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Speaker 1: We got it for you here. It is the Strawberry Letter.

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Speaker 1: All right, Thank enough you subject a smother lover. Dear

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Speaker 1: Stephen Shirley. I'm a thirty nine year old woman dating

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Speaker 1: a forty five year old man. We met a year

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Speaker 1: ago and things started off fantastic and moved quickly. He

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Speaker 1: is a very sensitive and emotional man who has no

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Speaker 1: difficulty expressing his every emotion to me. After dating men

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Speaker 1: that play games and aren't serious about settling down with

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Speaker 1: one woman, my boyfriend's openness was refreshing, but now it's

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Speaker 1: proving to be way too much. He has started to

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Speaker 1: complain about me being too busy for him. Since I'm

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Speaker 1: back at work full time now, I got home and

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Speaker 1: need a few minutes to chill and relax, But he's

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Speaker 1: in my driveway every day this week when I get home.

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Speaker 1: He wants to be right up under me every week,

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Speaker 1: right every week night, and keeps telling me that he's

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Speaker 1: afraid we're growing apart. He told me that he loved me.

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Speaker 1: He loved when we were quarantined together because we were inseparable.

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Speaker 1: I liked it too, because we were getting to know

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Speaker 1: each other. Then he started bringing his work clothes to

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Speaker 1: my house and says it's too cold to go home

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Speaker 1: every night and he'd rather cuddle with me. This man

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Speaker 1: loves to cuddle, wine and make love to me whenever

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Speaker 1: we're together. I told him he's smothering me with his

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Speaker 1: actions and smothering me in the bed nightly. I have

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Speaker 1: to roll him off of me. He says he can't

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Speaker 1: sleep unless he's touching some part of my body. Recently,

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Speaker 1: I had a conversation about taking a break or dialing

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Speaker 1: it back a little bit because he couldn't process. But

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Speaker 1: he couldn't process a conversation without crying and telling me

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Speaker 1: that he can't live without me. I love this type

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Speaker 1: of falling too deeply for him because he may have

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Speaker 1: emotional issues. How do I handle this relationship emotional issues?

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Speaker 1: I don't know. Something might be a little off here.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I'm sure get off of me has probably

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Speaker 1: crossed your mind, and you've said it a few times

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Speaker 1: because you know while you're with him, because all the

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Speaker 1: stuff here says you say he's doing it is a

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Speaker 1: little smothering and suffocating if he's in the driveway when

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Speaker 1: you get home and all of that. But you also

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Speaker 1: said that you're moved quickly. Now, these are the type

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Speaker 1: And I think there's definitely something going on with him

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Speaker 1: because he is too much and he has too much

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Speaker 1: time on his hands. Why is he sitting in your

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Speaker 1: driveway before you can even get home from work? Where

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Speaker 1: does he work? I mean? And why is he crying

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Speaker 1: and whining when you tell him that you need to

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Speaker 1: dial it back and take a break. These are the

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Speaker 1: things that attracted you to him before you've been dating

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Speaker 1: for a year, which is a good amount of time.

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Speaker 1: But I think there is something a little off saying

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Speaker 1: he can't live without you, he's not being able to

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Speaker 1: sleep without touching any part of your body and making

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Speaker 1: your body go numb. And this we're not talking numb

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Speaker 1: in a good way from your perspective. And I will

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Speaker 1: say this, Yes, women do like to cuddle. Yes, we

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Speaker 1: do love the affections and attention of a man and

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Speaker 1: all of that. We like to bask in all that glow.

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Speaker 1: But it does sound like he's being a bit too

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Speaker 1: needy and overbearing. So I just say it's time to

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Speaker 1: reassess your relationship and maybe set some new boundaries. Steve,

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Speaker 1: I'm about to do the letter now. I want to

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Speaker 1: fall all all sensitive or caring people. My response is

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Speaker 1: not for you. I would like to put a disclaimer

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Speaker 1: on my response. Again, if you are a sensitive or

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Speaker 1: caring person, my response, you're not going to like. Let's

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Speaker 1: go Stephen Sherley, I'm a thirty nine year old woman

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Speaker 1: up dating a forty five year old man. We met

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Speaker 1: He is a very sensitive and emotional man. Now let's

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Speaker 1: stop right here. He is a very sensitive and emotional man. Ladies,

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Speaker 1: listen to me. That in a man is a dangerous combination.

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Speaker 1: The combination is dangerous. Now you can be one or

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Speaker 1: the other, but you can't be both. You can be

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Speaker 1: but you can't be both because now you are invading

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Speaker 1: get to be either one of those? If you have

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Speaker 1: a man that's emotional and sensitive, that's a dangerous combination.

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Speaker 1: And the letter will start telling it immediately. Who has

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Speaker 1: no difficulty expressing every emotion to me? Who do that?

