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Subject he can't stand being alone. Dear Stephen Shirley. I
was living with my brother and his wife for a
while after they had a baby and it was time
for her to return to work. They didn't want the
baby going to a babysitter yet, so I agreed to
move in and help out. I'm retired and my daughter
is in college, so I have a lot of time
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on my hands. This is not what I signed up for, though.
My sister in law is a flight attendant and she
does international flights, which means she's gone for days at
a time. The first time she left, my brother left too.
He was gone all weekend and he did not tell
me where he was He got home and washed all
of his clothes and then went to pick up his
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wife from the airport. The next time she left the house,
he invited a woman over to the house, and he
told me that he was ordering out and watching a
movie with his friend. After I saw the fourth different
woman in the house, I asked my brother if he
had a problem and how could he do this to
his wife like that.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
He said that.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
He doesn't like to be alone and the women help
him pass the time. I told him, I told him
if he's needing to pass the time, he could keep
his five month old son all by himself. He continued
to bring other women in the house, so I told
his wife I was leaving because something came up and
I needed to be closer to home. She asked me
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if it was because my brother was being a womanizer.
I lied and said that was an it at all.
She's been knowing and hasn't said anything to him about it,
and that makes me even more uncomfortable staying there. I'm
not sure if she's insecure or has low self esteem
since she had the baby, but my brother's behavior is unbelievable.
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I want to ask her how much she knows but
I don't want to open Pandora's box. What do I do? Well,
I say, you do the same thing you're doing. You know, Look,
you gotta get out of there. You're doing the right thing.
I think you're absolutely doing the right thing.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
Get out.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
Tell her something came up and you got to go.
Because it's just way too much happening in and out
of this man's house, in this woman's house. It's too
much happening in their marriage that you don't need to
be a part of. I mean, this dad needs to
watch his own baby. If he's got this kind of
free time, why isn't he at home with this baby.
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Surely his son is more important than the women he's
cheating with on the baby's mom with. I just think
this is so disrespectful. I mean, that's needless to say,
but he's bringing the women in the house. The crazy
part is his wife seemed to know that he cheats right,
even though she called it.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Is he womanizing?
Speaker 1 (03:17):
You do not approve of what your brother's doing, that's
quite obvious. He doesn't care how you feel, though, because
he's not trying to stop. He doesn't respect you or
appreciate you for what he's what you're doing. I mean,
you know, he just says that he doesn't like to
be alone. I just think it's sad what he's doing.
It's horrible what he's doing, Horrible for his marriage, for
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his wife or the baby, everybody involved. But you don't
need to be there, you know, because they're not trying
to fix this. You have your own life. I mean
I say, do your own thing, you know, with your life.
You say you have a lot of time on your hands,
but they don't appreciate you.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
This is craziness.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
Poor baby, you know, just I just feel bad for
the baby because because you know what, what are these
parents doing, especially the dad, Steve, I.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
Don't want to be alone?
Speaker 4 (04:09):
Wall In Nemo, Crazy Sugarfoot or how players.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
It was just a silly game we were playing. Oh see.
The thing about old school is they have a song
for everything. I don't want to be alone, Innimo.
Speaker 4 (04:39):
That's all I could hear the whole time he was
reading this letter.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
Is flat out crazy man?
Speaker 2 (04:47):
What boy?
Speaker 3 (04:48):
What listen? This woman had a baby.
Speaker 4 (04:52):
Her and her husband they wanted didn't want the baby
go to babysitter, so they paid.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
You to move into and live with them.
Speaker 4 (05:01):
The woman's a flight attendant and she does international flights.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
After she got on her feet, she went back to work.
You there watching the baby, You had.
Speaker 4 (05:11):
No idea how much watching your people don't have to do.
I'm talking about you got to be stared at this baby. Yeah,
I mean you ain't got to breatheable moment. Now, your wife,
your sister in law, goes on the international trip. Your
brother who is the father of the baby with the
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woman who is the international flight attendant.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
He drop off of the airport. You ain't seen him
all weekend.
Speaker 4 (05:41):
So now he got hold washed all his clothes, deal
with the piggy's wife from from the airport.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
He had to wash them clothes. Ain't no telling us
on them clothes.
Speaker 4 (05:53):
Oh, especially if one of these girls is a stripper.
The glitter that's on them clothes, Oh Lord, that glitter
don't come out.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
So anyway, he's trying to wash it out.
Speaker 4 (06:10):
The next time she left the house, he invited a
woman over to the house, and he told you he was.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
Ordered out to watch a movie with his friend. What
actually house do?
Speaker 4 (06:24):
And then he didn't. Now let me tell you what
before we go to break After I saw the fourth
different woman in the house. So this boy visit man.
When I come back, I'll share you the rest of it.
Pretty much gonna be.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
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being alone. We'll hear his response at twenty three minutes after.
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All right, come on, Steve, let's recap today's strawberry letter.
The subject is he can't stand being alone.
Speaker 4 (07:35):
Well, here's the deal. Bottom line is this man and
woman are married. Your brother is married to this woman
who's a flight attendant. They had a baby. They didn't
want a baby. To go to a babysitter. They hired
you and brought you in full time nanny. You there,
but you didn't realize what's your job, entail, Because she's
an international flight attendant, so she's gone for days out
of ten.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
She took her first trip out of town.
