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Speaker 1: We gotta get to the letter, all right, Buckle up,

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Speaker 1: hold on tight, we got it for you. It is Strawberry.

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Speaker 1: Let him subject trapped in a marriage, Dear Steve. I've

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Speaker 1: been married twenty plus years and have two almost adult kids.

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Speaker 1: I've been faithful, devoted, trying to hold things together for

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Speaker 1: my family. I didn't want them to have to live

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Speaker 1: a lifestyle I would have had to give them had

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Speaker 1: I left my husband. Now I'm at a point in

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Speaker 1: my life where to just look at my husband can

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Speaker 1: turn my stomach. Never having been very compatible, I do

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Speaker 1: the best I could, and I'm sure he feels the same.

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Speaker 1: Lots of sacrifices on my part, living with his family,

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Speaker 1: they passed, now taking care of him because he has

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Speaker 1: developed a debilitating illness and will never work again, and

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Speaker 1: hasn't in the last ten years. I've met a man,

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Speaker 1: not intentionally, not with any forethought. He was just there

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Speaker 1: and always seems to be there when I need a

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Speaker 1: shoulder to cry or a token of attention. He's married,

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Speaker 1: and although he's been very supportive, I doubt that he

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Speaker 1: has any romantic inclinations towards me anyway. But the feelings

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Speaker 1: I have for him really show up what I don't

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Speaker 1: feel for my husband any longer. My feelings for him

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Speaker 1: went through trial by fire, and there is little left

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Speaker 1: but ashes. Now that the kids are on the verge

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Speaker 1: of adulthood and he has no one else, I don't

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Speaker 1: feel I can leave him alone. Yet I can't deal

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Speaker 1: with these feelings I have towards someone else. I feel

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Speaker 1: like a hypocrite, adulteress and a home record even though

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Speaker 1: I've done, I've never done anything to encourage this man

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Speaker 1: away from his family. I don't know what to do,

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Speaker 1: but the guilt and hypocrisy are eating away at my soul.

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Speaker 1: Not happy with anything or anyone help me, Steve Dear

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Speaker 1: not happy? Yeah, you know what, you sound like a

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Speaker 1: woman who's just fed up. You've gone through a lot.

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Speaker 1: You've done what any good wife would do and be

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Speaker 1: on your marriage vows. Say though that, uh, you know

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Speaker 1: you should stay married through sickness and health, and you

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Speaker 1: are doing that. You're tired, though, you're unhappy, you're depressed,

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Speaker 1: you feel trapped, and this man has come along. When

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Speaker 1: you're very, very vulnerable, and it's easy to fall and

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Speaker 1: develop feelings for people when you're in that kind of

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Speaker 1: open state like that, and that's what happened. And now

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Speaker 1: you're sprung on this other man. This other man has

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Speaker 1: taken full advantage of you and you're in a full

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Speaker 1: blown affair now it sounds like it seems and uh

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Speaker 1: that's why. Um, you know you have this guilt and stuff.

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Speaker 1: You feel this way. You feel like a hypocrite, you

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Speaker 1: feel like an adulterous and a home record. Um, there's

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Speaker 1: only a couple of things you really can do. For starters,

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Speaker 1: stop seeing this guy. You know, you gotta stop seeing

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Speaker 1: him because you're still married. Okay, you could stop seeing

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Speaker 1: him and try to work it out with your husband.

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Speaker 1: You know, you didn't say that you didn't love him.

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Speaker 1: You just said you're sick and tired of him, you know.

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Speaker 1: Or you can leave your husband. You can leave him.

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Speaker 1: I mean, those are really your only options, Steve. That's after.

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Speaker 1: She has a real problem, she really really, I'll get

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Speaker 1: into it when we come back. She has a real,

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Speaker 1: real problem. I'm not sure I don't have it yet

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Speaker 1: exactly what to say to her. I think you're correcting

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Speaker 1: your answer. Thh, Shirley, Really, I think you're very correct.

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Speaker 1: I think She's guilt written though in two ways, and

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Speaker 1: so I'll get into it best I can. It's just

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Speaker 1: my opinion, just like these are just Sherley's opinions. All

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Speaker 1: we have time, No, we won't have time. Of course

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Speaker 1: we won't become of course would be just the show.

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Speaker 1: The letter is posted, by the way, so if you

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Speaker 1: want to check it out, if you want to comment

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Speaker 1: or send us an email, you can go to Steve

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Speaker 1: Harvey dot com, click on Strawberry letter and get to

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Speaker 1: type in. That's it twelve minutes after. We'll be back

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Speaker 1: with Steve's response right after this. But come on, Steve,

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Speaker 1: come on, let's get to it. Part two of your

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Speaker 1: response to today's Here we go. Uh subject trapped in

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Speaker 1: the marriage? Help me, Steve, Well, Steve can't help you,

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Speaker 1: God can. I can tell you that in this letter

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Speaker 1: because you're in quite a position. Steve really can't help you.

