: I have something right, all right, Steve.

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Speaker 1: We'll have part two of your response coming up at

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Speaker 1: twenty three minutes after today's Strawberry letter subject he moved

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Speaker 1: her in to take care of me. We'll get back

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Speaker 1: let's recap today's Strawberry letter. The subject is he moved

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Speaker 1: her in to take care of me.

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Speaker 3: Well, and you thought you said it was a nice gesture, right,

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Speaker 3: But then it was a joint decision. Y'all decided to

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Speaker 3: move her in to help y'all decide to move her

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Speaker 3: in to help y'all with y'all's daughter.

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Speaker 2: Voice in between jobs. So you agreed to.

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Speaker 3: Pay her all This was discussed, Yes, yes, yes, And

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Speaker 3: you said it was a sweet gesture, all right. Now, honestly,

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Speaker 3: I'm sick of her and my husband, and it ain't

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Speaker 3: been but two weeks. I can't focus while I'm at

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Speaker 3: work because I'm worried about what's going on with my baby,

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Speaker 3: my husband, and our friend.

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Speaker 2: See what happened to the sweet gesture? Now?

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Speaker 3: I thought your husband's schedule was all over the place

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Speaker 3: because he'll flight it to but now you can't focus

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Speaker 3: at work because you wonder what's going on with your baby,

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Speaker 3: your husband and a friend. Let's take the baby off

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Speaker 3: do this. That ain't what you're worried. It's two grown ups,

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Speaker 2: That's all this is.

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Speaker 3: This is there's a nice day bed in our baby's room,

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Speaker 3: but our our friend choosing to sleep on our couch

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Speaker 3: so she can watch TV at night.

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Speaker 2: Well that makes sense.

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Speaker 3: You ain't got no TV in the baby room, so

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Speaker 2: Now, why you're assuming he should know that?

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Speaker 3: You want him to have a problem with it and

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Speaker 2: But you ain't said nothing to him about it, though.

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Speaker 3: But I should have known he wouldn't do it, because

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Speaker 3: they sit up all night keykred and playing calls ain't nothing.

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Speaker 2: I don't know how to play nothing, just sitting round,

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Speaker 2: Is more. She's more of a problem than a helper.

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Speaker 3: And how do I get my husband to be okay

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Speaker 2: Well, I don't.

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Speaker 3: I know a lot of married people, and sometimes the

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Speaker 1: I'm just saying, sometimes you're just gonna do what she

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Speaker 3: But obviously you feel some kind of way because it

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Speaker 3: wherein you have to death? They sitting there, key kid,

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Speaker 3: all night? How many times I've told y'all about these

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Speaker 2: How hard you think they're gonna be laughing until at night?

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Speaker 3: For one of these laughs turned into a sly smile,

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Speaker 3: And then that sly smile turned into a little hood.

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Speaker 3: Next thing you know, your lips rubbed against her lips.

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Speaker 3: this couch is a daybed, a night bad and pull out. Now,

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Speaker 3: ain't so quiet in the living room no more? Now

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Speaker 3: you donna walk in. You can't hear nothing but TV

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Speaker 3: right right, and to cover up the sounds they do

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Speaker 3: cut on the Western channels, some cowboys and then and

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Speaker 3: there and they're shooting.

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Speaker 1: Yeah they and they're.

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Speaker 3: Kissing so hard and kissing so hard and grinding. They

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Speaker 1: Whoa, she's got to go.

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Speaker 3: She got that leg up on the back of that couch.

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Speaker 3: You see what's about.

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Speaker 2: To go down? Yeah? With your friends though, remember that? Yeah?

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Speaker 2: Lord?

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Speaker 3: So how do I get my husband to be okay

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Speaker 3: with decisions? He not finna be okay with this decision?

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Speaker 3: no sleep.

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Speaker 2: No, you can't play cards. You up all night, girl,

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