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Speaker 1: Time now for today's Strawberry Letter. And if you need

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Speaker 1: advice on relationships, sex, parenting, dating, work and more. Please

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Speaker 1: on the air, just like we're gonna read this one

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Speaker 1: right here. Huh, right now today? Yes, right, buckle up,

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Speaker 1: hold on tight, We got it for you here. It

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Speaker 1: is the Strawberry Letter subject. She gave him exactly what

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Speaker 1: he wanted. Dear Stephen Shirley, I've been with my boyfriend

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Speaker 1: for eleven years, and he's eleven years younger than I am.

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Speaker 1: When we met, I had two children from a previous marriage,

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Speaker 1: and he said he always wanted to have his own

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Speaker 1: children together, and now I can't have kids. I suspected

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Speaker 1: that women his age would eventually get his attention, but

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Speaker 1: I never expected him to cheat on me. Multiple times

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Speaker 1: I caught him texting and calling a female and he lied.

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Speaker 1: I call a young woman to talk to her. She

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Speaker 1: told me that she has a newborn baby only four

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Speaker 1: days old, and it's my boyfriend's child. My boyfriend admitted

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Speaker 1: take one. Well, we found out that it is his baby,

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Speaker 1: and now I have to figure out how to make

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Speaker 1: that he has a son. Finally, I'm jealous for two reasons.

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Speaker 1: First because he cheated and the woman is beautiful and

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Speaker 1: has her own business, and she's been nothing but respectful

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Speaker 1: to me because she didn't know about me. I'm also

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Speaker 1: jealous because he has a son, and I know that

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Speaker 1: this bond with the baby may be stronger than what

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Speaker 1: we have. I did not feel good in the beginning

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Speaker 1: about dating a much younger man, but I could not

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Speaker 1: help who I fell in love with. My boyfriend keeps

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Speaker 1: trying to reassure me that the baby doesn't change how

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Speaker 1: he feels about me. He has asked me to marry

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Speaker 1: him him and I told him yes, but I feel

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Speaker 1: he could have with the baby and the baby's mom.

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Speaker 1: I feel like the best thing would be to let

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Speaker 1: him go, but at times I want to be selfish

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Speaker 1: and keep him for myself. What should I do? Wow? Now, yeah, now,

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Speaker 1: didn't you just say that he cheated on you, not one,

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Speaker 1: not two, but multiple times, and he has a baby

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Speaker 1: with another woman, a baby that now you can't give

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Speaker 1: him the whole paternity test thing that was a joke.

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Speaker 1: I mean, he knew that baby was his all along.

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Speaker 1: He knew it. He wanted to wait until the baby

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Speaker 1: and the mama could take it. Yeah, he already knew.

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Speaker 1: And please do not make excuses for him. This has

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Speaker 1: nothing to do with your eleven year age difference. Don't

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Speaker 1: don't do that to yourself because you've been with him

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Speaker 1: for eleven years. This is just a no good, cheating

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Speaker 1: guy you have on your hands. I mean, after eleven years,

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Speaker 1: he's just now asking you to marry him. Get out

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Speaker 1: of here with that one. Why now? Could it be

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Speaker 1: because he cheated and got caught. Now there's a baby

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Speaker 1: involved in all of that, and you said that you

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Speaker 1: got to figure out how to make the baby a

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Speaker 1: part of your family. That is really sweet of you.

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Speaker 1: I mean, you know you're a good woman here. I

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Speaker 1: just you know, I think you're better off without him, Okay,

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Speaker 1: I just think that I don't think you should wait

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Speaker 1: way better. That's what I think. This guy's no good.

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Speaker 1: He's a cheater and he's done it multiple times. Leave him, Steve.

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Speaker 1: I see a very delusional letter here. The subject. She

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Speaker 1: gave him exactly what he wanted. You've been with your

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Speaker 1: boyfriend for eleven years. Who is somebody? Boyfriend and girlfriend

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Speaker 1: for eleven years, and he's eleven years younger than I am.

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Speaker 1: What that's when we met. I had two children from

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Speaker 1: previous marriage. He said they always wanted to have his

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Speaker 1: Y'all never got around to getting married together. Y'all never

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Speaker 1: And I suspected that women in his age would eventually

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Speaker 1: that's what it happened. But I never expected him to

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Speaker 1: keep calling all these women young and all this hell.

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Speaker 1: She told me she has a new born baby, only

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Speaker 1: four days old, and it's your boyfriend's child. Then the

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Speaker 1: the baby could take one, as soon as her innovator.

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Speaker 1: You just need one person, now, he don't need both

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Speaker 1: days after yeah, stop that, shut up, just cotton in

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Speaker 1: your mouth, pee on this stick. Boy. Well, we found

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Speaker 1: how to make this child part of our family. What family, lady,

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Speaker 1: what family are you talking about? You ain't got no family,

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Speaker 1: that ain't your husband. Yep, No, I got to figure

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Speaker 1: I'll come back, I get you. There was all right.