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Speaker 1: God can really. I think Shirley's advice solidly is you

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Speaker 1: have to leave this man alone. But on the other hand,

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Speaker 1: do I sympathize with what you're saying? Yeah, And all

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Speaker 1: the other women who can sympathize with you what you're saying,

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Speaker 1: I'm sure they are and then they are married women

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Speaker 1: who are going get your hands off my man while

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Speaker 1: you over there with this man's with this other woman's husband.

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Speaker 1: It's gonna go both ways. Um, the over there with

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Speaker 1: the other husband. You know that's out of line. I

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Speaker 1: don't have to explain that to you. That's morally not

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Speaker 1: the correct way to go about life. And sure you

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Speaker 1: know that you're an adult, that's why you have these

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Speaker 1: confused feelings. But on the other hand, lady, I can't

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Speaker 1: sympathize with you because you have sacrificed yourself for twenty

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Speaker 1: plus years. You stayed in the manage that you really

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Speaker 1: didn't want to stay in. You never work compatible with him.

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Speaker 1: You sacrifice yourself with him, his parents. Now he's sick.

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Speaker 1: Now he ain't worked in ten years. I don't where

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Speaker 1: still be talking to you crazy, and you're taking care

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Speaker 1: of him and everything about him, and he kind of

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Speaker 1: talking to you crazy. Y'all ain't compatible. Most people that

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Speaker 1: ain't compatible talk to each other crazy, because when you

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Speaker 1: ain't happy with the person, you're gonna talk crazy. When

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Speaker 1: you see him. Now, the sight of your husband turning

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Speaker 1: your stomach, that's gonna be hard to do the rest

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Speaker 1: of your life. Look over there and somebody turning your store.

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Speaker 1: And now he's sick. Now I don't know what illness

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Speaker 1: ain't gonna ever work again. But is he's sitting over

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Speaker 1: there complaining. Say, man, that's gonna be tough for you

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Speaker 1: to stay in that situation. Now, what you could do

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Speaker 1: is divorce. You could do that, and people say, well, Steve,

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Speaker 1: the Bible says, and the vile say, through sick and

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Speaker 1: it's and in health. Yeah, do. But people get divorced

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Speaker 1: all the time. And then people leave for lesser reasons.

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Speaker 1: Somebody was cheating on somebody, somebody, financial problems came up,

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Speaker 1: They just ain't compatible. What are people leave for all

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Speaker 1: the reasons? Well, now that he's sick, you feel guilty

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Speaker 1: and you don't think you could leave. But here's a

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Speaker 1: real problem. Though you met a man not intentionally, not

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Speaker 1: there when you needed a shoulder. The crown or token

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Speaker 1: attention problem is he married and although he's been very supportive,

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Speaker 1: any romantic inclinations towards me anyway. Okay, lady, come on, now,

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Speaker 1: come on now, let's get this back into reality. He

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Speaker 1: Let's be grown now, you know, I mean, what is

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Speaker 1: it he'd asked for you? You You attracted to the man.

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Speaker 1: A matter of fact, you're developing feelings for the man.

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Speaker 1: So you've grown. Ain't nowhere else to go. I don't

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Speaker 1: know how sick own boy is at your house, but

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Speaker 1: he's so sick that he ain't bringing no heat. He

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Speaker 1: to get your bacon fry. Maybe. Well, like I said,

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Speaker 1: you got to be able sisily to some at least

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Speaker 1: warming or something gotta happen to the bacon. You gotta

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Speaker 1: at least take it out the slab and lay it

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Speaker 1: you can't eat the breaking raw. Ain't nobody can eat

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Speaker 1: raw bacon. You got to get this bacon cooked. Now

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Speaker 1: you might not be getting your bacon cook. And if

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Speaker 1: he do try to cook your bacon, the sight of

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Speaker 1: him makes you sick to your stomach. So the bacon

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Speaker 1: process ain't even good baking when you get it. Y'all

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Speaker 1: just over there now. So now I sympathize with you.

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Speaker 1: Where you got to do something? Now you have found

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Speaker 1: this romance. Now the dude married. Now, can I tell

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Speaker 1: you that this ain't going to go nowhere? Can you

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Speaker 1: not find another dude that ain't married to develop these

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Speaker 1: Then you says you don't. Uh, You've done nothing to

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Speaker 1: keep him away, to encourage him, And I feel like

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Speaker 1: a hypocrite adulteress and a home record, even though I've

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Speaker 1: never done anything to encourage this man away from his family. Oh,

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Speaker 1: yes you have. You're needing him. Him. Knowing you need

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Speaker 1: him is to draw card away from the family. All right,

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Speaker 1: thank you, Steve. You know we got to get out

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Speaker 1: of here. You're listening to the Steve Harvey Morning Show.