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May 27, 2025 13 mins

The Strawberry Letter heard on The Steve Harvey Morning Show Tuesday, May 27th, 2025: "Can We Please Close The Door First?"

A woman writes in because she has had it with her husband always leaving the door open. Seriously...always. Listen for the letter and Steve & Shirley's responses.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It is time now for today's Strawberry Letter, and if
you need advice on relationships, work, sex, parenting, and more,
please submit your Strawberry Letter to STEVEHARBFM dot com by
clicking submit Strawberry Letter. We could be reading your letter
live on the air, just like we're going to read
this one right here, right now, And you never know,
it could be yours.

Speaker 2 (00:19):
It could be yours, So buckle up and hold on tight.
We got it for it you here. It is Strawberry.

Speaker 3 (00:24):
Let up, Thank you, nephew.

Speaker 1 (00:26):
Subject. Can we please close the door first? Dear Stephen Shirley,
I'm married to a caveman and he invades my space
all day every day. We've been together for eight years
and married for four years. We work from home and
we were sharing our home office until I moved my
desk into the fouryer to get away from him. As

(00:47):
soon as you walk in our front door, my desk
is right there. It looks junkie, but I'm willing to
endure the mess over having him in my personal space
all day. When he's not working, he's on the phone
gossiping with one of his friends or co workers, and
he talked so loudly that I can't get work done.
I've asked him to please keep the door closed when

(01:09):
he's on calls. He won't do it. He said, when
he's closed, the room gets cold. I want to go
rent off his space elsewhere, but my company won't pay
for it. The funny part is that he knows he's
dancing on my last nerve and he doesn't care. He
uses the bathroom with the door open, and he loves
to strike up a conversation with me, so I've banned

(01:29):
him from using the toilet in our bedroom. He has
to use the one down the hall since he does
not know how to shut doors. I usually walk down
the hall sprang air freshener as I go. He thinks
it's funny. Last weekend, his sister and her new boyfriend
stayed overnight with us. My husband still didn't close the
bathroom door.

Speaker 3 (01:49):
He left it cracked.

Speaker 1 (01:50):
When he used it and said it's his sisters, so
it's no big deal. When we went to bed, I
locked our bedroom doors since we had company. We ended
up having sex later that night, and right afterwards I
noticed that our bedroom door was cracked once again. He
said that the room is colder when the door is closed.
I'm sure his sister heard us having sex. Why is

(02:12):
my husband like this? And can he be fixed or not?
I don't know that's your husband. That's a question really
only you can answer. You've been with this man for
eight years, so you know him better than anyone. He
didn't just start doing this. I'm sure this has been
going on for quite some time. You know, you talk
about him invading your space and talking loud and gossiping

(02:34):
and leaving doors open all that. The big question is why,
I mean, why have you put up with it for
this long? I mean, and why doesn't he like to
close the doors? No one needs to know what's going
on in the bathroom but the person using it period.

Speaker 3 (02:48):
This is rude.

Speaker 1 (02:49):
I mean, really, this is really rude. It's not funny.
It's just nasty. It has nothing to do with temperature,
with it being cold. If it's too cold, he could
put a coat on, he could put a sweater on, whatever,
you know, to warm himself up. Well, what is he
talking about? I don't even get that part. It's not sexy.
I'm surprised you can even still have sex with him.
After smelling all of that. You walk down the hall

(03:10):
with air freshener. I hope you bring some of that
air freshener to the bedroom. I don't know, ew ew
ew ew Steve, I.

Speaker 2 (03:19):
Don't really know.

Speaker 4 (03:20):
Yeah, I don't even know what to say about this letter.
First of all, I would like to say on behalf
of Shirley and myself.

Speaker 2 (03:28):
We we do not care at all.

Speaker 4 (03:33):
We don't, we don't, we don't care. There's nothing in
this letter that I care about. I don't care about
your husband. I don't care about these doz oh, I
don't care about you being mad. And let's just go
down on the letter and so I can show you why.
And nobody listening to this letter cares. I married to

(03:54):
a kve man. He invaded my space all day every day.
We've been together eight years and married for four years.
We work from home, and when we're sharing our home
office until I move my desk into the fourier to
get away from him, we don't care.

