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Subject is I don't know 11 00:00:32,800 --> 00:00:36,440 Speaker 1: my parents my parents anymore. I don't know my parents anymore. 12 00:00:37,360 --> 00:00:40,120 Speaker 1: Dear Stephen Shirley. I'm twenty four years old and I've 13 00:00:40,159 --> 00:00:42,879 Speaker 1: been married for almost a year. My husband and I 14 00:00:42,960 --> 00:00:45,960 Speaker 1: have a toddler and I'm going back to nursing school, 15 00:00:46,440 --> 00:00:49,480 Speaker 1: so my parents encourage us to move in with them. 16 00:00:49,920 --> 00:00:52,919 Speaker 1: My husband loves my parents, so we moved in and 17 00:00:52,960 --> 00:00:56,080 Speaker 1: it's helped us with childcare and I don't have to work. 18 00:00:56,280 --> 00:00:59,480 Speaker 1: I can focus on my studies. My husband and I 19 00:00:59,560 --> 00:01:02,480 Speaker 1: moved into to a large upstairs room above my parents' 20 00:01:02,520 --> 00:01:04,679 Speaker 1: room so we could have a lot of space. We 21 00:01:04,760 --> 00:01:07,800 Speaker 1: got home cooked meals and my dad washes my car 22 00:01:07,920 --> 00:01:10,959 Speaker 1: and fills it up with gas. You would think we 23 00:01:11,000 --> 00:01:14,399 Speaker 1: have an ideal living situation, but it's not. I don't 24 00:01:14,440 --> 00:01:17,360 Speaker 1: know who my parents are anymore. I grew up in 25 00:01:17,440 --> 00:01:20,760 Speaker 1: a Christian home and we went to church a lot. 26 00:01:21,080 --> 00:01:24,319 Speaker 1: I wasn't allowed to participate in cheerleading, the dance team, 27 00:01:24,440 --> 00:01:29,240 Speaker 1: or volleyball because the outfits were too revealing. My faith 28 00:01:29,360 --> 00:01:32,560 Speaker 1: is also why I had to get married early. When 29 00:01:32,560 --> 00:01:35,440 Speaker 1: we got pregnant, the pressure was on for us to 30 00:01:35,440 --> 00:01:38,440 Speaker 1: get married. But since we've moved in with my parents, 31 00:01:38,520 --> 00:01:42,120 Speaker 1: things are so different now. My mom walks around in 32 00:01:42,200 --> 00:01:46,760 Speaker 1: tank tops and booty shorts daily. My husband always comments 33 00:01:46,800 --> 00:01:49,960 Speaker 1: on how nice my mom's body still looks, and my 34 00:01:50,080 --> 00:01:52,840 Speaker 1: dad hugs my mom from behind and grinds on her 35 00:01:53,240 --> 00:01:56,880 Speaker 1: in front of us and our child. It's so bizarre. 36 00:01:57,320 --> 00:02:00,320 Speaker 1: And yes, we can hear them having sex, but by 37 00:02:00,400 --> 00:02:03,960 Speaker 1: far the cringiest thing they is that they could hear 38 00:02:04,000 --> 00:02:07,360 Speaker 1: my husband and I having sex. They mentioned how how 39 00:02:07,360 --> 00:02:10,240 Speaker 1: our bed creaks, and my dad said my husband must 40 00:02:10,320 --> 00:02:13,640 Speaker 1: be putting in work because that we only have sex 41 00:02:13,639 --> 00:02:17,160 Speaker 1: when they're gone, and that doesn't happen often. Moving out 42 00:02:17,280 --> 00:02:19,440 Speaker 1: isn't an option for us right now. So how do 43 00:02:19,520 --> 00:02:22,799 Speaker 1: we live with my freaky Christian parents? Can I talk 44 00:02:22,840 --> 00:02:27,799 Speaker 1: to them about this or would it be considered disrespectful? Well, 45 00:02:27,880 --> 00:02:30,120 Speaker 1: you know what, this is just freaky to you. I 46 00:02:30,120 --> 00:02:33,960 Speaker 1: mean people change, parents change, and obviously your parents are 47 00:02:33,960 --> 00:02:37,360 Speaker 1: cool with the new them. So before you go judging 48 00:02:37,400 --> 00:02:40,520 Speaker 1: them and having words with them, don't forget. They've opened 49 00:02:40,600 --> 00:02:43,760 Speaker 1: up their home to you guys, and that is a blessing. 