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Speaker 1: Thank you, nephew. Subject he's never ever pleased. Dear Stephen Shirley.

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Speaker 1: I'm thirty four years old and I own a hair salon.

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Speaker 1: In a strip mall. I've been hanging out with a

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Speaker 1: thirty eight year old dentist who works directly above my salon.

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Speaker 1: I need your advice on how to deal with him.

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Speaker 1: He is never ever pleased with anything, and the first

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Speaker 1: time we met, he came down to my salon and

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Speaker 1: told me to turn my music down. I told him

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Speaker 1: to relax, and he got mad. A few days after that,

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Speaker 1: he came back down and asked if he could get

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Speaker 1: ado over. He told me he was very accomplished and

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Speaker 1: listed all the things he owned, and said he is

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Speaker 1: single because he knows what he likes and won't settle

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Speaker 1: for less. I was intrigued and asked him to go

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Speaker 1: see a movie with me. He was displeased with the

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Speaker 1: a sun dress and sneakers, and he said he prefers

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Speaker 1: that women wear their toes. Out me up and he

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Speaker 1: commented that I live in a transitioning neighborhood, which to

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Speaker 1: me meant that I live in the ghetto. I told

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Speaker 1: him I would let his comment slide so we would

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Speaker 1: not argue. We still hang out and he's always complaining.

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Speaker 1: He tells me what I should do with my hair,

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Speaker 1: or what I should wear when we're hanging out. But

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Speaker 1: the most irritating thing about him is the sex. Don't

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Speaker 1: get me wrong, he's really good in bed, but he

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Speaker 1: told me that I fall short of pleasing him the

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Speaker 1: way he is used to getting pleased. I do my best,

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Speaker 1: but he critiques every sexual encounter we have and tells

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Speaker 1: me what I need to work on. I have never

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Speaker 1: been told that I can't please a man. I love

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Speaker 1: a challenge, but I feel like this is his way

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Speaker 1: of controlling me. Well I ever be able to please him?

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Speaker 1: Probably not? But who cares? Are you kidding me? Right now?

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Speaker 1: Just you know this guy, it only matters what you

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Speaker 1: think of you, okay, and most importantly, you still have

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Speaker 1: to be yourself. You still have to love yourself. I

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Speaker 1: do agree with you. I think he is controlling. His

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Speaker 1: words are just full of put downs. You don't need

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Speaker 1: to be controlled. You need to be appreciated and respected,

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Speaker 1: and according to you, he only criticizes and complaints to

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Speaker 1: you and about you. I don't like this guy. I

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Speaker 1: don't like him for you, and I hate the fact

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Speaker 1: that you think you need to please him. You don't.

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Speaker 1: You obviously have things going on for yourself. You must

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Speaker 1: be attractive, or he wouldn't have gone out of his

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Speaker 1: way to go out with you in the first place.

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Speaker 1: Remember he came back down there and asked you for

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Speaker 1: a do over. I think you're smart. You have to

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Speaker 1: be smart. You're a business owner. You must have to

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Speaker 1: have somewhat of a personality because in your business you

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Speaker 1: do have to deal with the crazy public. You know,

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Speaker 1: So don't let this guy keep putting you down, treating

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Speaker 1: you this way. I mean, who does he think he is?

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Speaker 1: Just because he's, in his words, a very accomplished dentist,

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Speaker 1: that doesn't mean that he knows how to deal with women.

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Speaker 1: I think a real man in this case, or a

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Speaker 1: gentleman who cares about you, would be trying to get

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Speaker 1: to know you, would be supportive of you. This guy,

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Speaker 1: I don't think he's worth your time. I mean, you

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Speaker 1: He is who he is because he doesn't think anything

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Speaker 1: is wrong with how he is. And so that's where you,

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Speaker 1: I think, should tell him what you're telling us in

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Speaker 1: this letter. You know about how he criticizes you and

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Speaker 1: all that. He's not gonna like it. He's not gonna

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Speaker 1: expect this from you because you haven't been letting him

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Speaker 1: know how you feel, and you've been letting him get

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Speaker 1: you know, until you do that, I say, don't go

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Speaker 1: any further with him. Steve, Wow, you know, I thought

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Speaker 1: this letter wasn't going here, and then the letter went there,

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Speaker 1: and then the letter turned back around. He's never ever pleased.

