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Speaker 1: It is a Strawberry Letter. Thank you, nephew. Subjects Living

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Speaker 1: with another Man's wife to Stephen Shirley. I've been married

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Speaker 1: a little over a year now and this is my

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Speaker 1: second marriage. Since the wedding, my husband and I have

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Speaker 1: been searching for a new church home that we mutually

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Speaker 1: agreed on. We visited churches and settled at a church

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Speaker 1: close to our home with a good, stern pastor. We

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Speaker 1: loved his preaching style and felt really welcome there until

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Speaker 1: one Sunday when the pastor's message was so crazy that

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Speaker 1: it sent my husband into a frenzy. The pastor preached

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Speaker 1: about marriage and stated that anyone that has been married

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Speaker 1: more than once is going straight to hell if the

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Speaker 1: person gets and if the person gets remarried, the new

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Speaker 1: spouse is going to hell. Too. Pastor said that God

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Speaker 1: only recognizes one marriage and there is no such thing

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Speaker 1: as divorce. Ever, my husband took the message literally and

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Speaker 1: on the way home, he said the pastor was speaking

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Speaker 1: directly from the Bible. I showed my husband the exact

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Speaker 1: scripture in the Bible, and it didn't say anything about

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Speaker 1: anyone burning in hell. Even still, my husband believed what

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Speaker 1: bad feeling about me on our wedding day. So that

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Speaker 1: must have been why I was blindsided because I thought

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Speaker 1: our marriage was great and he was happy with me.

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Speaker 1: My husband's distanced himself from me and we stopped having

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Speaker 1: any type of intimacy. I refused to go back to

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Speaker 1: the church, but my husband loves it. The final straw

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Speaker 1: was last week when he came home and said the

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Speaker 1: pastor asked him if he was still living with another

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Speaker 1: man's wife. I gave my husband an ultimatum to either

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Speaker 1: wacky pastor, my marriage is in shambles. I want to

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Speaker 1: get my marriage back on track, but I don't know

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Speaker 1: how is this worth fighting for or is my husband

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Speaker 1: losing his mind like the pastor. Please help. Well, I

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Speaker 1: mean this is only worth huh. Yeah, this is a

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Speaker 1: good letter. This is a really good letter. You ask

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Speaker 1: if this is worth fighting for it, I'd say it's

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Speaker 1: worth fighting for it if you want to save your marriage.

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Speaker 1: You said you want to to to set your marriage

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Speaker 1: back on track. The problem is you can't be the

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Speaker 1: only one fighting in a two person marriage. You just can't.

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Speaker 1: Your husband doesn't seem to want anything like that. He

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Speaker 1: has distanced himself from you. You've stopped having any type

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Speaker 1: of end him asse. Your husband loves this church with

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Speaker 1: this crazy pastor, and the pastor is all up in

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Speaker 1: your marriage too. You were right to give your husband

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Speaker 1: an ultimatum in this case either leave the church or

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Speaker 1: or leave your home. And your marriage is in shambles

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Speaker 1: because your husband is following this pastor and not following

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Speaker 1: God as he should and as the Bible states. So

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Speaker 1: is this worth fighting for I would say no at

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Speaker 1: this point, because your husband even said he had a

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Speaker 1: this is not good. Okay for any marriage that's trying

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Speaker 1: to survive. This is not good. Your husband needs to

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Speaker 1: sounds like he wants where he wants to be and

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Speaker 1: not with you in this marriage and fighting for this marriage.

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Speaker 1: I don't think you have anything to fight for here, Steve. Wow,

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Speaker 1: this letter right here suggestion not good. You've been married

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Speaker 1: a little over a year now. Uh, this is your

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Speaker 1: your husband's second marriage, and this is my husband's second marriage.

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Speaker 1: We've been searched for a new church home we mutually

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Speaker 1: agreed upon. I guess so y'all both met the pastor

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Speaker 1: love just preaching style felt really good to one Sunday

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Speaker 1: the pastor's message through your husband into something. The pastor

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Speaker 1: told about marriage and stated that anybody that's been married

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Speaker 1: more than once, it's going straight to hell. This part

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Speaker 1: letter affected me deeply. And I can't go on right

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Speaker 1: now because this man, this pens to sid and stated

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Speaker 1: that anyone that has been married more than once, it's

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Speaker 1: that's messed up because right now three of us on

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Speaker 1: this show is gone. Yeah, that's why I thought it

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Speaker 1: once me, you and Jake. So we're gone. That's disheartening.

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Speaker 1: Trying to be a better person and a better Christian.

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Speaker 1: Now you just told me I don't care what I do.

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Speaker 1: no mercy, there's more, there's no grace, there is no

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Speaker 1: he died for sense. It ain't none of that. All

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Speaker 1: of y'all has been married more than one going straight

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Speaker 1: to Haley Hall. I want to say, that's all I

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Speaker 1: got for this letter, but I gotta do some more.