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Speaker 1: And after dating me in the play games and ain't

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Speaker 1: serious about settling down with one woman? My boyfriend's openness

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Speaker 1: was refreshing. I bet it was at first, but soon

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Speaker 1: as she say that in the letter, but now it's

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Speaker 1: proving to be way too much. Why because, Shirley, it's

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Speaker 1: a dangerous combination. You can't have a man that's sensitive

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Speaker 1: and emotional. It's too much, because even a woman don't

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Speaker 1: want that in a man. Oh he's so sensitive, Oh

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Speaker 1: he's emotional. He about to drive my ass crazy. You'll

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Speaker 1: see we come back. I got it all right. Coming up,

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Speaker 1: we'll have part two of Steve's response to twenty three

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Speaker 1: minutes after the hour strawberry letters. Subject for today's mother

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

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Speaker 1: all right, Come on, Steve, let's recap today's strawberry letter.

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Speaker 1: The subject's mother lover. All right. The thirty nine year

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Speaker 1: old woman is dating a man who's forty five. He's

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Speaker 1: very sensitive and emotional. Now, I said on the break before,

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Speaker 1: that's a dangerous combination. Ladies. A man can be one

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Speaker 1: or the other, but he cannot be both. Surely asked

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Speaker 1: me why. I said, because it invades on a woman's

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Speaker 1: space to be either. Because a woman can't. When does

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Speaker 1: He said, her openness was refreshing at first, but now

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Speaker 1: it's gotten to beat the way too much. See, So

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Speaker 1: now let's get into the letter. He started could complain

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Speaker 1: work full time. I get home and I need a

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Speaker 1: Oh lord, he in the driveway. I'm talking. As soon

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Speaker 1: as you get home, you can't chill you can't have

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Speaker 1: your own at you want to decompress. You've been at work,

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Speaker 1: so now he's stalking and he sprung. He wants to

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Speaker 1: me he's afraid we're growing apart. That's another word. When

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Speaker 1: your man tells you he's afraid what woman wants a

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Speaker 1: scary ass man. I'm afraid what he told me. He

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Speaker 1: loved me when we were quarantined together because we were inseparable. Well,

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Speaker 1: everybody was quarantine. Quarantine was very revealing though. You either

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Speaker 1: the person. But then there's also a middle ground. A

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Speaker 1: lot of people said, well, be nice to get back

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Speaker 1: to work, so we can just separate from each other

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Speaker 1: at least grow to miss each other. But I still

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Speaker 1: love him and like him. I just don't like him

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Speaker 1: as much all the time. You don't got tired of

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Speaker 1: his ass. He didn't started bringing work clothes in your

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Speaker 1: every night, and he rather cuddle with me. This is

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Speaker 1: another dangerous statement. You got a man that loves to cuddle. Now, ladies,

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Speaker 1: I know you think cuddling is cute, but not all

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Speaker 1: the time. And watch why watch this man loves to cuddle,

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Speaker 1: whine and make love to me whenever we together. This

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Speaker 1: is another scary ass combination. He liked to cuddle wine

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Speaker 1: and make love. What's making this this? Okay? So let

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Speaker 1: never done that, so it's gonna take me a minute.

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Speaker 1: He likes to cuddle wine and make love. All right,

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Speaker 1: here we go? All right, now we now we love it.

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Speaker 1: We're in the actual act of love it. And in

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Speaker 1: that act you hear it is? Now you you want

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Speaker 1: him to handle his business. But what is your ass

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Speaker 1: crying fault? What is the wine? Now? We through making

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Speaker 1: love and we threw wining. Now he coloring, But now

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Speaker 1: you gotta come down off that crime. Right so now

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Speaker 1: you're coloring? Then you hit this hill? Okay, what is happening?

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Speaker 1: We are you? Okay? Well I'm coming down off the

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Speaker 1: whineing and I'm breathing home because I was we was

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Speaker 1: I'm going with this? Hire love? And then he literally

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Speaker 1: he used to either suck his thumb. He had a

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Speaker 1: that got burned up in his mama's house fire back

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Speaker 1: in ninety four. All that got burned up, the blanket,

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Speaker 1: the teddy bell, and the pacified. All that got burned

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Speaker 1: Now you it you the teddy bell, the blanket, and

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Speaker 1: while you start, Tony, he started crying because he emotional assensitive.

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Speaker 1: And then he told you he can't live without you. Well,

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Speaker 1: let's see see, once you tell me what you can't do,

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Speaker 1: prove it, because you're finding live without me. Now I

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Speaker 1: I love this type of attention and all the affection,

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Speaker 1: he may have emotional issues. May have girl may have

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Speaker 1: emotional issues. Your ass is dating an Tony o'brown. Wonder

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Speaker 1: his ass have emotional issues? Don't You're dating and Tony o'brown.

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