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Speaker 1: like we're gonna read this one right here, right now.

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Speaker 1: Could be yours. Yeah, bugle lupat, hold on tight, We

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Speaker 1: got it for you. Here. He is the Strawberry Letter.

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Speaker 1: Thank you, nephew. Subject he won't stay out up my stuff.

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Speaker 1: Dear Stephen Shirley, I'm a forty six year old married

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Speaker 1: woman and this is my second marriage. When I was

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Speaker 1: dating my new husband, he'd love wearing my house shoes

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Speaker 1: around the house, even though his feet hang off the back.

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Speaker 1: Then he started wearing my bathrobe until I got him

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Speaker 1: a big compy one like I have. I'm not even

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Speaker 1: a big woman, so it had to be uncomfortable. The

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Speaker 1: moment we moved in together, he was in everything of mine.

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Speaker 1: He plunders and goes through my stuff, and I'll find

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Speaker 1: important things misplaced because he's used them. I can't ever

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Speaker 1: He's growing his hair out, so he wears these little

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Speaker 1: knowing twists in his head, and he uses all of

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Speaker 1: my shampoo, conditioner, and styling products because he needs his

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Speaker 1: hair moisturizers moisturized, or so he says. I have encouraged

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Speaker 1: him many times to go to Walmart and get his

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Speaker 1: use mine. When I started a diet, he ate all

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Speaker 1: and no matter how much I yell and scream at him,

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Speaker 1: it's like living with a child. My own kids don't

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Speaker 1: biggest problem. He likes to spoon every night, and it

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Speaker 1: was cute at first, but now it's a problem because

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Speaker 1: once again he's in my stuff. Yes, he has to

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Speaker 1: have his hand on it to fall asleep. Can you

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Speaker 1: imagine how awkward this is for me? He's all in

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Speaker 1: my space and in my stuff day and night. How

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Speaker 1: causing a big rift in my marriage? I should have

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Speaker 1: stopped it from the beginning. What do I do now? Holy?

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Speaker 1: Holy wha? Yeah, you should have stopped it in the beginning.

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Speaker 1: I don't know. At first I thought this letter was

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Speaker 1: going to be about cross dressing, and then it just

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Speaker 1: kind of changed for me. You didn't stop him in

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Speaker 1: course worse things in life, but he is like a

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Speaker 1: spoiled brad kid. He's all over the place. What did

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Speaker 1: He's also lazy, He's disrespectful, he's inconsiderate. He's selfish. I

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Speaker 1: mean lazy because he won't get his own hair products.

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Speaker 1: That's simple, you know, like you say, just go down

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Speaker 1: to the walmart and pick yourself up something. Disrespectful, he's

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Speaker 1: find him when you're looking for him. You've asked him

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Speaker 1: to stop. He won't. He's inconsiderate, selfish, he doesn't care

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Speaker 1: how this makes you feel. He's just walking all over

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Speaker 1: you with no What is with this guy? He needs

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Speaker 1: to understand that even in marriage there are boundaries there.

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Speaker 1: Just there's boundaries everywhere. Your spouse needs to still be

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Speaker 1: it is very childish and stupid. I agree with you there.

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Speaker 1: So I say treat him like a child and put

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Speaker 1: No spooning, No hands on your stuff like you say,

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Speaker 1: this time. I say, stopped putting yourself second, stand up

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Speaker 1: for yourself. You've gotta you know, you scream and yell

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Speaker 1: him get away with this stuff. Steve, Surely you're saying

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Speaker 1: And after reading the whole letter, I still think the

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Speaker 1: you forty six year old married woman, this is your

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Speaker 1: I can't even put my toes in Margree's house shoes.

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Speaker 1: This don't sound familiar to you. Just don't sound like

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Speaker 1: a story we've heard any news recently over the Yes,

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Speaker 1: I'm not. I'm just making you aware of a familiar

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Speaker 1: clues right afternoon. We'll have part two of Steve's response

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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, and so

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Speaker 1: we can finish up your funds. He won't stay out

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Speaker 1: This ain't common for us. That's in marriages and relationship.

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Speaker 1: But when you hit this, it reeks a familiarity. It's

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Speaker 1: your husband. He loves walking around the house and your stuff. Now,

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Speaker 1: Shirley saying, at first she thought this letter was about

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Speaker 1: on letter through and I'm explaining to you, wife, got

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Speaker 1: And you just said he plunders through everything you got.

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Speaker 1: It's more to this story right here, lady. I can't

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Speaker 1: I ain't never heard that before, but I know someone

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Speaker 1: have more clues. He's growing his how. Oh that's all

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Speaker 1: the sign. He's growing his hal. So he wears he's

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Speaker 1: little annoyed and twisting his head. And he used all

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Speaker 1: his hair moisturizers. So he said, he's growing his how.

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Speaker 1: He using your nail products, he wears your clothes, and

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Speaker 1: write in on Steve Harvey. I'm too smart for this hire.

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Speaker 1: But all I am asking you is this don't sound

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Speaker 1: You know he could be got still got these hot

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Speaker 1: I'm not fit to do say nobody's name but be

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Speaker 1: talking about nobody lifestyle. That ain't my bugs. You do

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Speaker 1: all this here, I'm just saying, now, let's try to

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Speaker 1: not touch my things. I need him learn to keep

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Speaker 1: be very uncost. You know, I'm gonna tell you. I'm like, now,

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Speaker 1: You don't get your damn hands over there on yourself?

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Speaker 1: What You're not fooling me? And I'm trying to goas

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Speaker 1: me and you and him, you following me, and I'm

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Speaker 1: Get your nails, Get your nails. Can you imagine how

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