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Speaker 1: Time now for today's Strawberry Letter, and if you need

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Speaker 1: right here, right now. That's for your cha. When you're here,

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Speaker 1: you here. It is the Strawberry Letter, all right. Subject

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Speaker 1: he wants women on the side. Dear Stephen Shirley, I'm

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Speaker 1: a twenty eight year old professional woman living with my

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Speaker 1: thirty three year old boyfriend. We've been dating for almost

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Speaker 1: two years and we've had a lot of ups and

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Speaker 1: downs because he doesn't have a lot of respect for women.

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Speaker 1: He thinks women are loyal, They aren't loyal, and women

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Speaker 1: only date men with money and trade up if a

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Speaker 1: flash here richer guy comes along. We've broken up a

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Speaker 1: few times over his insecurity, and each time he begs

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Speaker 1: me back. I am doing age appropriate stuff on social media,

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Speaker 1: like posting a selfie when my makeup is perfect or

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Speaker 1: a pick from brunch if I go out with my girlfriends.

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Speaker 1: He doesn't like it when men comment on my beauty

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Speaker 1: or my booty. I have curves and i can't hide

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Speaker 1: them in my clothes, and I'm not trying to. Whenever

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Speaker 1: he gets upset with me, he goes out with other

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Speaker 1: females and he tells me about it afterwards by saying

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Speaker 1: they're just nice women he's met on social media and

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Speaker 1: it's harmless. At first, I thought it was a joke

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Speaker 1: and he was just trying to make me jealous. But

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Speaker 1: I read his DMS and the comments weren't. We're telling

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Speaker 1: him thanks for a great date, and they were looking

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Speaker 1: forward to seeing him again. I asked him if he

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Speaker 1: was crazy, and I demanded that he stopped entertaining other women.

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Speaker 1: He said, it's insurance in case one of the handsome

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Speaker 1: men on Instagram gets my attention and takes me from him.

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Speaker 1: This is all very childish to me, and I've put

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Speaker 1: too much sweat and tears into this relationship to have

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Speaker 1: it end over something so stupid. I would never flirt

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Speaker 1: with or go out with another mail that I met

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Speaker 1: on social media, especially while I'm dating him. How can

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Speaker 1: I get him to stop disrespecting our relationships, well it

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Speaker 1: doesn't look like you can. And him dating other women

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Speaker 1: and telling you it's insurance in case a handsome man

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Speaker 1: it's cheating. It's just cheating. That's what it is. I mean,

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Speaker 1: plain and simple. It's total disrespect for you. And it

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Speaker 1: begs the question why are you with this fool? Why

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Speaker 1: we don't care that he thinks women are disloyal or

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Speaker 1: So what we don't care anything about that. That's his stupid, insecure,

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Speaker 1: controlling opinion, and please don't buy into it any longer.

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Speaker 1: Stop it. You got to stop it now. He's using it.

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Speaker 1: He's playing you to get what he wants, and that's

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Speaker 1: women on the side. Like you titled your letter, you know,

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Speaker 1: tell him the jig is up. You know what's up,

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Speaker 1: you know what he's trying to do. He can't trick

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Speaker 1: you anymore. You're tired of it. You've been with him

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Speaker 1: for two years. This has got to stop and you're

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Speaker 1: moving on if he doesn't change his ways, and it

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Speaker 1: doesn't look like he is. I mean, this is the

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Speaker 1: dumbest thing ever insurance. That's a new one and really

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Speaker 1: really stupid Steve. This this letter right here, it's ridiculous. Yeah, now,

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Speaker 1: young lady, you're twenty eight years old. So uncle Steve,

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Speaker 1: you're gonna help you out here. So here's a deal.

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Speaker 1: This is the deal. I'm not gonna play with you.

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Speaker 1: This ain't funny. I'm gonna show you how this game

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Speaker 1: working that he got going right here. You've been dating

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Speaker 1: this dude. He thirty three, you're twenty eight, and you

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Speaker 1: live with him. Yeah, it ain't like y'all say, y'all

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Speaker 1: of respect for women. Red flag. If he don't have

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Speaker 1: respect from women, does that not include you? I think

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Speaker 1: it does. Let me show you why he thinks women

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Speaker 1: Let me explain something to your sister. This is game.

