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Speaker 1: Thank you, that's you all right, Here we go. Subject.

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Speaker 1: I'm selfish and tired of sharing. Dear Stephen Shirley. I'm

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Speaker 1: a thirty two year old man and my girlfriend is

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Speaker 1: thirty years old. We've been together almost four years, and

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Speaker 1: at the start of our relationship things were great. I

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Speaker 1: proposed last year, but she told me she needed her

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Speaker 1: My life has turned upside down since I proposed. Right

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Speaker 1: after I ask my girl to marry me, we found

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Speaker 1: out that she's pregnant. Again. She ran to her mom first,

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Speaker 1: and then they came over to tell me about the baby.

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Speaker 1: Her mom became even more controlling, and she insisted that

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Speaker 1: leave her while she's pregnant. My friends think she's abiding

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Speaker 1: by her mother's rules because it's her way of distancing

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Speaker 1: herself from me. I don't get that feeling from her

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Speaker 1: because we talk about her mom's crazy rules all the time.

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Speaker 1: What I don't understand is why she won't stand up

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Speaker 1: kinds of personal questions about my friends, my finances, and

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Speaker 1: my upbringing. I am starting to hate her mother, and

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Speaker 1: it's getting to the point where I see my girlfriend

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Speaker 1: less and less because of her. I want to get married,

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Speaker 1: get a house for my family, and have a good

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Speaker 1: life without her mom's involvement. How can I get my

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Speaker 1: girlfriend from under her mom's spell? I am tired of sharing. Well,

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Speaker 1: you know, on this show we talk about mama's boys

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Speaker 1: a lot, we really do. And we never give mama's

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Speaker 1: for an ultimatum from you. She's got to make a choice.

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Speaker 1: She's got to grow up. She's got to either be

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Speaker 1: say forget leave her mom and all of that. Her

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Speaker 1: mom is gonna always be her mom, but she can't

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Speaker 1: and continually be her mommy's little baby. Yes she is,

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Speaker 1: you know. I mean, this woman is thirty years old

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Speaker 1: and about to have a whole husband and a baby,

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Speaker 1: her own family. She still can't be under her mom's

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Speaker 1: control as your wife. That won't work in a marriage.

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Speaker 1: You got to talk to her. You have to talk

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Speaker 1: to her. You gotta let her know how you feel.

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Speaker 1: You got to tell your plans for the marriage and

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Speaker 1: the family. Plans that include her mom as just the

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Speaker 1: grandmother for now. Okay, thank you, Mom, we got this.

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Speaker 1: But you know she can't be all up in the

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Speaker 1: middle of your relationship giving you the third degree when

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Speaker 1: she feels like it. No, tell her you're the father.

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Speaker 1: You will have a say in your baby's life periods.

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Speaker 1: Then you guys need to decide on a wedding date

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Speaker 1: and set a deadline for her to move out of

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Speaker 1: her mother's house. That house is toxic right now. This

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Speaker 1: is if you still want to future together. You say

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Speaker 1: you can do that, but you gotta talk to her

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Speaker 1: and Mom has to definitely be out of the picture.

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Speaker 1: Jay J J Right, Junior, No, I'm gonna then, Junior, Okay,

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Speaker 1: I'll go all right, here we go. Um, you have

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Speaker 1: what hard possibly you got to come at all but

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Speaker 1: all your mack and all all the mac you got,

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Speaker 1: you got to go. I don't say her name is

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Speaker 1: Glad as miss Glad? Is you showing good in that

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Speaker 1: bath row? Baby? Damn damn girl, girl, you're rocking them slippers.

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Speaker 1: Oh my god, doing something to me? Yeah, and rub

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Speaker 1: when with me some yeah. Yeah, you gotta stamp on

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Speaker 1: your nippole area when you talk. Yeah yeah, yeah yeah.

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Speaker 1: When you put that that head scarf on, that does something.

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Speaker 1: And then you gotta go like them. What is that you?

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Speaker 1: What is that you win? Is that? Is that white diamond? Damn?

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Speaker 1: Love me some white diamond? Yeah? You can't strong and

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Speaker 1: She may have. You may have to put down mama,

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Speaker 1: right you mergic this all. Let'm say yeah, yeah, okay.

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Speaker 1: Want to rub on yourself well on the nipple, on

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Speaker 1: your nipple, thank you? Jay, Come on, Junior, come on,

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Speaker 1: just hang on, hang on, Junior, we'll get to you

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Speaker 1: and the nephew of course. Uh wow, uh Jay, you

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Speaker 1: threw me with that, Miss Glad. It's all right. The

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Speaker 1: subject of the strawberry letter is I'm selfish and tired.