50 00:02:44,040 --> 00:02:46,720 Speaker 1: If you don't like the situation, the best thing you 51 00:02:46,880 --> 00:02:49,320 Speaker 1: and your husband can do is to hurry up and 52 00:02:49,360 --> 00:02:52,760 Speaker 1: get out. Get out of your parents' house. You may 53 00:02:52,840 --> 00:02:54,919 Speaker 1: think you have a say and you could talk to them, 54 00:02:55,160 --> 00:02:57,600 Speaker 1: but it is their house and you guys are simply 55 00:02:57,639 --> 00:03:01,880 Speaker 1: guests there. Enjoy and appreciate this hospitality they're showing you. 56 00:03:02,360 --> 00:03:04,880 Speaker 1: I really can't believe you're complaining. I mean, your mom 57 00:03:04,960 --> 00:03:07,560 Speaker 1: might be a bit much in your eyes in front 58 00:03:07,560 --> 00:03:10,920 Speaker 1: of your husband right now, and I don't doubt that, 59 00:03:12,120 --> 00:03:15,200 Speaker 1: But lord, why is he even commenting on her body? 60 00:03:15,400 --> 00:03:15,800 Speaker 2: Why? 61 00:03:16,520 --> 00:03:19,240 Speaker 1: But again, this is her house and your dad likes it. 62 00:03:19,560 --> 00:03:22,200 Speaker 1: I'm not saying you shouldn't speak your mind, but you 63 00:03:22,240 --> 00:03:24,639 Speaker 1: should do that in your own house, which you don't 64 00:03:24,680 --> 00:03:27,280 Speaker 1: have right now. That's where you're in. It should should 65 00:03:27,280 --> 00:03:30,520 Speaker 1: be focused getting your own house and be grateful for now. 66 00:03:30,560 --> 00:03:36,240 Speaker 3: Steve, Well, surely you said something. You said it's a 67 00:03:36,280 --> 00:03:40,320 Speaker 3: blessing to be able to stay at your parents' house. 68 00:03:42,720 --> 00:03:43,080 Speaker 2: It's not. 69 00:03:45,160 --> 00:03:49,840 Speaker 3: It's a problem. Whenever you got to move back in 70 00:03:49,960 --> 00:03:56,080 Speaker 3: with your parents, that ain't a blessing. That's a problem, and. 71 00:03:57,880 --> 00:04:02,360 Speaker 2: It just it. It speaks on so many other levels. 72 00:04:03,160 --> 00:04:07,080 Speaker 3: What I've learned in life is everything that free ain't good. 73 00:04:08,680 --> 00:04:12,240 Speaker 3: Free usually come with someone. That's what I've discovered in 74 00:04:12,240 --> 00:04:15,760 Speaker 3: my life. So they're twenty five, four year old and 75 00:04:15,840 --> 00:04:19,800 Speaker 3: been married for a year. They young, they got a toddler, 76 00:04:21,520 --> 00:04:23,800 Speaker 3: and now the girl want to go back to nursing school. 77 00:04:23,920 --> 00:04:26,120 Speaker 3: So your parents said they could move in with y'all 78 00:04:26,680 --> 00:04:30,320 Speaker 3: to save money and have child care and you get 79 00:04:30,360 --> 00:04:33,800 Speaker 3: free meals, you can focus on your studies. And you 80 00:04:33,880 --> 00:04:38,840 Speaker 3: and your husband moved into a large upstairs bedroom over 81 00:04:38,960 --> 00:04:42,880 Speaker 3: your parents' room cause it's got a lot of space. Well, 82 00:04:43,200 --> 00:04:46,120 Speaker 3: your daddy washing your car, you know, gassing it up. 83 00:04:47,000 --> 00:04:51,440 Speaker 3: But she says, I don't know who my parents are anymore. 84 00:04:51,480 --> 00:04:53,080 Speaker 2: Which is the title of the letter. 