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Speaker 2 (00:20):
All right, ladies and gentlemen, it is time for the
Strawberry Letter with my good friend Shirley Strawberry.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
Thank you, my good friend, Junior. Subject do I need
to keep these two apart? Dear Stephen Shirley, My husband
and I have been together for a total of eleven
years and married for seven years. He's younger than me
by four years. When we met, I had a seventeen
year old daughter. He does not have children, and I
wasn't willing to have any more children, so he said
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he just treat my child like she's his child. My
daughter's dad passed away, so it worked out. I spoiled
my child because I didn't want her to miss out
by having both parents. She was very fond of her
stepdad and they did things without me all of the time.
The only problem is that he is still very much
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involved in her life and she's almost thirty. I feel
like it's gone from parental admiration to something else.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
She's always called.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
Him by his name, and now she has a nickname
for him, and he acts like her man instead of
her stepfather. He's my daughter's handyman and housekeeper. He will
clean our house and then he'll go tidy up my
daughter's place. Saturday, he told me he was going to
go hang out with my daughter by the pool at
her compartment complex. I called her to see if she
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invited him over, and she said she was excited about
seeing him. She told me that I don't usually like
to be outside, but I could come if I wanted to.
I purposely went to surprise them. They made me feel
like an outsider. They talked about the nigs and a
few movies they'd seen lately. They were drinking wine, and
I stopped drinking in twenty twenty three, so they have
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that in common. My dad never took this kind of
interest in me, So this is strange to me. Is
my husband substituting my daughter for me? Should I break
them up or not? Well? I don't know if there's
anything you can break up. I mean they have a
bond and they've had one since she was a little girl.
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Is he substituting your daughter for you? That's a different question.
I mean it's suspicious. They spend a lot of time together.
They're extremely, extremely close. I would say, because you're his wife,
he's not taking this kind of time to spend with you,
and that's kind of that's what you're upset about. He's
not her blood father, but he is her stepdad. He
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is her stepdad and the only daddy she knows. So
if he's crossing any kind of lines here, you know.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
That's foul.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
Of course, she's thirty now, she's definitely old enough and
grown enough to know what's going on. I'm glad you
went over there to see for yourself, what if there
is anything going on between them, because you were suspicious.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
If it didn't make you.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Feel good, I'm sure that they were practically ignoring you
and talking about things between them, you know, just the
two of them. That was disrespectful. They could have included
you in their conversation. I say, talk to them both,
let them know how you feel, because your feelings do matter.
Speaker 4 (03:29):
Steve, Well, let me go with this letter. Do I
need to keep these two apart? My response to that is,
I don't think you can. I don't think you can.
You've been married eleven years, you've been together seven years.
Been married. He's younger than you. When y'all met, you
had a seventeen year old daughter. He has no children.
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You didn't want any more children. He said, he treats
your child like his child. My daughter's dad passed away,
so it worked out. I spoiled my child because I
don't want her to miss out on having both parents.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
Now here we go.
Speaker 4 (04:07):
She's very fond of her stepdad and they did things
without me all the time.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
The problem is.
Speaker 4 (04:17):
He is still very much involved in her life and
she's almost thirty. You initiated this. It's what you wanted
for your daughter. Now you have it. I feel like
it's gone from parental admiration to something else. Well, what's
something else you thinking to win too that? What something
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else do you think it has gone to? Because right
now we need proof. If you want me and Shirley
to say something, we need facts. All of this stuff
is circumstantial. In the corner law. You'd have to go
sit down. You have no texts you have no pictures.
You ain't never heard no lew comments that they had nothing.
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She's always called him by his name, Roger. And she
got a nickname for Pooky bar. Now, uh you know,
I don't know what the nickname is, but you didn't
print that. But if it's Pooky bear or or you know,
now here's the nicknames you want to.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
Be concerned with. Hot lips. Hot lips would be a
very concerning her nick.
Speaker 4 (05:29):
Juice it you know, these nicknames like this would would
throw something. Stop to your stepdaddy, Hey, Roger, ju say,
I see.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
Big Daddy.
Speaker 4 (05:42):
Big Daddy is uh is a little tricky. That was
my nickname on TV. Big Daddy gonna get you in
some problem. I'm just going over nicknames that could uh
uh like throw you into something. Here's one that could
create a problem. Goodness plenty you know GP good and
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please GP wants to get good and plenty girl problem, Mama,
you so lucky. Now you wouldn't need something like that.
So far, none of that's happy. And I'm gonna come
back and explain to you some more stuff. But you
said and he acts like her man instead of her stepfather.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
My question for you, how.
Speaker 4 (06:28):
Do you act like you her man and not act
like you her step father.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
That's the part that I need proof on it. When
we come back, we'll find.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
Out, all right, Steve, I will have part two of
your response coming up at twenty three minutes after the
hour Today's Strawberry letter, subject do I need to keep
these two apart? We'll get back into it right after this.
