November 26, 2025 • 7 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It is time to ask the clo Our Chief Love Officer,
Steve Harvey is in the building Kenya in Denver Rights.
I'm forty eight years old and I've been married for
eighteen years. My husband started sleeping in his man cave
because he had a bad back. He has a bad
back and our mattress is just too soft. I'm not
(00:20):
sure how a recliner is better for his back, but
I don't want to argue. Why else would he prefer
to sleep in the cold basement alone.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Please help this.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
You got a bad back, He got a bad back,
and to all you need to know is where the
bad back happened?
Speaker 2 (00:39):
When did it?
Speaker 3 (00:40):
Had back happened three years ago? At fifteen? Yeah, ma did.
That's when the marriage started going bad at fifteen. It's
a combination thing. His back really is hurt, and that's
the excuse. Just sleep downstand something about made that bed
and got on his nerves.
Speaker 4 (00:58):
You make his back hurt.
Speaker 5 (01:00):
It ain't the mattress.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Yeah, she said the mattress is too soft, now she.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
That's what he told her. Could it be the mattresses
too tak too soft? Or she is too hard?
Speaker 2 (01:14):
Mm hmm, Well none of them here all right.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
Well, but that's why that's why he in the basement,
and that's why she'd wrote the letter because the answer.
Speaker 4 (01:23):
Ain't in now.
Speaker 5 (01:24):
Yeah, it ain't in the mattress. It ain't in the
rec cloud.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
So what should she do?
Speaker 5 (01:30):
Want to marriage?
Speaker 3 (01:32):
She needs help, get a match and recline and go
down there and be with your hugs.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
Okay, a mattress, recline, get a.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
New mattress, now, he said, a matching recliner.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
I mean that made sense to get a new mattress.
Problem solved. Yeah, but you you're not fit to do
that because you're so busy. Want to know why he
won't get in this soft matter? But then you prefer
the soft mattress over your man next to you.
Speaker 4 (01:59):
Hello, this new discovery.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
So this is her fall.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
No, it ain't fault. It's not her fault at all.
But she don't want to be a part of the solution.
Speaker 4 (02:11):
M hmm.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
So he didn't even tell her. He just started doing it, he.
Speaker 5 (02:17):
Said, because the mattress is too tall. Soft.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
She never even thought to say, well, baby, let's just
get a different mattress. Your man husband back hurting, he
got to go to work. What's af But there.
Speaker 4 (02:27):
I got a bunch of hard mattresses. Dude, this called firm.
Speaker 5 (02:32):
They don't care about their marriage. What they write us
for will kill you.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
Ricky and Saginaw, we're moving on. Rick Saga says.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
My boyfriend and I are looking at houses and the
house will be solely in his name. We're twenty four
years old and have been dating for four years. I
want my name on the paperwork. And he said I
can't be at it. I can be at it if
we get married. When he said if it hurt my feelings,
does that mean marrying me is optional to him?
Speaker 5 (02:59):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (03:00):
Yeah, it is optional to him. They're doing this backwards.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
See your name on the house, that's optional, Your man,
you is optional.
Speaker 4 (03:08):
This is backles.
Speaker 5 (03:10):
You knowing when you're gonna get married is optional.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Right?
Speaker 3 (03:13):
You want your name on the paper on the house
is optional? Everything optional on the him. Don't be stupid, y'all.
Don't buy the house until you get what you want.
When you gonna get what you.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
Want after four years?
Speaker 3 (03:28):
Yeah, and see everybody now, y'all just doing what y'all
want to do when you want to do it. You
ain't got no order and nothing, so you know if
you do things out of order. Everything gonna appear to
be out of order, period.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
Yeah all right, Brandy and Tulsa says, my mother runs
a daycare and I work evenings there. My best friend's
dad has picked up a nine month baby boy twice.
The baby's mother is five years older than me, and
my mom says, I should mind my business? Should I
tell my friend about her dad?
Speaker 3 (03:59):
No, you shouldn't mind, yo, dis This ain't got nothing
to do with you.
Speaker 5 (04:03):
Wow, that's why y'all daycare ain't full.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
Now why.
Speaker 5 (04:16):
You want to take care of baby business? You ain't
mean to take care of nobody else's business.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
Okay, what you're talking about?
Speaker 5 (04:24):
He legally he can pick the baby up. That ain't
your business.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
Listen to your mom and to the clo Brandy and Tulsa.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
You're gonna mess your money up being nosy. That ain't
your business.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
Wow, mom's daycare? Yeah yep, yeah all right.
Speaker 5 (04:43):
The baby and the payments is on time. That's your concern.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
That's your business. Yes, that is her business.
Speaker 5 (04:50):
All right?
Speaker 1 (04:51):
Moving on last one, Steve Tanina and Philly Nina says,
I'm a modern day cougar and my man is twenty
three years younger. I didn't talk him at all last weekend,
and he didn't come by for dinner last Sunday. He
popped up on Tuesday and asked me to pay his
car note. Should I pay it or punish him this month?