85 00:04:53,560 --> 00:04:57,560 Speaker 3: I don't know my parents anymore. Well, let me tell 86 00:04:57,560 --> 00:05:03,360 Speaker 3: you something about your parents. You just didn't know your parents. 87 00:05:04,960 --> 00:05:08,839 Speaker 2: That's all it is. Mom and daddy been like this. 88 00:05:11,440 --> 00:05:14,520 Speaker 3: You know, you say, things is so different now, No, 89 00:05:14,839 --> 00:05:18,720 Speaker 3: you just now finding out your mom walk around in 90 00:05:18,720 --> 00:05:24,800 Speaker 3: the tank top and booty shorts daily. My husband comments 91 00:05:24,839 --> 00:05:27,520 Speaker 3: all the time on how nice my mom body look. 92 00:05:28,320 --> 00:05:31,560 Speaker 3: My daddy hugging my mama from behind, grinding on in 93 00:05:31,560 --> 00:05:36,479 Speaker 3: front of all of us and the baby. You know, now, 94 00:05:36,520 --> 00:05:40,440 Speaker 3: you say, all this is crazy because you grew up 95 00:05:40,480 --> 00:05:43,800 Speaker 3: in a Christian home and y'all went to church a lot, 96 00:05:44,000 --> 00:05:46,919 Speaker 3: and you wasn't allowed to participate in cheerleading the dance 97 00:05:46,960 --> 00:05:50,960 Speaker 3: team of volleyball because the outfits were too revealing. 98 00:05:52,680 --> 00:05:54,640 Speaker 2: Okay, that's what they told you. 99 00:05:57,080 --> 00:06:02,599 Speaker 3: But Deacon had your mama Pearl Nil at the house 100 00:06:02,640 --> 00:06:07,119 Speaker 3: wearing booty shorts and tank tops. 101 00:06:07,160 --> 00:06:08,800 Speaker 2: Now you just found out about this. 102 00:06:10,320 --> 00:06:12,440 Speaker 3: Now he walking around in front of your husband and 103 00:06:12,440 --> 00:06:15,400 Speaker 3: your husband coming on home, how good your body? Your 104 00:06:15,440 --> 00:06:18,599 Speaker 3: mama's body still look? He twenty four. He's stupid. He 105 00:06:18,680 --> 00:06:21,880 Speaker 3: don't know to keep that to hisself right now. He 106 00:06:22,080 --> 00:06:27,880 Speaker 3: just stupid. And so now we got a whole another problem. 107 00:06:27,920 --> 00:06:31,360 Speaker 3: And y'all can hear him having sex. That's the part 108 00:06:31,400 --> 00:06:34,520 Speaker 3: we'll start with when we come back. What all right, 109 00:06:34,960 --> 00:06:40,200 Speaker 3: Pearl and Amos? What is Pearl and Amos downstairs doing? 110 00:06:40,680 --> 00:06:41,440 Speaker 2: All right? Steve? 111 00:06:41,640 --> 00:06:43,640 Speaker 1: Well in part two of your response coming up at 112 00:06:43,680 --> 00:06:47,360 Speaker 1: twenty three minutes after the hour, Today's strawberry letard subject 113 00:06:47,440 --> 00:06:49,799 Speaker 1: I don't know my parents anymore. 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They had a toddler. 128 00:07:45,160 --> 00:07:48,280 Speaker 3: She got pregnant before, so that marriage got kind of 129 00:07:48,320 --> 00:07:48,920 Speaker 3: pushed up. 130 00:07:49,160 --> 00:07:50,320 Speaker 2: They grew up very religious. 131 00:07:50,360 --> 00:07:54,400 Speaker 3: She wasn't allowed to participate in volleyball or cheerleading. 132 00:07:54,360 --> 00:07:57,000 Speaker 2: Or dance class because the outfits was too reveal. 