Speaker 4 (07:56):
Then your brother didn't tell you this, but he took
a trip somewhere.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
He was gone for the whole weekend, came.
Speaker 4 (08:02):
Back in, washed his clothes, tried to get all the
glitter and make him hair out of it, and then
went to that point and picked up his wife. And
then the next time she left the house, he invited
another woman over to the house and told you, the
sister that wrote this letter, he was ordering out and
gonna watch a movie with his friend. After I saw
the fourth different woman in the house, the letter writer
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then turns to her brother and asked her brother if
he had a problem and how could he do his
wife like that?
Speaker 3 (08:32):
This is what the letter is about.
Speaker 4 (08:33):
Right there, he said, out of his own mouth, with
his own lips perched. He don't like to be alone,
and the women help him pass the time. Boy, there's
golf checkers online of business. You can go to gym
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so you can take up cooking.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
Here's the big one you could do. Only need to
pass some time. Try watching a baby. How about that?
Speaker 4 (09:07):
You talk about time? Put that down, set that quick,
crawling over there, lead that along, Get out and off
of there. Shut up, be quiet, don't go over there,
stay out of there. What are you doing? Where is he?
Where is he?
Speaker 3 (09:20):
Where? Don't climb up on that. But if you want
to just pass some time.
Speaker 4 (09:28):
Watching a baby and fill it up, I'm talking about
the brim. So now he tells you they help him
pass the time. Then you said he could keep his
five month old son by hisself. Now, after you told
him that, your brother continued to bring other women in
the house. So then you told his wife that you
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was leaving because something came in up and I need to.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
Be closer to home. Nice move.
Speaker 4 (09:55):
The wife turned around and asked you, is it because
your brother was a one womanizer?
Speaker 3 (10:02):
I lied and said that wasn't it at all.
Speaker 4 (10:05):
And then you realize that she been knowing this and
ain't saying anything about it, and that makes you even
more uncomfortable staying there. Now you're saying that you don't
know if she's in consuit. Excuse me insecure or got
low self esteem since she had the baby.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
But you think your brother's behavior is unbelievable.
Speaker 4 (10:27):
I want to ask her how much she knows, which
you shouldn't because she just told you he was a womanizer.
The details is unimportant. When a woman is a flight
attendant and she go out on the trip. You don't
think she called a check on the baby. You don't
think she asked him what is the baby doing right now?
FaceTime me with the baby. He can't answer that because
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the baby he holding.
Speaker 3 (10:51):
Face time with her. You see what I'm saying.
Speaker 4 (10:56):
So now she know because ain't no woman. I'm not
gonna know when you going for a whole weekend and
you supposed to be at the house with a baby.
Women know how to check up on that stuff. She
probably got his phone pinged. He don't know it, And
I can't tell you she been knowing this dude is cheat.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
But you don't need to.
Speaker 4 (11:18):
Then you say you don't want to ask her how
much she knows because you don't want to open up
a Pandora's box.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
What do I do?
Speaker 4 (11:24):
I think you should do exactly what you planned on
doing it, move back closer to home and let your
brother figure it out, because your brother he doing way
too much. First of all, man, you want to know
something I've never understood. I have never understood and I know,
ladies you may have some problems what I'm about to say,
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But I've never understood a man who cheats and brings
the woman.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
To the home of his wife.
Speaker 4 (11:53):
It's just another level of okay, you know, like you're
very familiar with as honor amongst these there's a cold
amongst the thieves.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
There's a cheetah cold too.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
Oh yeah, what's the cheat?
Speaker 4 (12:07):
Well, bringing a woman to your house where your family.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
Is, Yes, a foul brood.
Speaker 3 (12:13):
That's just like you know, that's another level of disrespect.
I got you.
Speaker 4 (12:17):
Stepping out, I got you got a side piece, I
got all that, But you're gonna bring the side piece
to your house.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
Two things is.
Speaker 4 (12:24):
Wrong right here while you and her, Because who is
the snake that know you marry and go over your
wife house and sitting up watching movies.
Speaker 3 (12:35):
I'll tell you the incident I had a long time ago.
Speaker 4 (12:39):
Then I would definitely keep the names out to protect
the innocent, mostly me.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
That's a pertinent piece of information there, sir.
Speaker 4 (12:49):
A partner who was famous before I was. I stayed
at his house and he had a girl over his
house and his wife when out of town to Skith,
and he bought a girl to the house. I'm upstairs
and I'm looking over the rail and I see the
whole thing now on the couch and everything. She leave
early in the morning. I said, dog, your wife could
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come back early. He said, Dog, this is my house.
I had this house where I married her.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
Wild session I had with that dude right there, I said, Broun,
listen to me.
Speaker 4 (13:19):
I've had that experience before and it's not gonna work out.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
Wow. Sorry, we're out of time.
Speaker 4 (13:26):
Steve whoa well, Jesse, just to help you out, let
me just speed to the It's also was his divorce too.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
Yeah, yeah, child's payments.
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