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Speaker 1: his ex wife won't let me visit him here Stephen Shirley,

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Speaker 1: my boyfriend and I've been dating for about five months

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Speaker 1: and he's the best man I've ever been with, and

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Speaker 1: he treats me really good. There's a situation that I'm

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Speaker 1: dealing with and my man doesn't understand why it's bothering me.

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Speaker 1: When we first met, he had just gotten a divorce.

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Speaker 1: I mean it was literally finalized the day before I

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Speaker 1: met him. Because it was a quick divorce, he was

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Speaker 1: still living in the house he shared with his wife.

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Speaker 1: He said they didn't put the house in the divorce

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Speaker 1: settlement because it was his wife's house in her name.

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Speaker 1: I thought within months of getting a divorce he'd move out.

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Speaker 1: We even went to look at apartments and rental houses together.

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Speaker 1: Then he informed me that he decided to stay in

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Speaker 1: let him rent his man cave area of the house.

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Speaker 1: He said. The room is on the second floor and

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Speaker 1: it's got a bathroom attached to it and a wet

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Speaker 1: the common areas they have to share, and he assured

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Speaker 1: me that he had it all worked out. This has

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Speaker 1: not allowed to visit him or even step foot on

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Speaker 1: this woman's property. I popped over there last week to

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Speaker 1: how crazy this is. I'm getting the vibe that he's

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Speaker 1: a sorry but mane it right, that's what she said.

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Speaker 1: What is really going on here? Please help you know what,

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Speaker 1: I don't like this situation at all for you, because

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Speaker 1: this arrangement is just really stupid. I mean, what are

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Speaker 1: you getting out of this? You're you're getting nothing but

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Speaker 1: stress and misery and unhappiness. This so called best guy

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Speaker 1: that you've ever had is living with his ex wife

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Speaker 1: and paying her rent to live there. As much time

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Speaker 1: as you say he spends at your place, Why don't

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Speaker 1: you charge him rent? You should be charging him rent.

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Speaker 1: Maybe that will help him to understand that it's time

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Speaker 1: to get out of his wife's house and move on

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Speaker 1: with you in his life. That means getting his own place.

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Speaker 1: You said, you guys looked at places, what happened. That

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Speaker 1: means getting his own place where you're invited, where you

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Speaker 1: things like that that couples do. It makes absolutely no

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Speaker 1: sense for him to still be staying there unless unless he's,

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Speaker 1: you know, having trouble letting go. He might be. Remember

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Speaker 1: you said, he treats you really well, so he should

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Speaker 1: have moved out when his wife spoke to you so

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Speaker 1: rudely when you popped up over there, his story behind

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Speaker 1: did nothing. Okay, he's not right for you. I mean,

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Speaker 1: he can barely take care of himself at this point,

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Speaker 1: so you need to do for yourself when he can't

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Speaker 1: do for himself. And let's move on. It's only been

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Speaker 1: five months. You'll be all right. You'll be all right, Steve. Wow,

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Speaker 1: this letter, God, I don't believe it written all over it. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I do not understand why this woman is writing this

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Speaker 1: I got to deal with this before we go to break?

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Speaker 1: All right? So here it does. Now, you first met

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Speaker 1: treat you really good. We first met he had just

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Speaker 1: gotten divorced. I literally finalized the day before I met him. Danger. Danger,

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Speaker 1: We don't open some danger, Jess got out. Now, I

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Speaker 1: know marriages are over long before the data is finalized,

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Speaker 1: so they've probably been going through this. But you did

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Speaker 1: and they didn't put the house in the divorce settlement

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Speaker 1: because it was his wife's house in her name. Well,

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Speaker 1: you can't put it in the divorce settlement because of

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Speaker 1: what he did. Dak brought about the quick divorce. You

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Speaker 1: never mentioned that. And now you ain't getting this house.

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Speaker 1: You got to get out this my damn house. So

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Speaker 1: now that's why that didn't get put in the divorce settlement.

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Speaker 1: I thought after months, I thought, within months of getting

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Speaker 1: just you know, you know, appeasing you. Then he informed

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Speaker 1: his man cave area of the house. He saying, the

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Speaker 1: Now later on and say, and the bedroom is he's

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Speaker 1: accessible is on another floor. What girl, A man cave

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Speaker 1: can't mean nothing much to you if you ain't the

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Speaker 1: king no more. See, a man cave is only good

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Speaker 1: is if you the King, and you got a man cave.