Speaker 2 (05:10):
What?
Speaker 5 (05:12):
I don't care what you do? You just I don't
care what you do.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
I don't It's crazy, you stupid.
Speaker 4 (05:21):
He asked this question, cougar.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
What's the difference between the mona day cougar and the
old fashion?
Speaker 4 (05:28):
He ain't trying to tell us how old she is?
Speaker 2 (05:31):
Yeah, the word cougar for one thing.
Speaker 4 (05:33):
Steve Well, he was man Sunday. Why had that question?
Not anything?
Speaker 2 (05:39):
He just popped up.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
He can just put at your house at any time
and need money, and yeah, no boundaries.
Speaker 5 (05:47):
You know who you are.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
Yeah, Mama, sugar mama.
Speaker 5 (05:52):
He'll owe you nothing. He ain't finna give you none.
Y'all ain't going nowhere your car note.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
And marrow?
Speaker 4 (06:01):
You got some? Yeah?
Speaker 6 (06:03):
Tim me like, no, he did good twenty sixteen. He
got something, all right? So should she pay it or
punish him this month? I don't care this month. I
don't care. You don't give a dim I don't about
him or.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
Her yeah, but lady, don't pay it, please, don't pay it?
Speaker 4 (06:28):
Well, have you been paying it? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (06:34):
Which former stupidity? Do you want to talk about it?
New school stupid, old school stupid, because that's the guess.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
Cougar too, Yeah, both of them, Well they didn't really think. Yeah,
they didn't really use that term back in the day,
but you know, it is a modern day term, cougar.
She calls herself a cougar.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
Okay, huh, what else y'all want to talk about?
Speaker 5 (07:00):
Through with that call up? I was through with it.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
When she first wrote in as soon as she read it, Shirley,
I was done. It was nothing to do, I know, yeah,
or pay it?
Speaker 2 (07:13):
Yeah? Yeah, he come up short?
Speaker 5 (07:17):
That you come up short. She don't know what, Shirley.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
She doesn't know that she's being stupid.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
She knows exactly what she is. She can she don
call herself a modern day coopie. She knows exactly what
she is. Should I pay it or punish him?
Speaker 5 (07:33):
Either way? Which one? Which one do you benefit from?
All right?
Speaker 6 (07:37):
But he just gonna go where it was last Harvey
Morning Show
It is time to ask the clo Our Chief Love Officer,
Steve Harvey is in the building Kenya in Denver Rights.
I'm forty eight years old and I've been married for
eighteen years. My husband started sleeping in his man cave
because he had a bad back. He has a bad
back and our mattress is just too soft. I'm not
(00:20):
sure how a recliner is better for his back, but
I don't want to argue. Why else would he prefer
to sleep in the cold basement alone.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Please help this.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
You got a bad back, He got a bad back,
and to all you need to know is where the
bad back happened?
Speaker 2 (00:39):
When did it?
Speaker 3 (00:40):
Had back happened three years ago? At fifteen? Yeah, ma did.
That's when the marriage started going bad at fifteen. It's
a combination thing. His back really is hurt, and that's
the excuse. Just sleep downstand something about made that bed
and got on his nerves.
Speaker 4 (00:58):
You make his back hurt.
Speaker 5 (01:00):
It ain't the mattress.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Yeah, she said the mattress is too soft, now she.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
That's what he told her. Could it be the mattresses
too tak too soft? Or she is too hard?
Speaker 2 (01:14):
Mm hmm, Well none of them here all right.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
Well, but that's why that's why he in the basement,
and that's why she'd wrote the letter because the answer.
Speaker 4 (01:23):
Ain't in now.
Speaker 5 (01:24):
Yeah, it ain't in the mattress. It ain't in the
rec cloud.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
So what should she do?
Speaker 5 (01:30):
Want to marriage?
Speaker 3 (01:32):
She needs help, get a match and recline and go
down there and be with your hugs.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
Okay, a mattress, recline, get a.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
New mattress, now, he said, a matching recliner.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
I mean that made sense to get a new mattress.
Problem solved. Yeah, but you you're not fit to do
that because you're so busy. Want to know why he
won't get in this soft matter? But then you prefer
the soft mattress over your man next to you.
Speaker 4 (01:59):
Hello, this new discovery.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
So this is her fall.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
No, it ain't fault. It's not her fault at all.
But she don't want to be a part of the solution.
Speaker 4 (02:11):
M hmm.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
So he didn't even tell her. He just started doing it, he.
Speaker 5 (02:17):
Said, because the mattress is too tall. Soft.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
She never even thought to say, well, baby, let's just
get a different mattress. Your man husband back hurting, he
got to go to work. What's af But there.
Speaker 4 (02:27):
I got a bunch of hard mattresses. Dude, this called firm.