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Speaker 1: I think that's the key to this whole thing. This

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Speaker 1: in a strip mall. You've been hanging out with a

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Speaker 1: and now she needs our advice on how to deal

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Speaker 1: with him. And she says, point blank, he has never

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Speaker 1: ever pleased with anything. And the first time we met,

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Speaker 1: turn my music down. I told him me relax. He

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Speaker 1: asked if he could do a duover. See what happened

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Speaker 1: was he knew who you were. He went downstairs to

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Speaker 1: complain that was just the move to come downstairs. But

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Speaker 1: I can understand because you got a dentist office upstairs.

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Speaker 1: But you handled it perfectly. You told him, hey, look

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Speaker 1: just relax, it's no problem. I can turn it down.

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Speaker 1: So you did what he needed. And then after that

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Speaker 1: he came back and he found out he was wrong,

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Speaker 1: so he said, let me do a due over now.

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Speaker 1: When he was down there, he was assessing he's a man.

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Speaker 1: He looked around. He said, okay, she owns the salon.

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Speaker 1: She fine, hold up, I'm tripping. Let me start this

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Speaker 1: over now. After that, when we come back, i'm gonna

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Speaker 1: show you what this whole thing went wrong, and high

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Speaker 1: it's gonna stay wrong. Okay, okay, all right, sounds good.

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Speaker 1: All right, Steve, hang on. Part two of your response

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Speaker 1: Today's Strawberry letter. Subject He's never ever pleased. We'll get

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

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Speaker 1: Come on, Steve, Let's recap today's strawberry letter. He's never

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Speaker 1: ever pleased? Well, thirty four year old hair salon owner.

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Speaker 1: Obviously a nice looking woman, attractive will will will put

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Speaker 1: together in terms of ownership. No having her life together

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Speaker 1: and everything ownership. Thirty eight year old dentist upstairs, she

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Speaker 1: has the music up. He comes down to complain to

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Speaker 1: the music too lous. She tells him to relax chavs.

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Speaker 1: He turns her music down. He felt bad about it.

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Speaker 1: After assessing her song how fine she was. He bought

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Speaker 1: his ass back down there and said, hey, can I

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Speaker 1: get a do over? My bad? I came down here wrung.

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Speaker 1: I ain't know he used own her, my bad? I

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Speaker 1: thought it was the other girl. Yeah, And so anyway

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Speaker 1: he came back and so he told me he was

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Speaker 1: very accomplished and listed all the things he owned, and

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Speaker 1: said he is single because he knows what he likes

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Speaker 1: and he won't settle for lesson. No, no, no, no, no no, Doc,

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Speaker 1: you're a thirty eight year old dentist. You're single because

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Speaker 1: there's something wrong with you. You're single because you ain't

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Speaker 1: found nobody to tolerate you yet. Do you know how

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Speaker 1: many good women is looking for good men out here? You?

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Speaker 1: And it ain't hard to find a good woman man.

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Speaker 1: It's a bunch of them, and once they leave that

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Speaker 1: baggage at at the back door, they can be real good.

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Speaker 1: But now here you come because you say you single,

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Speaker 1: because he knows what he likes and he won't settle

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Speaker 1: for less. This is a setup move. Lady. You were

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Speaker 1: intrigued and you asked him go see a movie with you.

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Speaker 1: He was displeased with the theater. He said the popcorn

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Speaker 1: was burnt. Okay, so he's a whiner and complainer. I

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Speaker 1: wore a sun dress and sneakers, and he said he

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Speaker 1: prefers to women where they toes out. I understand that

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Speaker 1: I'm there way too though you got on a sun dress.

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Speaker 1: I think you should have them toes out. I agree

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Speaker 1: with that one hundred percent, but I'm not gonna tell

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Speaker 1: that to a woman on the first date. We're gonna

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Speaker 1: work on round to that. But right now I don't

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Speaker 1: have a right to tell you what I want because

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Speaker 1: you don't belong to me and I don't belong to you.