Speaker 2 (04:10):
As soon as you walk in out front door, my
desk is right there.

Speaker 4 (04:13):
He looks junkie, but I'm willing to endure a mess
over having him in my personal space all day.

Speaker 2 (04:20):
We don't care. But he's not working.

Speaker 4 (04:23):
He's on the phone, gossiping with one of his friends
or co workers. Then he talks so loud that I
can't get the work done. We we just don't care.
I've asked him to please keep your door closed when
he's on call. He won't do it, he said, when
it's closed, the room get too cold.

Speaker 2 (04:42):
Again, we don't care.

Speaker 4 (04:49):
I want to go rind off the space elsewhere, but
my company won't pay for it.

Speaker 2 (04:54):
Well, why should they? You work from home?

Speaker 4 (04:56):
Hell, if you work from home, that's because they don't
have a you down at the office, So how would
they rent you an office space? Now they don't care.
They're not caring about you, and your husband's going all
over the place right now.

Speaker 2 (05:16):
The funny part is, oh, right here, here we go.

Speaker 4 (05:18):
Now this is wild, light up well love with people
who don't do comedy. Start writing a letter and want
to introduce me to comedy. The funny part is here
we go that he knows he's dancing on my last
nerve and he don't care. Oh wait a minute, hold up,

(05:38):
we don't care. The people at the office don't care,
and now he don't care. All we need is for
you to join in and not care, and we'll have
succeeded the complete circle. He uses the bathroom with the
do open, and he loves to strike up a conversation
with me. Now this is the part where I do care. Yeah, see,

(06:03):
now you got caught. I this the funny part to me.
When he used a bathroom, he don't close the door.

Speaker 3 (06:11):
Oh, you need.

Speaker 4 (06:13):
To buy a BB gun. That's what you need to do. Huh,
she need to buy a BB gun. Every time he
in there with the door over, he can walk off
by and just shoot it the b cut. Don't shoot
him in the face of nothing like that, just in
the body, you know, because you have your knees on you.
He had your elbows on your knees. When you're in
the bathroom, you be reading the magazine. It's five B

(06:35):
being the stomach or something.

Speaker 3 (06:37):
Hang on, Steve, we'll have your heart.

Speaker 2 (06:39):
Oh but don't nobody really give it him of.

Speaker 1 (06:42):
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(07:24):
fifty four hundred or globelifradio dot com. All right, come on, Steve,
let's recap today's strawberry letter. The subject is can we
please close the door first?

Speaker 4 (07:35):
Well, this is a letter of nobody cares. When we
found out, we don't come here. Sherley, don't care about
this letter. Tommy said something to me on the commercial break.
He don't care about the letter. Nobody cares about this letter.
They married a couple of work from home, and she'd
have moved her desk into the foyer because she don't
want to share off of him because he works from
home through after COVID.

Speaker 2 (07:54):
We don't care.

Speaker 4 (07:55):
He talks on the phone all day, gossip, been talking
loud with coworkers. We don't care. I've asked him to
keep the door closed when he on calls. He don't care.
We don't care, he say. The reason he do it
is because the room get too cold. He won't do it,
then he anyway. I want to go rent office space elsewhere,
but my company won't pay for it. Now that's why

(08:17):
they call it working from home. See if it's called
working from home, why would the company rich you some
office space, You ain't working from home no more.

Speaker 2 (08:24):
Hell if they didn't want it.

Speaker 4 (08:25):
If they wanted you to work now from home, they
had you come back down there to the company. But
they don't want town. Now the company would prefer talking
to you from your house. I don't think a lot
of people like this native any part. The funny part
is then she tries to introduce comedy. The funny part
is he know he's dancing on my last nerve and
he don't care.

Speaker 2 (08:45):
So now he know nobody care anyway. So I banned
him from using the toilet.

Speaker 4 (08:49):
And now also he don't He used the bathroom with
the door open, and he loves to strike up a
conversation with me, So I banned him from using the
toilet in our bedroom. He usually the one down the
hallway since he don't know how to shut it. I
usually have to walk down the hallways praying air freshly
as I go. So he in the hallway with the door. Okay,
let me just explain some to you, because this let
us get more and more ridiculous. His sister came to

(09:10):
visit with her new boyfriend, and my husband still didn't
close the bathroom door. He left it cracked when he
used it, said his sister, because I say, he can't
believe us if.