Speaker 5 (02:32):
They don't care about their marriage. What they write us
for will kill you.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
Ricky and Saginaw, we're moving on. Rick Saga says.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
My boyfriend and I are looking at houses and the
house will be solely in his name. We're twenty four
years old and have been dating for four years. I
want my name on the paperwork. And he said I
can't be at it. I can be at it if
we get married. When he said if it hurt my feelings,
does that mean marrying me is optional to him?
Speaker 5 (02:59):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (03:00):
Yeah, it is optional to him. They're doing this backwards.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
See your name on the house, that's optional, Your man,
you is optional.
Speaker 4 (03:08):
This is backles.
Speaker 5 (03:10):
You knowing when you're gonna get married is optional.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Right?
Speaker 3 (03:13):
You want your name on the paper on the house
is optional? Everything optional on the him. Don't be stupid, y'all.
Don't buy the house until you get what you want.
When you gonna get what you.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
Want after four years?
Speaker 3 (03:28):
Yeah, and see everybody now, y'all just doing what y'all
want to do when you want to do it. You
ain't got no order and nothing, so you know if
you do things out of order. Everything gonna appear to
be out of order, period.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
Yeah all right, Brandy and Tulsa says, my mother runs
a daycare and I work evenings there. My best friend's
dad has picked up a nine month baby boy twice.
The baby's mother is five years older than me, and
my mom says, I should mind my business? Should I
tell my friend about her dad?
Speaker 3 (03:59):
No, you shouldn't mind, yo, dis This ain't got nothing
to do with you.
Speaker 5 (04:03):
Wow, that's why y'all daycare ain't full.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
Now why.
Speaker 5 (04:16):
You want to take care of baby business? You ain't
mean to take care of nobody else's business.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
Okay, what you're talking about?
Speaker 5 (04:24):
He legally he can pick the baby up. That ain't
your business.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
Listen to your mom and to the clo Brandy and Tulsa.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
You're gonna mess your money up being nosy. That ain't
your business.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
Wow, mom's daycare? Yeah yep, yeah all right.
Speaker 5 (04:43):
The baby and the payments is on time. That's your concern.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
That's your business. Yes, that is her business.
Speaker 5 (04:50):
All right?
Speaker 1 (04:51):
Moving on last one, Steve Tanina and Philly Nina says,
I'm a modern day cougar and my man is twenty
three years younger. I didn't talk him at all last weekend,
and he didn't come by for dinner last Sunday. He
popped up on Tuesday and asked me to pay his
car note. Should I pay it or punish him this month?
Speaker 2 (05:10):
What?
Speaker 5 (05:12):
I don't care what you do? You just I don't
care what you do.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
I don't It's crazy, you stupid.
Speaker 4 (05:21):
He asked this question, cougar.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
What's the difference between the mona day cougar and the
old fashion?
Speaker 4 (05:28):
He ain't trying to tell us how old she is?
Speaker 2 (05:31):
Yeah, the word cougar for one thing.
Speaker 4 (05:33):
Steve Well, he was man Sunday. Why had that question?
Not anything?
Speaker 2 (05:39):
He just popped up.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
He can just put at your house at any time
and need money, and yeah, no boundaries.
Speaker 5 (05:47):
You know who you are.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
Yeah, Mama, sugar mama.
Speaker 5 (05:52):
He'll owe you nothing. He ain't finna give you none.
Y'all ain't going nowhere your car note.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
And marrow?
Speaker 4 (06:01):
You got some? Yeah?
Speaker 6 (06:03):
Tim me like, no, he did good twenty sixteen. He
got something, all right? So should she pay it or
punish him this month? I don't care this month. I
don't care. You don't give a dim I don't about
him or.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
Her yeah, but lady, don't pay it, please, don't pay it?
Speaker 4 (06:28):
Well, have you been paying it? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (06:34):
Which former stupidity? Do you want to talk about it?
New school stupid, old school stupid, because that's the guess.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
Cougar too, Yeah, both of them, Well they didn't really think. Yeah,
they didn't really use that term back in the day,
but you know, it is a modern day term, cougar.
She calls herself a cougar.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
Okay, huh, what else y'all want to talk about?
Speaker 5 (07:00):
Through with that call up? I was through with it.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
When she first wrote in as soon as she read it, Shirley,
I was done. It was nothing to do, I know, yeah,
or pay it?
Speaker 2 (07:13):
Yeah? Yeah, he come up short?
Speaker 5 (07:17):
That you come up short. She don't know what, Shirley.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
She doesn't know that she's being stupid.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
She knows exactly what she is. She can she don
call herself a modern day coopie. She knows exactly what
she is. Should I pay it or punish him?
Speaker 5 (07:33):
Either way? Which one? Which one do you benefit from?
All right?
Speaker 6 (07:37):
But he just gonna go where it was last Harvey
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