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Speaker 1: So I can't tell this woman nothing. I got to

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Speaker 1: just deal with it. And he picked me up and

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Speaker 1: he commented that you live in a transitioning neighborhood, which

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Speaker 1: to me meant that I live in together. Well, a

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Speaker 1: transitioning neighborhood. You know what that is, and so you

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Speaker 1: read it right. But that's where you live. So so

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Speaker 1: a lot of diamonds in the ruck. I told him

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Speaker 1: I would let his comment slide so we would not argue.

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Speaker 1: We still hang out, and he's always complaining. I just

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Speaker 1: told you he was a complainer. He tells me what

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Speaker 1: I should do with my hair or what I should

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Speaker 1: wear when we're hanging out. See, you're not telling us

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Speaker 1: that you all have already had sex. See this departure.

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Speaker 1: You're not telling us, Lady. You keep saying when we

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Speaker 1: hanging out, but you're actually seeing him. And obviously he's

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Speaker 1: a controlling guy, and he likes to implement what he

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Speaker 1: wanted at all times. It regardless us to what you want.

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Speaker 1: But the most irritating thing about him is the sex.

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Speaker 1: Here we go, now we find out this hanging out

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Speaker 1: is sex. Don't get me wrong, he's really good in bed.

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Speaker 1: But he told me that I fall short and pleasing

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Speaker 1: him the way he's used to getting pleased. Yeah, and

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Speaker 1: let me tell you something. This ain't the first time

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Speaker 1: he'd said this. This is why he's single, because everybody

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Speaker 1: got to please him. I do my best. Okay, okay, okay,

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Speaker 1: so you didn't been on debait. His whole thing you

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Speaker 1: remember up top, he says, because I know what I

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Speaker 1: like and I won't settle for less that intrigued. You

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Speaker 1: see what I mean? So now what a woman started

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Speaker 1: doing is trying to prove that. Like when a man

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Speaker 1: meets you and he tells you why he broke up

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Speaker 1: with his ex, he's trying to get that from you.

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Speaker 1: She didn't do nothing for me, She didn't take care

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Speaker 1: of me, she didn't love me the way I need it.

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Speaker 1: Now here you go, Well, I'm gonna love you the

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Speaker 1: way you need to. It's a setup move so he

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Speaker 1: can keep getting what he wants. But you haven't told

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Speaker 1: us anything about what he's doing for you. Right, he's

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Speaker 1: done nothing for you. You just keep trying to prove

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Speaker 1: yourself as someone to be someone he likes and that

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Speaker 1: he don't have to settle no more. I do my best,

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Speaker 1: but he critiques every sexual encounter and he tells me

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Speaker 1: what I need to work on. I've never been told

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Speaker 1: that I can't please a man. I love a challenge. Oh,

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Speaker 1: now here you go. Now you've fin to prove him wrong.

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Speaker 1: So now you find the sex? Are or now you

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Speaker 1: up in here doing some stuff? You really? You? You

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Speaker 1: you above and beyond. But I feel like this is

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Speaker 1: to please him? All right, let's answer this flot. No,

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Speaker 1: you will not be able to please him ever, because

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Speaker 1: you know why, because he's a manipulator, and men who

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Speaker 1: are manipulators do things is to manipulate. So, simply put,

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Speaker 1: he always has you trying to prove yourself to him,

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Speaker 1: when he, in turn, does nothing to prove himself to you.

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Speaker 1: He's selfish, he's controlling, he's self centered, he's overbearing, he's arrogant.

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Speaker 1: All his accomplishments, and where you live and all this here, y'all,

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Speaker 1: he on top of your stove, y'all in the same

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Speaker 1: damn strip mall. If you make it all that money

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Speaker 1: while your ass, y'all stands at the strip mall, you

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Speaker 1: ain't even stole front. All right? Thank you at Steve

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Speaker 1: Letter podcast on demand, Why you at a strip Mall?

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Speaker 1: Why your ass ain't in a medical bill? Coming up

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Speaker 1: at forty six minutes after the hour at Sports Talk

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Speaker 1: with Junior. Right after this, you're listening to the Day

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