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Speaker 1: Straight to hell pass and said that God only recognizes

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Speaker 1: one marriage, and there's no sense thing as divorced. Okay, cool,

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Speaker 1: Let's say God only recognize one man. Can I pick

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Speaker 1: the one he look at? I'm with you on that one, Steve,

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Speaker 1: when you're right, yeah, let's go all right, listen, we'll

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Speaker 1: have just hold it right there, Steve. We'll have part

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Speaker 1: two of your response coming up at twenty three minutes

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Speaker 1: after the hour, subject living with another man's wife coming

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Speaker 1: up right after this. You're listening to show, all right, Steve,

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Speaker 1: come on, let's recap today's strawberry. I guess we're in

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Speaker 1: hell right now. Subjects living with another man's wife living

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Speaker 1: with another man's wife. Here's this woman been married to

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Speaker 1: this man a little over a year, and they struggle

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Speaker 1: trying to find themself a nice little church home. So

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Speaker 1: they finally found one that they agreed on and settle

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Speaker 1: that church close to their house. A good stern pastor.

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Speaker 1: We loved his preaching style and said it felt really welcome. Now,

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Speaker 1: well to one Sunday the pastor metsum was so crazy,

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Speaker 1: sent your husband into a frenzy. The pastor preacher about

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Speaker 1: marriage and stated that anybody that has been married more

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Speaker 1: than once is going to hell. And the person gets remarried,

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Speaker 1: the new spouse is going to hell too, or we'll

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Speaker 1: damn you can't get fast and steal. Yeah, damn man.

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Speaker 1: I'm just sitting there, you know, I let him into

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Speaker 1: my life, my heart, feeling pretty strong about myself, getting

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Speaker 1: myself together spiritually, and you just told me I'm going

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Speaker 1: because you don't know about God's mercy, his acts of forgiveness,

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Speaker 1: and you don't think that he puts into a counter

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Speaker 1: fact that we maybe we make mistakes, that people have

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Speaker 1: a chance to get over their mistakes. Well, your husband

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Speaker 1: my husband leave that. The pastor said. He told me

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Speaker 1: he had a bad feeling about me on our wedding day.

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Speaker 1: Ain't been married over a year, he told his wife

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Speaker 1: after going to this crazy church, I had a bad

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Speaker 1: that must have been why I was blindsided because I

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Speaker 1: thought our marriage was great. He was happy with me.

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Speaker 1: My husband distance itself for me and we stopped having

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Speaker 1: it to any type of intimacy. I refused to go

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell I gotta tell you something you don't

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Speaker 1: the relationship you would just do it don't seem real. Healthy,

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Speaker 1: ain't the word for it. I just think he can

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Speaker 1: I tell you what I think. Yes, I think your

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Speaker 1: husband was just looking for out man. I think he

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Speaker 1: was just looking for an out. I think he was

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Speaker 1: unhappy and found a way. She he listened to the path.

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Speaker 1: And that's saying, if you've been in one argument and

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Speaker 1: you've remarried, you're going to hell. Now that's alarming. So

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Speaker 1: but that you have it, that's it. I can't I

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Speaker 1: can't really, I can't really say anything because it doesn't

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Speaker 1: make any sense. What churches it out. Yeah, it's the

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Speaker 1: wrong church man. God is a forgiving god, even with

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Speaker 1: his commandments, He's still a forgiving God. Yes, yes, and

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Speaker 1: we're underground. I just don't believe that a person can

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Speaker 1: make a mistake, ask for forgiveness, recovering, and now you

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Speaker 1: can't go to heaven because you've been mad more than

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Speaker 1: one man in hell a long time again, yeah, since

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Speaker 1: two seven. If you if you get married more than

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Speaker 1: once and you're going to hell, does your exes go

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Speaker 1: to hell too? Because I told him to go to hell?

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Speaker 1: We got divorced? When you get that? Yeah, yes, yeah, okay,

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Speaker 1: I'm just cleaning it up. Yah, yeah, any I deal

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Speaker 1: with this new breaking news. I crowded hell. Okay, it's

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Speaker 1: gonna be some pastors, but there's gonna be a lot

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Speaker 1: of pastors down there. I know a lot of pastors

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Speaker 1: that's gotten divorces. Yeah, that's probably want to hear this.

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Speaker 1: Damn him, you pastor. Yeah yeah, And the Bible clearly

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Speaker 1: states don't don't follow man. You know, you got for

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Speaker 1: God's power, you know, not man's wisdom. Come on. But

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Speaker 1: it does explain why Jesus never got married. He was saying, Jesus, wow, yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: he found it. When the pastor came up with it's

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Speaker 1: a bad much. He found it out. That was it.

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Speaker 1: He found out. But he found the most sex and

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Speaker 1: all that stuff. Yeah yeah, he still but he found

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Speaker 1: it out and he gonna ride that out. Now they

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Speaker 1: ain't having sex. He having sex somewhere. He had a

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