133 00:07:57,080 --> 00:07:57,160 Speaker 1: It. 134 00:07:57,680 --> 00:07:59,800 Speaker 3: But when they moved in with their mama over their 135 00:07:59,800 --> 00:08:01,880 Speaker 3: month mamma's room, they got a big room over their 136 00:08:01,880 --> 00:08:04,920 Speaker 3: mom and daddy room. Her mama walk around in tank 137 00:08:04,960 --> 00:08:09,320 Speaker 3: tops in booty shorts. Your husband, who's dumb because he 138 00:08:09,440 --> 00:08:13,120 Speaker 3: twenty four. He keep mentioning how fine your mama is, 139 00:08:13,360 --> 00:08:16,440 Speaker 3: because he don't know to keep that to hisself because 140 00:08:16,440 --> 00:08:19,440 Speaker 3: he's twenty four. He thinks he still thinks he can 141 00:08:19,480 --> 00:08:24,640 Speaker 3: share stuff everything he don't know. You gotta shut your mouth. 142 00:08:25,400 --> 00:08:28,800 Speaker 3: So and then it just kept on. So now she 143 00:08:29,000 --> 00:08:34,560 Speaker 3: says she doesn't know them anymore because they got a 144 00:08:34,640 --> 00:08:41,280 Speaker 3: room above them, and she can hear them having sex. 145 00:08:42,880 --> 00:08:50,880 Speaker 3: Pearl and Amos is down there getting it in. And 146 00:08:50,920 --> 00:08:53,640 Speaker 3: then she said, but my father cringiest things. They can 147 00:08:53,679 --> 00:08:56,960 Speaker 3: hear me and my husband having sick and they mentioned 148 00:08:57,000 --> 00:09:01,640 Speaker 3: how bed creaks, and my dad said, my husband must 149 00:09:01,720 --> 00:09:02,920 Speaker 3: be putting in work. 150 00:09:04,160 --> 00:09:13,160 Speaker 2: Now that's weird. This is his daughter I don't. I 151 00:09:13,160 --> 00:09:15,200 Speaker 2: ain't gonna be aby have causation. 152 00:09:16,200 --> 00:09:22,480 Speaker 3: Uh with uh about my I just I ain't gonna 153 00:09:22,480 --> 00:09:26,840 Speaker 3: be able to have that conversation. So your parents has 154 00:09:26,840 --> 00:09:29,920 Speaker 3: been freaky dicky for a long time. You're just not 155 00:09:30,040 --> 00:09:35,080 Speaker 3: finding out about it. He grinding on your grandmama. Well 156 00:09:35,120 --> 00:09:37,560 Speaker 3: on the baby, grandmama. Now the baby is learning a 157 00:09:37,559 --> 00:09:41,000 Speaker 3: lot of stuff now that this has helped a little 158 00:09:41,040 --> 00:09:43,480 Speaker 3: toddler out because now he's gonna go to school for 159 00:09:43,559 --> 00:09:46,840 Speaker 3: show and tell, and he gonna show what grand grandpa 160 00:09:47,000 --> 00:09:50,640 Speaker 3: do when he walk up on grandma. All that's gonna 161 00:09:50,679 --> 00:09:55,440 Speaker 3: get out. I really don't have and hear you say 162 00:09:55,440 --> 00:09:57,559 Speaker 3: that moving out is not an option for you right now? 163 00:09:59,840 --> 00:10:03,800 Speaker 3: So so how do we live with my freaky Christian parents? 164 00:10:04,520 --> 00:10:06,880 Speaker 3: Can I talk to them about this or would it 165 00:10:06,920 --> 00:10:12,880 Speaker 3: be considered as disrespectful? Well, it's not considered disrespectful. It's 166 00:10:12,960 --> 00:10:17,800 Speaker 3: just that's their house and what they do in their 167 00:10:17,840 --> 00:10:21,760 Speaker 3: house is their business. And there's really nothing you could 168 00:10:21,800 --> 00:10:31,320 Speaker 3: say but quick call it a Christian house. There's other 169 00:10:31,480 --> 00:10:33,560 Speaker 3: names you can give it that will help you deal 170 00:10:33,640 --> 00:10:39,400 Speaker 3: with it better. Oh, like, for example, you could call 171 00:10:39,480 --> 00:10:43,160 Speaker 3: it the bunny rage. 172 00:10:44,640 --> 00:10:58,960 Speaker 2: No way, come on, you could call it the pink Pony. 173 00:10:59,360 --> 00:11:01,720 Speaker 2: Here's another a name you could call it. You can 174 00:11:01,800 --> 00:11:05,320 Speaker 2: call it cheetahs. 