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Speaker 1 (07:29):
All right, come on, Steve, let's regap today's Strawberry letter.
The subject is do I need to keep these two apart?
Speaker 4 (07:35):
And my response to that was, I don't think you can.
I don't think you can. I think that ship has sailed.
I think your daughter you've been married. She was seventeen
when they met, you could even want to have them
on kids. You're older than him. He said, he'll treat
your kids like his. They became very close. They used
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to go do things without you all the time. The
problem now is she's thirty and they still are together,
and you think it's.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
More than parental admiration.
Speaker 4 (08:07):
You think it has turned into something else because she thirty.
She's always called him by his name, and now she
got a nickname for him.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
And like I said before, if your nickname is big.
Speaker 4 (08:22):
Daddy, hot lips, juicy, you know, GP short for good
and plenty, all these nicknames say something else. And then
you said he acts like her man instead of her stepfather,
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and so I want to know what that is. Then
you said, go on and say he's my daughter's handyman
and housekeeper. He would clean our house and then go
tidy up my daughter's place. Now that slick move. If
you are up to something, that's how you do it.
Because I know what man cleans up his whole house.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
But I don't.
Speaker 4 (09:04):
But if I'm gonna do something, I'm gonna go clean
your house first.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
Or it don't look strange.
Speaker 4 (09:10):
It's just strange that he over there clean up anywhere, Sady.
He told me he was going to go hang out
with my daughter by the pool at her apartment complex.
I called to see it if she invited him over,
and she said she was excited about seeing him. I
ain't never been in none of my kids' apartment to
hang out at they pool. It's probably because I'm famous.
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It wouldn't be a good look. So they all come
to my house with their friends and hang out.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
But I don't go out there and hang out with him.
Speaker 4 (09:41):
You know, I'll go out there and speak and you know,
monitor stuff, but I don't hang out with him.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
Have you seen your pool though, I would be over
there too if the kid yes, yeah, and.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
They have used it and abused it.
Speaker 4 (09:57):
And then I called to see if she had invited
him most she said she was excited about She told
me that I don't usually like to be outside. What
you don't now, since you're older than him, maybe you
acting like it. They got this little young, little friendship,
so I but she said you could come if you
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wanted to.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
I purposely went to surprise them. Here we go. They
made me feel like an outsider.
Speaker 4 (10:27):
They talked about the Knicks and a few movies that
they ain't seen ladies. See, you ain't a sportsperson. You
don't like being outside. And they was talking about some
movies they had seen. Lady, Now had they seen any
movies together or was they just comparing movie trivia? They
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were drinking wine and I stopped drinking wine in twenty
twenty three, so they had that incoming.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
There we go. You got to start back to drinking.
You ain't.
Speaker 4 (11:00):
They kept nothing else in this letter. I just discovered something.
Let's go over the stuff I need you need to
pick up on. First of all, you need to start
loving the outside because you don't.
Speaker 3 (11:10):
Check. You don't follow no sports because they talking about
the Knicks. Check.
Speaker 4 (11:16):
And then you said they were drinking wine and I
stopped drinking in twenty twenty three, so they had that incoming.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
You have got to start back to drinking.
Speaker 4 (11:27):
You got to get back to drinking, because they finished,
they did they drinking.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
It's going to go somewhere.
Speaker 4 (11:33):
My dad never took this kind of interest in me,
So this is strange to me, This is strange for anybody.
It is my husband's substituting my daughter for me. Should
I break them up or not? I don't think you
can I think who the danger getting broke up is?
Speaker 3 (11:50):
You and him?
Speaker 4 (11:52):
I don't think you're gonna break them up. They having fun,
They drinking wine. They out by the pool on the movies.
Me and is ain't sitting out at the pool drinking
no wine unless they come over to the house. And
I'm already out there smoking a cigarett, and they need
to talk to me. I don't have kids. You ain't
cleaning up your I don't clean up my house.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
Don't forget. Can you come over here and clean up
my house? Girl?
Speaker 2 (12:17):
Click?
Speaker 4 (12:20):
I ain't got a child that could even raise their voice. Daddy,
can you come over and fix me?
Speaker 3 (12:25):
No? And yeah, he's a handyman, and uh, I don't
know see suspicions. But you ain't got no pool.
Speaker 4 (12:41):
They could genuinely have just a close relationship, and you're
insecure and jealous of it because you think it's replacing you.
You don't watch movies, you don't like going outside. You
ain't a sports fan.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
He you don't drink, and she doesn't have any nicknames
for him, obviously, and.
Speaker 4 (13:06):
You ain't got no nickname hooky Bell and your daughter
is out of dapool. He got his shorts home. She
excited for him to come home.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
Strange.
Speaker 3 (13:21):
It's a little weird, but that's not nothing I could
ever be a part of.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
Right exactly. If he is crossing that line, it's two
fould leave your comments.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
I don't know that he is right.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
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