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Speaker 1: What he's done is he has prepared. He has prepared

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Speaker 1: This is just designed for you all right, y'all and

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Speaker 1: broke up. You get back. You do social media stuff,

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Speaker 1: You post selfies, your makeup is perfect, You get dressed

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Speaker 1: going to girlfriend brunch. All that's cool. He doesn't like

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Speaker 1: You got courage, You can't hire to me clothes. You

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Speaker 1: ain't trying to now here with it. When he get upset,

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Speaker 1: on social media and harmless. What he that's the trade off.

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Speaker 1: You posted picture, I'm gonna go out with another girl.

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Speaker 1: Wa You go to brunch with your girlfriends and somebody

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Speaker 1: comment on your picture I'm taking another girl out. That's

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Speaker 1: the trade off. That don't seem a bit extreme to you?

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Speaker 1: Are you kidding me? Little girl? Listen to me. Don't

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Speaker 1: be stupid. Don't be stupid. You getting played and he's

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Speaker 1: telling you. Why does he tell you he does this.

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Speaker 1: He's telling you this so he can see how much

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Speaker 1: he can get away with it, and so far he's

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Speaker 1: getting away with it, all, all of it. Then you

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Speaker 1: said at first I thought it was a joking. He

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Speaker 1: was just trying to make me jealous. A joke the

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Speaker 1: man something was this funny to you. Huh, this joke

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Speaker 1: that you thought was a joke, was just trying to

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Speaker 1: make you jealous. What that's what you came with. You're

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Speaker 1: giving him way too much rope. And you know what

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Speaker 1: he's doing with this rope. He hanging you with him.

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Speaker 1: He ain't hanging his self system. He hanging you with him. Now,

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Speaker 1: when I come back, I'm gonna tell you the rest

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Speaker 1: of it. I ain't got no jokes for you. I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna help you out because if it's another woman out

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Speaker 1: there in this position right here, don't be stupid. Now

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Speaker 1: you're professional, you got it going on. Don't be stupid,

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Speaker 1: Steve suhen we come back. All right, hold that thought, 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 the hour's subject he wants women

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Speaker 1: on the side. We'll get back into it right after this.

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Speaker 1: You're listening to Steve Harvey Morning Show. All right, come on, Steve,

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Speaker 1: let's recap today Strawberry letter. This subject he wants women

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Speaker 1: on the side. Why this twenty eight year old professional

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Speaker 1: woman living with his thirty three year old food. This

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Speaker 1: old ignorant ass doing y'all has some ups and down.

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Speaker 1: He don't have a lot of respectful women, which means

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Speaker 1: he don't have respect for you because you are old woman.

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Speaker 1: He thinks that women aren't loyal and women only date

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Speaker 1: men with money and trade up if a flashy, richer

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Speaker 1: guy comes along. Once again, I'm gonna tell you what

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Speaker 1: this is. This is game. This is a prepared positioned

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Speaker 1: statement that he has created just for you to justify

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Speaker 1: his actions, because he's not even to stop doing nothing

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Speaker 1: he's doing. So when you post stuff on social media

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Speaker 1: age appropriate selfish, you make up his right you're dressed

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Speaker 1: When you go out with your girlfriend, he don't like

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Speaker 1: it with men comment on the pictures. So now whenever

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Speaker 1: he gets upset with you, he go out with other

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Speaker 1: just women he met on social media. So wait a minute.

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Speaker 1: So when you post a picture of yourself on social

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Speaker 1: media and he see a man commenting his comeback to that,

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Speaker 1: His rebuttal is I'm taking a woman out with me.