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Speaker 1: Of sharing. We'll be back at twenty three minutes after

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Speaker 1: the hour. We still have to hear from Junior. We

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Speaker 1: still have to hear from the nephew. It's I'm selfish

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Speaker 1: Strawberry letter for today. Right after this, you're listening to

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Speaker 1: the Steve Harvey Morning Show. All right, here we go.

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Speaker 1: We gotta recap today's Strawberry letter. The subject I'm selfish

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Speaker 1: wrote in he and his girlfriend are together. They've been

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Speaker 1: together for four years. She's thirty, he's thirty two. Like

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Speaker 1: I said at the start of the relationship, it was great.

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Speaker 1: He proposed last year finally, and she said before she

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Speaker 1: She didn't get that because her mom was all up

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Speaker 1: in the business. She's asking him all kinds of questions.

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Speaker 1: He said his life has turned upside down since he proposed,

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Speaker 1: because now he found out that the girl is pregnant.

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Speaker 1: Fiance now is pregnant, so her mother told her to

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Speaker 1: move in with her and everything has to be done

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Speaker 1: by midnight. The fiance can't come over there and see her.

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Speaker 1: from under her mom's spell. He wants to raise his baby,

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Speaker 1: he wants to have a good family and a good life,

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Speaker 1: and he's tired of sharing his girlfriend with her mother.

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Speaker 1: what do you say, d I, what's the d d

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Speaker 1: I don't do it, don't do it. Don't marry marry

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Speaker 1: this girl. No, no, do not marry this girl. Don't

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Speaker 1: do it. You can't gonna get that ring back today.

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Speaker 1: That's what you need to do, Folks, don't getting the

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Speaker 1: ring back today. Because this is a preview or what

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Speaker 1: your marriage gonna look like. This is what's gonna happen

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Speaker 1: right after you get married. She's still not gonna be

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Speaker 1: the house. You still gonna have to get that at midnight.

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Speaker 1: You still gonna have to do all this. You still everything.

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Speaker 1: And another thing I know about the mama too. Her

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Speaker 1: mama is struggling with the bills at that house. That's

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Speaker 1: only why you asked somebody thirty to move back in,

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Speaker 1: because you need help with d bills. That's what growing

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Speaker 1: the MoMA. Mommy, help this rent this gas her Mamma, No,

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Speaker 1: don't do this. Man, let this go. I'm just mamas.

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Speaker 1: You heard it from the single guy. Don't do it

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Speaker 1: DDI previous. Oh lord, I'm almost afraid to ask. All right, nephew,

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Speaker 1: what you got subject? I'm selfish and tired of sharing.

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Speaker 1: You know what. He's thirty two, she's thirty. She's a

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Speaker 1: mama's girl. What's going on? Okay? Can I say what

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Speaker 1: I want to say? Yes? Carla? Can I say what

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Speaker 1: I want to say? This is my letter? Go ahead,

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Speaker 1: she's gonna say yes. Do it? Okay, Well, maybe she's

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Speaker 1: Your future mother in law need a back buster. She

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Speaker 1: needs somebody to bust her back out. I'm sorry. You

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Speaker 1: know what, when people are in other people's business, that's

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Speaker 1: because they ain't got no beastiness. That means she needs

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Speaker 1: You need to find somebody to go in there and

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Speaker 1: just well, mama out you need a Mandinko warrior. You

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Speaker 1: need him Tombo on a larger one. You need some

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Speaker 1: mama out because guess what, Guess what? Because guess what?

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Speaker 1: When that's happening, the spell is broken. Mama don't care

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Speaker 1: what the hell y'all doing, because Mama is satisfied. Okay,

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Speaker 1: never tell you something in order to get out, in

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Speaker 1: order to let me let me, how can I put this?

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Speaker 1: Uh if if? In order to you? How can I say?

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Speaker 1: Sometimes you are create. Sometimes you have to create an

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Speaker 1: Then you got to tangle mama up into something else.

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Speaker 1: You got to give mama's backbusted out, because guess what.

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Speaker 1: Once you give mama over there loving with somebody else,

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Speaker 1: guess what. She ain't got time to food with you.

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Speaker 1: She ain't got to worry about this baby. She didn't

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Speaker 1: mama's answer your your your response is kind of like

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Speaker 1: Jay's only you want him to find someone I don't want. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: somebody else to be dealt with another way. We both

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Speaker 1: and consistently. Jay is at least three times a week, Okay,

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Speaker 1: it nobody else business, because when you look up, damn

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Speaker 1: I mean? Three times. When you're getting it, you ain't

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Speaker 1: what I got a grandmother? I don't need to hit that.

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Speaker 1: Wait a minute, man, And your grandmother is so cute, junior?

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Speaker 1: Have you don't have you witness a couple of days?

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Speaker 1: Have you witnessed a couple of days? Junior? Witness coup date?

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Speaker 1: When you ain't here from Grandmama. Yeah, it's been a

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