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Speaker 1: All right time now, guys for today's Strawberry Letter. If

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Speaker 1: like we're reading this one right right, m answer right

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Speaker 1: it for you here. It is the Strawberry let us subject.

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Speaker 1: If you don't get yo mama, That's what it says

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Speaker 1: in the title. If you don't get yo mama, I

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Speaker 1: will steveson. Dear Stephen Shirley. I have found the man

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Speaker 1: of my dreams and we've been together for five years.

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Speaker 1: We have one child together, and I'm pregnant with our

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Speaker 1: second child. Our relationship is great, but my boyfriend's mother

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Speaker 1: is a huge problem, and I'm fed up with her

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Speaker 1: inserting herself into every aspect of our lives. She comments

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Speaker 1: and how we pair and our finances, my decorating style,

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Speaker 1: how I cook, and my housekeeping skills. Recently, our child

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Speaker 1: better care of her grandchild. My child is young, and

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Speaker 1: she constantly critiques him, which makes him not like her

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Speaker 1: very much. Last week, she told me that she hopes

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Speaker 1: the new baby is not a bret like my toddler.

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Speaker 1: My boyfriend seems to overlook her insults when she goes

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Speaker 1: her telling him that he's a sorry excuse for a man.

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Speaker 1: I have told her that her behavior is unacceptable, and

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Speaker 1: and constructive criticism because we're young and don't know anything. Stephen, Shirley,

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Speaker 1: we are in our early thirties and we can take

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Speaker 1: care of ourselves. I'm starting to think that she might

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Speaker 1: be right about my boyfriend being sorry because he won't

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Speaker 1: talk to her about her foul mouth and bad attitude.

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Speaker 1: I have told him that she is no longer welcome

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Speaker 1: How can I get this man to step up and

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Speaker 1: get his mom in check? Please advise, all right, First

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Speaker 1: of all, let me tell you this. Not welcoming her

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Speaker 1: relationship with the new baby, that's kind of harsh. Okay,

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Speaker 1: now is your boyfriend and mama's boy I have to

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Speaker 1: say yes to that. I have to say also that

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Speaker 1: you're right, your man should be checking his mom in

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Speaker 1: a respectful way. She is too messy, she is too

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Speaker 1: involved in your relationship, she's too petty. She does need

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Speaker 1: to get her some business. I'm in agreement with all

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Speaker 1: of that. But unless he says something to her, she's

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Speaker 1: not gonna she's not gonna pull up. You've already said something.

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Speaker 1: But you're right, you don't need this kind of stress

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Speaker 1: in your last trimester of your pregnancy. But but how

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Speaker 1: dare she though? I mean, what's what's all this disrespect?

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Speaker 1: Has this been going on for the entire five years?

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Speaker 1: I can't believe you guys have allowed it to go

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Speaker 1: fact that you guys aren't married Five years, two kids later,

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Speaker 1: that's a lot. Maybe you know she might be messy

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Speaker 1: and all of that, you know with her ways and everything,

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Speaker 1: but she might also be old school and she wants

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Speaker 1: you to to stop having children and making you know,

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Speaker 1: coming from. Just something to think about there, Steve. The

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Speaker 1: The mama is way out of line now. With that

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Speaker 1: But Shirley hid it. That's a mama's boy now, and

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Speaker 1: He doesn't even have to be a mama's boy because

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Speaker 1: It's this helth of crazy. That's how you get a

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Speaker 1: right here, this health of right here. She ain't happy

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Speaker 1: This is old old battle acts. Last week she told

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Speaker 1: She's just a nasty person. My boyfriend seems to overlook

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Speaker 1: It so you know, let's get some of these fingers

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Speaker 1: pointing at you. I told her that her behavior is unacceptable,

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Speaker 1: and she said that she's just given us much needed

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Speaker 1: you ain't happy with yourself. He says, she's doing that

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Speaker 1: because you're young and you don't know anything. Stephen, Shirley,

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Speaker 1: We're in our early thirties and we can take care

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Speaker 1: about my boyfriend being sorry. Okay, she's winning now, want

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Speaker 1: she gets you over there? Leaning that that right there?

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Speaker 1: She winning. Don't let her do it. You'll do Day's sorry.

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Speaker 1: He just won't talk to her about her fire mouth

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Speaker 1: He grew up with her, her bad attitude and file mouth.

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Speaker 1: He grew up with it. He don't even here no more.

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Speaker 1: It's the norm for him. This is new to you.

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Speaker 1: So what you're tripping on he's made the adjustment to

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Speaker 1: he don't even hear her. Wow, he's been cut her out.

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Speaker 1: All right, Steve, hang on, we'll have part two of

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Speaker 1: your response to today's Strubberry letter. If you don't get

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Speaker 1: your mama, I will at twenty three after the hour,

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Speaker 1: right after you're listening. All right, Come on, Steve, let's

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Speaker 1: recap today's Strubberry letter. If you don't get your mama recapped.

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Speaker 1: The old mama is an old battle axe. She's not happy.

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Speaker 1: She better. She evil. She don't like nothing. She debased

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Speaker 1: Talk about you hoping the new baby. Ain't like just

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Speaker 1: starting to think she might be right about my boyfriend

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Speaker 1: being sid He's not. He's just used to her because

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Speaker 1: Once again, because he used to her. He grew up

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Speaker 1: knew baker. Okay, that's not cool. I got she ain't

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Speaker 1: cool at all. But two wrongs ain't gonna make it right.

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Speaker 1: wrong as she is, it's still his mama. He loved them.

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Speaker 1: don't know. You know, he's got to sit his mom

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Speaker 1: Who she's right, she doesn't need that kind of stress. No,

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Speaker 1: she don't. Your main concern is the healthy you'll bake. Absolutely. Yeah. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: And where where's the dad? Where's her husband? She doesn't

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Speaker 1: it's harsh if she doesn't want her in the new

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Speaker 1: have to work. Yeah, yeah, she called him a brat, right, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: she's she's a mean, mean one mama right there. Man?

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, but you're right, he probably tuned her out.

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Speaker 1: Oh he don't even Yeah, but does she just walk

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