175 00:11:05,520 --> 00:11:16,200 Speaker 4: Ye ye, call it magic city. 176 00:11:16,679 --> 00:11:19,080 Speaker 2: But you can quit calling at a good Christian home. 177 00:11:21,040 --> 00:11:25,360 Speaker 3: One thing I've always said about Christians when they all 178 00:11:25,400 --> 00:11:30,199 Speaker 3: be all up in their seat, where do little Christians 179 00:11:30,240 --> 00:11:32,760 Speaker 3: come from? 180 00:11:32,800 --> 00:11:37,679 Speaker 2: From? Christians? Somebody got to be in that doing that thing. Now. 181 00:11:37,720 --> 00:11:41,600 Speaker 3: The problem is they have one image up at the church, 182 00:11:43,600 --> 00:11:45,680 Speaker 3: which a lot of people do. They put that mask 183 00:11:45,760 --> 00:11:49,800 Speaker 3: on for the church, sit up act all got their 184 00:11:49,920 --> 00:11:52,520 Speaker 3: nose in their got their suit on, passing the trade, 185 00:11:52,600 --> 00:11:57,160 Speaker 3: know all the protocol. But when they get home, though, hey, hey, 186 00:11:57,320 --> 00:11:59,880 Speaker 3: pay go on in there and take that missionary out. 187 00:12:00,080 --> 00:12:02,480 Speaker 2: You know, gona gonna put your clothes on like I 188 00:12:02,600 --> 00:12:05,080 Speaker 2: like it. What you want me the way I ain't 189 00:12:05,240 --> 00:12:07,920 Speaker 2: put your put in booty shots on. That can't talk. 190 00:12:08,000 --> 00:12:09,480 Speaker 2: Come on in here, let me let me get up 191 00:12:09,480 --> 00:12:14,360 Speaker 2: on that thing. Wow girl girl, the moodie kids in here, 192 00:12:14,360 --> 00:12:19,719 Speaker 2: I don't care. Can nobody kid being in here? What 193 00:12:19,920 --> 00:12:21,520 Speaker 2: you're looking at? How you think you got here? 194 00:12:25,040 --> 00:12:25,280 Speaker 3: Yeah? 195 00:12:26,000 --> 00:12:29,040 Speaker 2: Now you found out that dickon is a dirty old man. 196 00:12:32,160 --> 00:12:34,240 Speaker 1: Yeah, they need to go back to church. 197 00:12:35,240 --> 00:12:38,360 Speaker 3: No, no, no, no, no day and that. But I 198 00:12:38,360 --> 00:12:40,240 Speaker 3: don't know how he even told him, boy, that boy 199 00:12:40,280 --> 00:12:42,439 Speaker 3: must be putting in work. I couldn't have said that. 200 00:12:42,400 --> 00:12:43,319 Speaker 2: In front of your daughter. 201 00:12:45,800 --> 00:12:50,440 Speaker 3: Yeah right, crazy, but he But but but they upstairs 202 00:12:50,440 --> 00:12:53,240 Speaker 3: hearing some stuff they ain't never heard because old people 203 00:12:53,280 --> 00:13:02,640 Speaker 3: holler out different stuff. Ah, you flogging me now? 204 00:13:03,760 --> 00:13:07,160 Speaker 2: Spak that money? All right? 205 00:13:07,600 --> 00:13:13,000 Speaker 1: Post you're coming on Today's Strawberry Letter at Steve Harvey 206 00:13:13,160 --> 00:13:20,400 Speaker 1: FM on INSTAGRAMA. 207 00:13:19,360 --> 00:13:19,640 Speaker 2: Break. 208 00:13:19,720 --> 00:13:22,240 Speaker 1: Yeah, he's at the right now. 209 00:13:22,320 --> 00:13:25,400 Speaker 2: Don't let him say nothing going just more than ball 210 00:13:25,920 --> 00:13:26,920 Speaker 2: And check. 211 00:13:26,720 --> 00:13:32,000 Speaker 1: Out the Letter podcast on the free iHeartRadio app where 212 00:13:32,080 --> 00:13:33,920 Speaker 1: free never sounded so good. 213 00:13:34,600 --> 00:13:37,880 Speaker 2: Giving him to giving him to knit needles. 214 00:13:38,040 --> 00:13:44,240 Speaker 1: Downloaded today, What you what? No? 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