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Speaker 1: Part two of Steve's response coming up at twenty three

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Speaker 1: minutes after the hour Today's Strawberry Letters subject. She gave

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Speaker 1: him exactly what he wanted. We'll get back into it

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Speaker 1: right after this. You're listening show, All right, Steve, come on,

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Speaker 1: let's recap today's Strawberry Letters subject. She gave him a

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Speaker 1: exactly what he wanted. This lady got this boyfriend. They've

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Speaker 1: been dating for eleven years. He eleven years younger than

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Speaker 1: she is. She got two kids from previous marriage, but

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Speaker 1: he told her you always want to have a child

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Speaker 1: because they ain't really had no relationship, and now she

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Speaker 1: his age will eventually get his attention. That ain't that

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Speaker 1: they had his attention back when you first got married though.

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Speaker 1: Now I ain't married David, but I never expected him

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Speaker 1: cheat on me multiple times, you know, one or two

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Speaker 1: your boyfriend's baby. Then your boyfriend turned around and said, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I had sex with him, but I want the paternity

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Speaker 1: take one. No, no, dog, listen to me. You don't

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Speaker 1: the paternity tests with the baby. You don't see one

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Speaker 1: thing about you know it's her baby. We all know

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Speaker 1: that it's her baby. It's hup. Your your girlfriend, your

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Speaker 1: need a paternity test for her. It's the baby. See,

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Speaker 1: everybody know her. She the one told everybody that the

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Speaker 1: baby was yours. So now you got the paternity test.

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Speaker 1: It's your damn baby now, the lady said, once we

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Speaker 1: find out that it's his baby, now I got to

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Speaker 1: our family. What family you talking about? You don't have.

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Speaker 1: I have a family. Your family is them two kids.

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Speaker 1: This dude that's eleven years younger than you, he creating

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Speaker 1: another family somewhere else. Now, it's gonna mess your children

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Speaker 1: up when they don't seem no more, But you gotta

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Speaker 1: tell him he got another family somewhere. Now, your boyfriend

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Speaker 1: is overjoyed that he finally has a son. And I'm

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Speaker 1: jealous for two reasons. First cause he cheated, Okay, so

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Speaker 1: you just jealous about that. And the woman is beautiful

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Speaker 1: and has her own business, and she has been nothing

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Speaker 1: but respectful to me because she didn't know about me,

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Speaker 1: so he didn't lie to everybody. Do y'all live together?

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Speaker 1: Do you get that in this letter that they live together?

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Speaker 1: Her and the boyfriend? Yeah? I think they do live

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Speaker 1: then't really mean they live because she ain't know nothing

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Speaker 1: the sun, and I know that this bond with the baby,

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Speaker 1: he's stronger than what we have. You keep talking about

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Speaker 1: what y'all got? What are you talking about? Yes, the

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Speaker 1: baby's bond is gonna be stronger than the one you got.

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Speaker 1: He loved a baby. Now he overjoyed. He ain't overjoyed

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Speaker 1: with you no more. See, let's just keep it real.

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Speaker 1: This bond you keep creating, this bond. I do not

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Speaker 1: the baby doesn't change how he feels about you, But now,

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Speaker 1: how does he feel about you? Because he didn't cheated

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Speaker 1: on your multiple times? He ain't asked you to marry

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Speaker 1: him easy eleven years younger, and he got another family somewhere. Hell, know,

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Speaker 1: the baby ain't gonna change how he feel about you.

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Speaker 1: What do he feel about you? It's in this for you, sister.

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Speaker 1: He has asked me to marry him, and I told

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Speaker 1: him yes, But I feel like I'd be in the way. Lady,

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Speaker 1: lady lay this little dude just trying to hang on

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Speaker 1: to everything. He's overjoyed with his son. Did chick fine,

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Speaker 1: beautiful gut of business? He didn't ask you to marry

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Speaker 1: him and you told him yes, you got a ring?

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Speaker 1: Or did he just ask you because he he ain't

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Speaker 1: this new baby. But I feel like I'd be in

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Speaker 1: the way of a great life he could have with

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Speaker 1: you know that's where his head is at. True, I

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Speaker 1: feel like the best thing would be to let him go.

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Speaker 1: Me too, surely do too, But at times I want

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Speaker 1: to be selfish and keep him for yourself. You've never

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Speaker 1: had him for yourself, see, System, He'd been with a

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Speaker 1: Ye See, I want to be selfish and keep him

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Speaker 1: for myself. You've had eleven years to have him to

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Speaker 1: yourself and they ain't had him to yourself yet. He's

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Speaker 1: not yours and he don't want to be yours. So System,

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Speaker 1: pull yourself together. Stop creating a relationship that ain't there.

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Speaker 1: Quit talking about this bond that this man going to

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Speaker 1: be with that family. You take your time, move on

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Speaker 1: after the hour, our girl from the Talk will be here,

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Speaker 1: Cheryl Underwood. Right after this, you're listening to The Stave

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