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Speaker 1: That don't seem extreme to you, that don't seem like

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Speaker 1: a real that's not a that's not an exchange. So

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Speaker 1: now you are living with a man who goes out

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Speaker 1: with other women while living in y'all shared space, and

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Speaker 1: he tells you he just made nice women and social media,

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Speaker 1: so he's just trying to find out how much you

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Speaker 1: can take. Okay, I thought it was a joke and

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Speaker 1: he was just trying to make me jealous once again.

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Speaker 1: Was this joke funny? Because it's not funny. Are you laughing?

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Speaker 1: Because we now so. Then you read this MS and

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Speaker 1: the comments were telling him thanks for a great date

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Speaker 1: and they were looking forward to seeing him again. I

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Speaker 1: asked him if he was crazy, and I demanded that

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Speaker 1: he just stopped entertaining other women. You twenty eight, why

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Speaker 1: are you dealing with this? Why are you dealing with

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Speaker 1: a man so disrespectful that while you are living together

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Speaker 1: in the house, he's dating other women. What he said

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Speaker 1: this insurance in case one of the handsome men on

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Speaker 1: Instagram getting my attention to take me from it. This

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Speaker 1: is all childish to me, and I put, now, here's

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Speaker 1: the product want you to pay attention to? I put

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Speaker 1: too much sweat and tears into this relationship to have

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Speaker 1: it in over something so stupid. No, listen to me, sister.

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Speaker 1: You put too much into this relationship to have it in.

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Speaker 1: What relationship are you saving? This is a bad relationship.

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Speaker 1: You live with a guy that do what he wants

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Speaker 1: to and he ain't trying to apologize for it. So

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Speaker 1: you know what you've done. You've just made a bad investment,

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Speaker 1: that's all. It's just been two years, that's all it is.

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Speaker 1: Don't worry about the blood, sweat and tears, because if

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Speaker 1: you continue, you're gonna get two more years of this

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Speaker 1: right here, because there's no sign of remorse in this

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Speaker 1: letter for him. This, how he is, This what he

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Speaker 1: has enough prepared statements to make you feel like you

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Speaker 1: are the gold money. Now. You said I would never

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Speaker 1: flutter go out with another male I met on social media,

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Speaker 1: especially while I'm dating him. Well, he don't feel that way.

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Speaker 1: He don't feel that way at all, because he dating you,

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Speaker 1: and he going out with whoever he want to and

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Speaker 1: they're all in his DM. How can I get him

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Speaker 1: to stop disrespecting our relationship. You're wasting your damn time.

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Speaker 1: The question is how can I get him to stop

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Speaker 1: disrespecting our relationship? The question is why are you in

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Speaker 1: a disrespectful relationship. You ain't got to get him to

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Speaker 1: stop disrespecting relationship. You need to get out of the relationship.

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Speaker 1: He's not disrespecting relationship. He disrespecting you. You told him

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Speaker 1: at the top of the letter. He doesn't respect women.

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Speaker 1: You are a woman. He don't respect you. He's not

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Speaker 1: disrespecting relationship. He's disrespecting you. He's not a good guy.

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Speaker 1: He's not for you. I'm not gonna help you save

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Speaker 1: a disrespectful relationship. Young lady, you're twenty eight. You obviously

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Speaker 1: got it going on. You're intelligent, you're working, you do

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Speaker 1: age appropriate stuff. And he's thirty three. And here, jiggolo,

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Speaker 1: you live with a man who dates other women while

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Speaker 1: y'all live together and in a relationship. And he's not

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Speaker 1: said he's stopping because you know what those women are insurance?

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Speaker 1: The insurance. Oh that's so dumb. How do you let

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Speaker 1: a man tell you that that these other women are insurance? Right? Well,

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Speaker 1: you know what you need to do. You need cash.

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Speaker 1: You in the policy. You need to get all the

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Speaker 1: cash out of this policy because I'm gone get your stuff.

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Speaker 1: Because you can do this by yourself, you can start,

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Speaker 1: you can get somebody even to do this here. That's deep.

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Speaker 1: Go out with a woman and then tell you he

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Speaker 1: go out with a whatness. It's so differant, bravest hand. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: he ain't got anough sense to lie. Tommy all right, Steve,

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