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Speaker 1: But if you ain't the king no more. You ain't

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Speaker 1: got a man cave. You a renter. A matter of fact,

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Speaker 1: you just a B and B. I don't even see

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Speaker 1: how you he ain't got nothing. When we come back,

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna break your heart. I'm gonna break you'll, all right, Steve,

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Speaker 1: hang on, we'll have part two of your responses coming

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Speaker 1: man cave, got a little boy, got a tidy fridge,

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Speaker 1: a little bitty fridge coming up. Steve's response Part two

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Speaker 1: at twenty three minutes after the hour Strawberry Letters. Subject

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Speaker 1: for today his ex wife won't let me visit him.

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Speaker 1: We'll get back into it right after this. You're listening,

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Speaker 1: Steve Harvey Morning Show. All right, Steve, come on, let's

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Speaker 1: recap today's strawberry letter. The subject his ex wife won't

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Speaker 1: let me visit him. This man got a divorce. You

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Speaker 1: met him right after he got the divorce, y'all, the

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Speaker 1: best man you ever met, you save. It was a

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Speaker 1: quick divorce, so they didn't put the house into the

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Speaker 1: divorce settlement because it was his wife's house and then

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Speaker 1: her name, So you thought within months of getting the divorce,

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Speaker 1: he moved out, y'all went apartment looking and everything that

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Speaker 1: was just to appease you. Then he informs you that

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Speaker 1: his man cave area of the house. Now, he said,

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Speaker 1: the room is on the second floor. It's got a

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Speaker 1: full band. It's a half bad sink. Tarlet. I want

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Speaker 1: you to understand this now. They don't put showers and

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Speaker 1: regular houses. They don't. I'm just telling you. He set

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Speaker 1: at all. What in her house she don't go upstairs

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Speaker 1: at all? So you asked him about the common areas

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Speaker 1: that they have to share, and he assumed me, assured

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Speaker 1: me that he has had it all worked out so

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Speaker 1: now he don't even have an area of his own.

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Speaker 1: He got common areas with his ex wife. This has

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Speaker 1: not allowed to visit him or step foot on this

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Speaker 1: woman's property. Now, guess what this crazy woman does. I

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Speaker 1: and his ex wife met me at the door and saying,

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Speaker 1: if I don't like her rules, then you should then

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Speaker 1: I should let him move in with me. First of all,

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Speaker 1: you should have never done that. And what you think

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Speaker 1: come on here in her house that's in her name.

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Speaker 1: That he hadn't already He hadn't told him, She hadn't

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Speaker 1: told him. He ain't the king no more. This ain't

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Speaker 1: a man cave. This a room. I'm gonna give you

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Speaker 1: access to a bed room that's upstairs, and you're gonna

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Speaker 1: pay me money. And then told you if you don't

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Speaker 1: like the rules, in order to let him move with me,

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Speaker 1: I left called and cuts him out? What you cuts

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Speaker 1: him out for? He told you ass couldn't come over there.

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Speaker 1: He said don't come over here. This half for crazy.

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Speaker 1: This her house, she making all the rules. He doesn't

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Speaker 1: tell you what's really going on? She say, what's really

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Speaker 1: gonna tell you what's really going on. Number one, he

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Speaker 1: divorce is not gonna live in a subservient position like

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Speaker 1: this with all these rules. He can't have a company, right, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you can't date, and you don't bought your ass over

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Speaker 1: You don't. Damn it got cussed out. So now let's

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Speaker 1: Right now, your ass back in your man cave, just

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Speaker 1: your space is the man cave. Next one, it's her house,

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Speaker 1: it's in her name. Here's the next one. She makes

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Speaker 1: all the rules. Here's the next one. She told you

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Speaker 1: Listen to me, A man cave can't mean that much

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Speaker 1: The kids come in, nothing that's yours. You can do

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Speaker 1: You know why because now he written that. So you

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Speaker 1: see he has nothing and he ain't got no money,

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Speaker 1: because why would I rent this space that I can't

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Speaker 1: because he lost it in the divorce. She ain't just

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Speaker 1: You get the feeling here, sorry, ass man, she do too.

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Speaker 1: That's why he got the damn man came and he

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Speaker 1: and he can't have no company like he's sixteen, all right, Steve,

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Speaker 1: post your comments on Today's Strawberry Letter and Steve Harvey

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Speaker 1: after Sports Tea to ask him if y'all still go together.

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Speaker 1: Right after this, you're listening to the Steve Harvey Morning

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