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Speaker 1: It is Strawberry Letter. Thank you, f you. Subject He's

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Speaker 1: got a weak mind and other things. Dear Stephen Shirley,

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Speaker 1: I've been with my man for about five years and

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Speaker 1: he is a nice, kind hearted Christian man. We met

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Speaker 1: at a work convention and he told me that he

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Speaker 1: was divorced. This is all we have in common. It

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Speaker 1: took me a few years to notice how he's clingy

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Speaker 1: and soft. I hate to call a man weak, but

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Speaker 1: he has no backbone when it comes to putting someone

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Speaker 1: in their place, including me. He is at his mother's

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Speaker 1: beck and call, and she gives him her grocery list

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Speaker 1: every two weeks for him to shop for her. It's

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Speaker 1: okay for him to take care of his mother, but

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Speaker 1: she is able body, and she goes to card games

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Speaker 1: and church so she can go to the grocery store.

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Speaker 1: Then there's our sex life. He's always whimpering and moaning softly,

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Speaker 1: and it's a turn off. I know you're wondering how

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Speaker 1: I stayed with him for so long, and it's because

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Speaker 1: I just started noticing he's weak in bed. I had

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Speaker 1: an affair on him, and I got my back readjusted

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Speaker 1: and my spine aligned in the first two minutes of sex.

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Speaker 1: This was a manly man that talked nasty and did

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Speaker 1: all the things he said he was going to do.

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Speaker 1: Now I'm at home, dazed and confused. Right I'm sorry

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Speaker 1: you had a moment, sor Right now I'm at home

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Speaker 1: dazed and confused, and I don't want my man to

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Speaker 1: and be with the new guy. But he stated up

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Speaker 1: front that he was only in it for the sex.

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Speaker 1: He knows I'm starting to fall for him, so he's

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Speaker 1: been doing extra in the bedroom to get me hooked,

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Speaker 1: and he jokes about it afterwards. I wish there was

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Speaker 1: a way to teach my man all the things this

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Speaker 1: guy knows I asked him if he wants to watch porn,

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Speaker 1: and he asked what has gotten into me? I almost

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Speaker 1: told him what it was, but I held back. Now

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Speaker 1: I can't sleep and I can't get the new guy

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Speaker 1: out of my mind. Should I keep settling from mister

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Speaker 1: Week or just break up with him? How important is

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Speaker 1: sex in a relationship? All right, we're gonna go back

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Speaker 1: just a moment. First of all, what is wrong with

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Speaker 1: getting grocery for his mom? Every two weeks she gives

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Speaker 1: sounds like a good son to me. But you're trying

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Speaker 1: to make it out like he's a mama's boy or something.

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Speaker 1: That's not the case here. It really isn't. And as

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Speaker 1: far as how important sex is, I mean, it's not

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Speaker 1: the most important thing, but it is definitely up there

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Speaker 1: in the top three to five. Okay, whether it's important

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Speaker 1: to us or not is not the issue, though, because

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Speaker 1: it's obviously very very very important to you, and so

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Speaker 1: much so that you've cheated on your man and are

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Speaker 1: considering leaving him for sex, leaving him for a man

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Speaker 1: who told you out of his mouth that all he

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Speaker 1: and now he jokes about it with you. So what

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Speaker 1: That's what you're willing to do. That's stupid. That is

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Speaker 1: That would not be settling, as you call it. It

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Speaker 1: would simply be working on your relationship, as many committed

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Speaker 1: adults do every single day. But you're too busy thing

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Speaker 1: thanking the grass is greener with this other guy, And that,

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Speaker 1: to me, has disaster written all over it for you

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Speaker 1: because he so much has told you he doesn't want you,

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Speaker 1: and you're not gonna change him. You're not, Steve Well,

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Speaker 1: you've been with your man for about five years now.

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Speaker 1: Your subject is he's got a weak mind and other things.

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Speaker 1: How this than lasted five years? You asked me that

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Speaker 1: because he was a kind, nice Christian man. You know

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Speaker 1: But that's all y'all head in common from day one.

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Speaker 1: That's no reason to start a relationship. It took me

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Speaker 1: a few years to notice how he's clingy and soft.

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Speaker 1: I take a few years, but okay, I hate to

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Speaker 1: when it comes to putting somebody in their place, including me.

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Speaker 1: Women don't like that. Women do not like weak men. Okay,

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Speaker 1: he's at his mother's beck and call, and she gives

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Speaker 1: care what Sharley told you. This a mama's boy. He's weak,

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Speaker 1: he's soft, and he clingy, and he had his mama's

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Speaker 1: becking call. This is a mama's boy. And how do

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Speaker 1: you become weak and clingy and soft by hanging up

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Speaker 1: under your mama. He never grew out of it, but

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Speaker 1: Now that's what you got, little soft dude, know the Bible.

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Speaker 1: That's great. But then your next line is, then there's

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Speaker 1: our sex life. He is swear the little scriptures and

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Speaker 1: He all up in the Book of Ruth, and nobody

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Speaker 1: into it right after this. You're listening show, all right,

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Speaker 1: Come on, Steve, let's recap today Strawberry letter. The subject

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Speaker 1: he's got a weak mind and other things. Yeah, this

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Speaker 1: and other things. They've been together five years. The only

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Speaker 1: Took us some years to Notice he's clinging soft but

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Speaker 1: And now we're dealing with a mama's boy. Then here

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Speaker 1: that's what she got. This what mama's boys do. They whippering,

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Speaker 1: They moan, and he's weak in bad. Now here we go.

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Speaker 1: I hadn't to fawn on him. And in one affair,

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Speaker 1: listen to what happened doing this affair. You ready for this,

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Speaker 1: because this boy wouldn't have been here weekend in moaning

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Speaker 1: This boy right, he'll was laning it. Don't want This

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Speaker 1: y'all asked me a long time ago, what is the

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Speaker 1: It was, do what you say you're gonna do. Everybody

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Speaker 1: just that. Because you weren't dealing with this little weekends boy,

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Speaker 1: don't want my man to touch me. Now. You don't

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Speaker 1: So now I want badly to leave my boyfriend and

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Speaker 1: I'm starting to fall from him. So he's just been

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Speaker 1: it's not. I can just tell you that right now,

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Speaker 1: You have smart men, you have dumb men, you got

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Speaker 1: good men, you got bad men. You got a weak one.

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Speaker 1: You said it, and you're not. He's not going to

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Speaker 1: come up here and do this here. I asked him

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Speaker 1: what's gotten into you. Well, I could have told him

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Speaker 1: what they got into you? Thor thor fuck the god

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Speaker 1: what got into you. Now I can't sleep and I

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Speaker 1: can't get the new guy out of my mind. Should

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Speaker 1: I keep settling for mister weak or just break up

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Speaker 1: with it? How important is sex in the relationship? Well,

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Speaker 1: I don't see how you're gonna stay with him because

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Speaker 1: your mind is my mind. My bod is here with you,

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Speaker 1: but my mind is on the other side of time.

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Speaker 1: Come home, Oh messing me around? See you can't keep

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Speaker 1: sex in the relationship? Well it's not number one because

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Speaker 1: the most important thing in the relationship is love. But

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