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Speaker 1: It is the Strawberry letter, subject fifth times a charm, Dear,

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Speaker 1: surely I listened to your show all the time, and

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Speaker 1: I laugh at some of the letters I hear. However,

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Speaker 1: looking at my own life, I realized that I need

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Speaker 1: to write a letter. My darn cell that's what is man. See,

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Speaker 1: Steve said it. Steve just said it. I don't say

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Speaker 1: let me fish. Seeing I'm a married man of six years.

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Speaker 1: I love my wife, I have since we both said

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Speaker 1: I love you for the first time. I made a

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Speaker 1: Well I did, anyway several times. Yes, that's right, like

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Speaker 1: all the other cats out here. Some time ago, I

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Speaker 1: cheated with a few women. My wife knows about my exploits,

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Speaker 1: and we've since been to counseling about it. She has

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Speaker 1: enough to produce our first child. I look at him,

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Speaker 1: and I am terrified that, in addition to his father

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Speaker 1: weak in the ways of relationships. What I did is

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Speaker 1: a total lack of appreciation for my wife and all

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Speaker 1: has strayed. As far as I know, she hasn't straight,

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Speaker 1: but if she has, or ever does, I don't blame

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Speaker 1: women and wanting what I can't have. It's uncontrollable. It's

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Speaker 1: but it's getting harder and harder to resist the urges. Recently,

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Speaker 1: after speaking with a psychiatrist, I found that I have

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Speaker 1: bipolar disorder uh slash borderline personality disorder. It explains what

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Speaker 1: it exp lines why I have a setten you, fork

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Speaker 1: bursts and uncontrolled energy and destructive low points. I've medication

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Speaker 1: the fact that I hurt the one person on the

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Speaker 1: planet that loves me completely. I don't know what to

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Speaker 1: do now or where to go to make amends or

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Speaker 1: to take away the guilt and regret. Please help me,

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Speaker 1: my brother, thanks for writing. You know I guess I,

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Speaker 1: along with so many other women in the world, we

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Speaker 1: really do not get why men cheat. We don't get

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Speaker 1: why you guys can't keep it in your pants. But

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Speaker 1: here's what I do get about your letter. You did,

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Speaker 1: you admitted it. You guys sought help together. And the

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Speaker 1: best thing for you of all of this is that

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Speaker 1: your wife has forgiven you in spite of all of this,

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Speaker 1: and and she's moved on. She had a baby in everything.

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Speaker 1: But you can't seem to move on. You know, you're

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Speaker 1: even thinking negative things about your son one day being

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Speaker 1: a player. You know, we are not doctors, were not psychiatrists,

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Speaker 1: were none of that. We have our opinions and we

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Speaker 1: give our advice on these situations. But you know, you've

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Speaker 1: had counseling. I think you need more. You've seen a psychiatrist.

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Speaker 1: You've been diagnosed, you have prescriptions, you have your meds.

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Speaker 1: Everything's in place for you to now do the right thing. Uh.

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Speaker 1: You know, if there's nothing else medically wrong with you,

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Speaker 1: but that's the hardest thing sometimes to forgive yourself, even

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Speaker 1: if family and God have forgiven you. So I say,

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Speaker 1: you can change if you really want to. You know,

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Speaker 1: if you really want to change, and you don't want

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Speaker 1: is it, man. Yeah, we've been back and I will

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Speaker 1: let you know about all right, Steve, Come on, let's

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Speaker 1: get to part two of your response to today's Strawberry letter.

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Speaker 1: You WoT we do? Man? Right? Okay, here we go,

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Speaker 1: here's the Strawberry letter. That time. I'll try on. Dear Shirley.

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Speaker 1: I listened to your show all the time. How come

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Speaker 1: changes things, then, boo it, Dear Shirley. I listened to

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Speaker 1: I'm a married man of six years. I loved my

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Speaker 1: I mean completely. I don't know what to do now

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Speaker 1: I hadn't even noticed that in the letter. But let's

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Speaker 1: just start at the bottom. Col Cracker. He didn't win

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Speaker 1: that's why me and cheat now because everybody bipolar borderline

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Speaker 1: You don't have setting euphoric burst, and you ain't got

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Speaker 1: the wrong body, Paul, that's what's really wrong into you

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Speaker 1: you can get up off the couch. You quit taking appeals.

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Speaker 1: If you could going to the meeting and to you

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Speaker 1: off all that. I don't care what nobody said. You

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Speaker 1: of this here and the statement you make yes, that's right,

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Speaker 1: like all the other cats out there, I cheated. Hold up.

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Speaker 1: First of all, all men don't cheat. Let me tell

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Speaker 1: you why men cheat. And let me tell you why

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Speaker 1: men don't cheat. First of all, men do not equate

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Speaker 1: sex to commit me. We never have the sec true

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Speaker 1: That ain't man. Look at it that that thing over

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Speaker 1: but just go on a date. Everybody feeds that today. Children,

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Speaker 1: y'all settled down. If somebody teaching that today, kid, I

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Speaker 1: have yet to hear it yet. Cheating is a taught behavior.

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Speaker 1: It is something that boys are talked a whole lot

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