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Speaker 1: Right now, it is time for the Strawberry Letter. If

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Speaker 1: you need advice on relationships, on dating, work, sex, parenting,

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Speaker 1: and more, submit year letter to Steve HARVEYFM dot com

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Speaker 1: and click submit Strawberry Letter. We're ready, nephew, buckle up

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Speaker 1: and hold on tight. We got it tell you hib

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Speaker 1: it is the Strawberry Letter. Subject. I'm in love but

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Speaker 1: not with my husband. Dear Stephen Shirley. I am a

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Speaker 1: thirty year old mother of two and I've been married

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Speaker 1: since I was eighteen. Well recently, I met a man

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Speaker 1: online and initiated a conversation with him about sports since

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Speaker 1: we liked the same teams. I was completely attracted to

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Speaker 1: him when I saw him online, and we decided we

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Speaker 1: out as friends and we talked to each other and

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Speaker 1: for him and it grew into us hugging and kissing

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Speaker 1: whenever we were together. Here's the catch. He is all

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Speaker 1: four kids. He says he is in love with his wife,

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Speaker 1: yet he still finds time to talk to me and

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Speaker 1: see me whenever he posts pictures on social media of

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Speaker 1: him and his wife. I get jealous. I see how

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Speaker 1: him alone, but it never lasts for long because I

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Speaker 1: like him so much. In case you're wondering, I cannot

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Speaker 1: stand my husband, but I've been with him my whole life,

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Speaker 1: and our marriage is comfortable. Besides, I have my kids

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Speaker 1: to consider. I know what I'm doing is wrong, but

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Speaker 1: now I am head over heels in love with this man,

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Speaker 1: and he knows and want to let me go, but

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Speaker 1: he's not leaving his wife. What should we do? Well,

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Speaker 1: I don't know what we should do, but I definitely

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Speaker 1: know what you should do. Okay, Listen, this is a

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Speaker 1: go nowhere, hopeless, hot mess of a situation, and you

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Speaker 1: know that needs to end right now today, but it

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Speaker 1: probably won't because you are head over heels in love

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Speaker 1: with this man, as you say, and he has already

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Speaker 1: told you he's not leaving his wife. So you know

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Speaker 1: you're in somewhat of a quandary here because you say

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Speaker 1: you love him. I say that if you're unhappy in

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Speaker 1: your marriage, get some therapy, get some marriage counseling, talk

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Speaker 1: to your husband. Maybe you guys could try different things,

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Speaker 1: get a separation, do something else, But don't just sit

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Speaker 1: there and wallow an unhappiness while seeing someone else on

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Speaker 1: the side, you know, behind your husband's back and him

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Speaker 1: behind his wife's back. That doesn't help anything. I know

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Speaker 1: you want to what, nephew, are you squirming in your

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Speaker 1: seat though? All over it? Jeez? Anyway? Yeah, he's not leaving,

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Speaker 1: so what are you? Guys? You just destined to sneak

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Speaker 1: around and see each other that way? Is that what

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Speaker 1: you really want? You say you want to stay married

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Speaker 1: to your husband for your kids. I mean that's good,

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Speaker 1: and that's noble and everything, but you gotta have some

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Speaker 1: happiness in this situation too. And if you're not happy,

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Speaker 1: if your marriage is not making you happy, you gotta

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Speaker 1: do something about that. First of all, I say, good,

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Speaker 1: some counseling, all right, there you go, Steve, Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's nice, and get yourself some counseling. Oh that ain't

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Speaker 1: worth it. Dawn can tell you that right now. We're

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Speaker 1: gonna skip over that. This letter. Don't say it's nothing

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Speaker 1: about no damn counselor this thirty year old mother. Here's

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Speaker 1: the subject. I'm in love but not with my husband

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Speaker 1: now that's the only time might hear you say the

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Speaker 1: word love in this letter. I guy must point this out.

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Speaker 1: Thirty year old mother too be marriage since you're eighteen,

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Speaker 1: probably dated the boy sence before that, you've never had

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Speaker 1: any other relationship. You know, met this man online, y'all

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Speaker 1: Once you met him, y'all started out of friends, and

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Speaker 1: you talk to each other and saw each other daily.

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Speaker 1: Now you got to go out your way to meet

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Speaker 1: somebody daily. This ain't a co worker. Hello, This just

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Speaker 1: a dude offline. So y'all got to hook up. That

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Speaker 1: takes time. So you're y'all making ways to go see

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Speaker 1: sports talk. See that older that ald We like the

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Speaker 1: same team? Hello? How much liking the same team gonna

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Speaker 1: get you? Every day? Y'all just up talking about this

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Speaker 1: he looking at yall lips. You're looking at his lips,

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Speaker 1: y'all putting your tongue in each other mouth. Wow, your

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Speaker 1: damn right. Every day, se Now I'm talking about the team.

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Speaker 1: Nobody talk about her team every damn day. The Browns

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Speaker 1: is much healthy. Need damn talking about the damn team

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Speaker 1: every day. Here's the catch. He is also married to

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Speaker 1: says he's in love with his wife, yet he still

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Speaker 1: find time to talk to me and see me. Okay,

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Speaker 1: listen to me. Now read your lying back to yourself.

