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Speaker 1: hold on tight here it is job every let all right,

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Speaker 1: thank you enough subject. I don't have time for these games.

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Speaker 1: Dear Stephen Shirley, My husband and I have been married

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Speaker 1: for eleven years and one of our main problems is

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Speaker 1: his fourteen year old daughter, my stepdaughter. To put it nicely,

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Speaker 1: she is a liar and a manipulator. I have always

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Speaker 1: I treated her better than her own mother does. I

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Speaker 1: was spending my money, she loved me to death. The

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Speaker 1: moment I told her no and I had to discipline her,

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Speaker 1: she turned on me. It's March and this child has

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Speaker 1: I showed the Facebook post to her daddy and he

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Speaker 1: blew me off. Now he allows her to walk around

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Speaker 1: She recently texted her daddy lies about me, and he

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Speaker 1: had the nerve to come home and blow up at me.

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Speaker 1: She's daddy's baby. So now I have just checked out.

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Speaker 1: And when it comes, when it comes to her, I

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Speaker 1: have blocked her number in my phone, and when she

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Speaker 1: comes to our house, I stay in my room. My

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Speaker 1: husband doesn't understand why I'm so upset. I feel used

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Speaker 1: of my rope. Please help. Yeah, this is a bunch

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Speaker 1: for eleven years. It's time for him to step up

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Speaker 1: as long as he lets it go on, she feels

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Speaker 1: you know, um, she has a right to continue to

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Speaker 1: disrespect you. So you don't have to play her games.

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Speaker 1: You said you don't you say you don't have time

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Speaker 1: for these games. Don't play her games. That's not just

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Speaker 1: her dad's house, is your house too, So you have

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Speaker 1: to let her know that when she comes to the house,

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Speaker 1: she has to speak, not be disrespectful to you. And

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Speaker 1: uh you you need to have a conversation with your husband.

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Speaker 1: I mean a conversation, not one where you blow up

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Speaker 1: You know, this is your house, and you guys have

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Speaker 1: How is she able to just walk around your house

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Speaker 1: and and do all these things? I mean, it's completely disrespectful.

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Speaker 1: You gotta let her know. You gotta let him know,

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Speaker 1: and you guys got to talk about this situation and

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Speaker 1: put this fourteen year old child in a child's place

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Speaker 1: where she should be. Steve, you know, this is simply

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Speaker 1: when adults have allowed a child to get away with

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Speaker 1: She fourteen, who does this? First of all, I know

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Speaker 1: exactly where you're coming from with this. As long as

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Speaker 1: seen that before. But let me help you out with

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Speaker 1: a couple of things. First of all, this is on

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Speaker 1: the father. He cannot let nobody come into your house

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Speaker 1: to you since December? Really? Are you kidding me? I

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Speaker 1: wish you would come in my house and don't open

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Speaker 1: You're not gonna. You're not gonna come in my house

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Speaker 1: and disrespect me. You shouldn't have to go to your

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Speaker 1: Now you're in your house, unhappy day downstairs? Eating green

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Speaker 1: or cheese. Man, what you are. You should not allow

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Speaker 1: I promise you, I'm not gonna be the only one

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Speaker 1: of the left, I'm gonna just come up with a

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Speaker 1: told me, if you don't like what's happening down the

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Speaker 1: and time out, she hollered at me. Rickey. Mama said

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Speaker 1: Don't go to Ricket house playing marvels no more, because

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Speaker 1: that's that woman house. You should be the same way

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Speaker 1: Run all up now. She didn't text him at work.

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Speaker 1: she texts, and she lies. You can fix that. Come

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Speaker 1: Come in here one more time, snapping off on me

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Speaker 1: you are her, don't. I'm telling you how to end this.

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Speaker 1: You can end this with some direct conversation sitting up

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Speaker 1: in here disrespecting me and my house. When we come back,

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna have a list of things you can do

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Speaker 1: where you ain't got the only woman be tightened. This

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Speaker 1: your response to today's Strawberry letter. I don't have time

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Speaker 1: for these games here. This fourteen year old girl comes

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Speaker 1: her room until she's gone. A fourteen year old coming

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Speaker 1: not for happen. Can I tell you something I didn't

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Speaker 1: to me, they've been married eleven years. She let's do

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Speaker 1: some math. They've been married eleven years. The girl ain't

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Speaker 1: be four teen. One of them years of her fourteen,

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Speaker 1: her mama was pregnant. Hello, some time before that the

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Speaker 1: baby had to be conceived. Oh hello, break it down.

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Speaker 1: See now do you understand why I'm going with this? Now?

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Speaker 1: You had the conception period, the dating period, you had

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Speaker 1: the pregnancy. We're only looking at at max. At max

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Speaker 1: a year and a half that we can't exactly explain.

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Speaker 1: And during that year and a half, and promise you

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Speaker 1: he was dating the woman he's married to. Wow, that

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Speaker 1: woman had just had this baby or pregnant. Now she

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Speaker 1: gets the ring and her ass left with the protein. Yell,

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Speaker 1: huh so now while she in the hole, when she

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Speaker 1: go to visit that healther over. There is the reason

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Speaker 1: me and your daddy ain't together. And now she's bringing it.

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Speaker 1: She's poisoning the girl's mind. That's your problem. It ain't

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Speaker 1: the girl, it's her mama. I promise you that's behind now.

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Speaker 1: Whether it's behind it or not. What you ain't going

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Speaker 1: to come up in my house and do is disrespecting me.

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Speaker 1: I ain't gonna be the only one in here tight

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Speaker 1: what's happening? So I got a few things you can

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Speaker 1: the less guts on your part, because you don't want

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Speaker 1: Just leave for two days. No, no, Just go somewhere

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Speaker 1: two days, enjoy yourself, get your spy treatment, going somewhere

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Speaker 1: that's for one. Here's the next thing you should do. Okay,

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Speaker 1: any plates on your kitchen table, turn the damn table over.

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Speaker 1: Ain't nobody else, damn thing you ain't speaking to me,

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Speaker 1: ain't nobody eating, or turn the damn table ball of seal,

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Speaker 1: but forgetting whatever, turn it down. That's right. I like it, Steve.

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Speaker 1: Uh huh, I wish time before we go, Before we go,

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Speaker 1: walk right up to her as soon as you get

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Speaker 1: right in her face, kiss her dad in her damn mouth,

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Speaker 1: which some tune that I loved you, okay, and that no,

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Speaker 1: we're gonna go. Uh we gotta. Yeah, that's how you

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Speaker 1: throw a person into something. Certainly throw me into something, alright. Please,

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Speaker 1: we gotta get out of here. Email us or Instagram

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Speaker 1: and your thoughts at my girls, Shirley and don't forget

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