Speaker 3 (09:19):
The new boyfriend.

Speaker 4 (09:21):
Anyway, when we went to bed, we locked our door
since we had company. We ended up having sex later
and right afterwards I noticed that our bedroom door was
cracked once again. He said that the room is colder
when the door is closed. I'm sure his sister hurt
us having sex. And why is my husband like this?
And what can he be fixed or not? I don't
really know what's happening with Then your husband has need

(09:44):
some help.

Speaker 2 (09:45):
He has lonely issues. He got to be around somebody
all the time.

Speaker 4 (09:48):
Your husband may be a bit of an exhibitionist because
he like everybody to see what he doing and hear
what he's doing all the time.

Speaker 2 (09:55):
The boyfriend definitely said something.

Speaker 4 (09:57):
He probably gonna break up with your sister after their
and I don't really know what's wrong. I don't know
why you married him, and I don't does he have
any good qualities at all? So I've decided to just
do a reenactment of what's going on. I'm the husband.
I'm in the bathroom. Sureley, you're the wife, and I
got the door open and I'm using the bathroom.

Speaker 2 (10:21):
You can you hear me?

Speaker 1 (10:23):
Yes, I can hear you, and I don't want to, honey.
Would you please just close the door.

Speaker 3 (10:31):
I don't need to hear it.

Speaker 2 (10:32):
I can't reach your door.

Speaker 4 (10:36):
Let me.

Speaker 5 (10:38):
Hold up, Hold up, it's not this again.

Speaker 4 (10:48):
But what did you put on them oxtails?

Speaker 3 (10:54):
They were fine? They were fine. That's not that.

Speaker 2 (11:00):
You don't cook it?

Speaker 3 (11:03):
Okay, about like you'll be drunk about cooking. I tried.
I don't like this. Angle close the door, ray very
stop calling me?

Speaker 4 (11:23):
What?

Speaker 6 (11:24):
Go and help me?

Speaker 2 (11:25):
Two tius and.

Speaker 3 (11:29):
I can't tell me you too much?

Speaker 5 (11:34):
What if you wanted the bitch pools after after drawing,
just throwing in, stop.

Speaker 1 (11:42):
Coming anywhere near you and close the doorpoon No, that's
my good spoon, No nasty.

Speaker 6 (11:53):
Don't get the worm spoon they have Okay, redlar food
and throw it to me.

Speaker 3 (12:00):
Close the door. You're on your own, okay, I.

Speaker 4 (12:03):
Close the door.

Speaker 6 (12:04):
How you're gonna hear it? Give me a hot couple
of coffee.

Speaker 2 (12:08):
I need.

Speaker 6 (12:09):
I needn't coffee in he.

Speaker 3 (12:11):
No you don't like my cookie.

Speaker 1 (12:13):
No, no, you ain't got to cook the coffee.

Speaker 5 (12:16):
It's just on the got some soldiers in there, to
a couple of soldiers, so no, hold up, don't get
the bringing Maxwell House.

Speaker 3 (12:24):
In Hills some troubling.

Speaker 6 (12:27):
I didn't Maxwell House for the old coffee.

Speaker 4 (12:34):
Ray back?

Speaker 6 (12:35):
What ba rain me some raisin prayer from your glass
and brood.

Speaker 4 (12:49):
Your hair up.

Speaker 3 (12:50):
I'm calling me. No, I'm not coming in there.

Speaker 6 (12:55):
What's happening in hill?

Speaker 1 (12:57):
I don't want to know?

Speaker 6 (12:59):
Close the door frameless and pray.

Speaker 3 (13:04):
What is that gonna? Don't I know?

Speaker 2 (13:07):
You don't want to do that private or new.

Speaker 6 (13:11):
I'm not coming in the prisoner glass of Madame News.
You got that new stuff up favorite.

Speaker 3 (13:20):
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Speaker 1 (13:28):
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