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Speaker 1: He says he's in love with his wife, yet he

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Speaker 1: I'll explain that to you in a minute. Whenever he

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Speaker 1: I get jealous. That's his wife to your jealous fault.

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Speaker 1: but it never lasts for because I like him so much.

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Speaker 1: The first of all, if you think that I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: sit up here and believe all y'all doing is hugging

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Speaker 1: and kissing. You're wrong about that. You're leaving stuff out

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Speaker 1: this leaf every day, just hugging and kissing every day.

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Speaker 1: And the subject I'm in love but not with my husband, Well,

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Speaker 1: what are you doing to make you be in love?

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Speaker 1: Because the show ain't talking about sports? Lebron, Lebron. Most

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Speaker 1: people been in love with me. I'm just trying to

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Speaker 1: say it's because of what I do home. It ain't

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Speaker 1: the Brown, it ain't the cal Yeah, it ain't Houston.

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Speaker 1: All right, listen, h Yeah, we'll be back at twenty

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Speaker 1: three after you're listening. All right, guys. Uh, here we

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Speaker 1: go with Steve Part two spots and it's thirty old mother.

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Speaker 1: And that's why I meant this dude don't live, So

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Speaker 1: I didn't start feeling something for the dude. They meeting

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Speaker 1: every day now, hugging and kissing every day, hugging and kissing.

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Speaker 1: He married, got folk kids, she married, got two kids.

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Speaker 1: He says he in love with his wife, yet he

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Speaker 1: see me. But I've been understand something about men. Men

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Speaker 1: can be in love with somebody else and find time

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Speaker 1: to see and talk to you. Yeah, but no this now,

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Speaker 1: he ain't in love with you. He's not gonna leave

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Speaker 1: liked him so much because of what he do. It

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Speaker 1: ain't just a hugging. In case you wonder I cannot

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Speaker 1: because you're over here talking sports with this man and

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Speaker 1: tackle him? Fell all over him, rolling over and everything

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Speaker 1: talking sports now, That's why we were just sports talking

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Speaker 1: throw it. Indeed, you better throw that thing to me.

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Speaker 1: Go long, just go long. We just talking sports now,

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Speaker 1: But go long? Who you need to get a pity flame?

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Speaker 1: Illegal use of hands? Hear this? I can't believe we

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Speaker 1: fell in love like this. We was just talking sports

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Speaker 1: talking been here man holding here my turn. Let me

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Speaker 1: kick the ball. You like wide receiver, you got soft hand?

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Speaker 1: Who's the tight end? All right, Shirley, you know yeah,

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Speaker 1: we're sports talk right now, sitting up in here. Oh

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Speaker 1: you rough in the past. Better quit doing that to me,

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Speaker 1: show better quit doing that to you. Well, so now

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Speaker 1: and our marriage is comfortable. Besides, you got kids. Consider

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Speaker 1: Now here's the key to the whole thing, and this

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Speaker 1: one I'm gonna started helping Tommy out. I know what

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Speaker 1: I'm doing is wrong, but now I'm head over heels

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Speaker 1: in love with this new man. He doesn't want to

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Speaker 1: let me go, but he's not leaving my wife. What

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Speaker 1: doing what he gonna do. He ain't got no other plans.

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Speaker 1: You is the other plan. See, the man is doing

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Speaker 1: what he do. Now, since both of you all are married,

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Speaker 1: and both of you all are in a consensual relationship,

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell you something that a young man told me.

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Speaker 1: I never understood this, but he used to use this

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Speaker 1: all the time. The saying is fair exchange. Ain't no

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Speaker 1: rob see you man, I'm man. You got kids, I

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Speaker 1: gonna know where I ain't gonna But we're getting together

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Speaker 1: to come a problem and solve a problem that we

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Speaker 1: both have. A we go now? Is that right? One

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Speaker 1: hundred percent? No? It is? It is one hundred percent

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Speaker 1: morally dead wrong. But ain't we all senter, yes, saved?

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Speaker 1: Ain't we all come short or the mark? Yes? Ain't

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Speaker 1: we come on now? Went from coming millilite a shot

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Speaker 1: or the glory of God? Ain't we guilty over life's

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Speaker 1: less for pleasures? Yes? We are? Who in here ain't

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Speaker 1: been tempted? Who in here I ain't wanted somebody that

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Speaker 1: was over there with him? Who here ain't had something

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Speaker 1: visit for a while. Ain't said something inappropriate to a

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Speaker 1: want to know who among you ain't took the time

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Speaker 1: to say, looking hill or what you think? How you're

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Speaker 1: wanted making mine? Give me some I like it? Like

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Speaker 1: that touched me again? Who baby as I oh right there,

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Speaker 1: come on naw and you come back over. Who in

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Speaker 1: here ain't said this? All right? You're listening to the

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Speaker 1: Stave Harvey Morning Show.