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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It is time now for today's Strawberry Letter, and if
you need advice on relationships, works, sex, parenting, and more,
please submit your Strawberry Letter to STEVEHARVEFM dot com and
click 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 (00:21):
It could be yours.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
Now it's time for the Strawberry Letter with my good
friend Shirley Strawberry.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
Thank you my good friend Junior. The subject is he
Saw right through My Lies. Dear Stephen, Shirley. I'm forty
one years old and I've been married thirteen years. Fifteen
years ago, I met my husband because he was friends
with my then boyfriend. My boyfriend broke up with me
abruptly and told me that he just needed some space.
(00:47):
Turned out he was having a baby with a girl
next door. His friend, whom who i'm married, who I'm
married to now, reached out to me to see if
I was okay. I was not okay, to check on me,
and we talked and drank and drank and talked. He
was a perfect gentleman for about four months, and he
even suggested that I started going out to meet other guys,
(01:10):
so I feel like it wasn't his intention to hook
up with me. But after a year being friendly, he
asked me out to dinner. I have been with him
since he talked to my ex, so there was no
hard feelings, and then we got married. All was forgiven,
but he and my ex stopped being friends. Fast forward
to last month and my ex called me to see
(01:31):
if I wanted to go to a rap concert because
he knows how much I love ratchet music. He gave
them to me because he had COVID. I went to
get the tickets he left in his mailbox. My husband
was excited about going after I told him that I
won the tickets on the radio and I picked them
up at the last minute because I forgot about them.
(01:52):
We sat in a section with a bunch of his
old friends and I told him it was a coincidence.
One of the friends asked me how my ex was doing.
I said I hadn't heard from him. The guy looked
at me and then at my husband, who was staring
at both of us. When we got in the car,
he asked where the tickets really came from. I can't
(02:13):
let him know the truth is it bound to come out?
What do I do now? See, this is why lies
don't work for me. You had no backup plan. You
had no backup lie plan just in case you got caught.
The line game is not for amateurs. It is not.
And clearly you are not a pro with this. Why
(02:35):
did you lie about it in the first place? Why
did you lie about where you got the tickets? That
was an unnecessary lie that didn't have to be told.
Now you're in too deep and you have to keep
these lies going because you know your man isn't gonna
like it when you told it and tell him you
got the tickets from your ex. They're not even speaking anymore.
(02:55):
But you don't have any lies to back up your
original lie. That's why lies don't work, because you can't
finish what you started without more lies. Now you're all
scared thinking someone is gonna tell your man and bust
you out. I can't help you, because you know I'm
not a big proponent of lying in the first place,
and I'm just not, so I will defer you. I
(03:19):
will defer you to my colleague and my Strawberry letter partner,
mister Steve Harvey, who we all know as an arsenal
full of convincing lies for every occasion.
Speaker 4 (03:31):
Yes, yes, so Steve take it away, Yes Lord, Yes,
before I start this letter, Yes, let me say this
to Shirley's response, she is free to feel how she
wants to feel, and she is actually basing her answer
based on her beliefs, her system of beliefs.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
True.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
Therefore, let me just.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
Say that I will explain to you all the good
that was in this letter. See you, he saw right
through my life. Let me show you a little. So
she's forty one, she been married thirteen years fifteen years ago.
You met your husband because he was friends with my
(04:15):
then boyfriend. My boyfriend broke up me abruptly and told
me he just needed some space. Okay, whenever a man
tells you he needs space, Ladies always know this. When
we say we need space, it is because we need
space cold word for freedom. Space is a cold word
(04:43):
for freedom. It's just a gentle way of letting you down.
But letting you down. We're gonna do that anyway. So
he needed some freedom, turned out, Now, why would he
need freedom or space? He was having a baby with
the girl next door, So he just told you he
(05:03):
needed some space. That's true, though, but it was a lie.
Space is a cold word for freedom. His friend, who
I'm married to now, reached out to me to see
if I was okay.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
I wasn't.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
He came by to check on me, talked. We drank
and drank and drank and talked. He was the perfect
gentleman for about four months, and he even suggested that
I started going out to meet other guys. All of
this was a lie. See, all of this was a lie.
He came back and see if you was okay. Nah,
(05:38):
he came by to check the temperature in the room
after y'all drank. That he was a perfect gentleman. I
done told y'all about these friends.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
Uh huh, because.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
He has always liked you, even when you was dating
his friend. So I feel like it wasn't his intention
to hook up with me. It's been his intention from
the day he went over there, little girl. But after
year being friendly, he asked me out to dinner. Now,
I guess what. I've been with him every since he
(06:12):
talked to my ex, so there's no hard feelings.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
And then we got married.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
All this forgiving, But then he and my ex stopped
being friends. Okay, when you say all what's forget all
of what was forgetting?
Speaker 1 (06:25):
Right?
Speaker 2 (06:26):
Who forgave who? For what? Oh?
Speaker 3 (06:28):
You forgave your ex for having the baby with his
next no neighbor, your husband forgave his friend for wanting
his ex.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
Hang on, Steve, Hang on all right. Coming up, he'll
have part two of Steve's response to today's Strawberry letter.
The subject is he saw right through my lies? Twenty
three minutes after the hour, we'll be right back. You're
listening Morning show. All right, Steve, come on and recap
today's Strawberry letter. The subject is he saw right through
(06:59):
my lifew.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
Shirley's response was typical Shirley because and rightfully so, because
Shirley is not a proponent of Lyne. So therefore, Shirley
believes that the truth is the best way at all times. I,
on the other hand, no better.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
So I deferred to you.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
Yes, yeah, you walk up in that house.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
Tell the truth if you want to see what happened.
So let the lies begin. Her ex boyfriend told her
that they wanted to stop dating abruptly because he needed space.
Space is a cold word for freedom, and why did
he need freedom because he had got the girl pregnant
next dough.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
He didn't want to tell that I, so he told
he is now come to find out.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
His friend, who you now married to, came by to
see if you was okay. I was not okay. He knew,
couldn't hell aware you wasn't okay when he went over there.
He came by to check on me and we talking.
We drink and drink and talk that he was a
perfect gentleman for about four months. Then he suggested he
(08:05):
even started that I suggested that I started to meet
other guys. Yeah, okay, that's cause he's liked you all
the time. And he did suggest that you started dating
other guys. You didn't know he was talking about him.
How stupid are y'all? So I feel like it wasn't
his intention to hook up with me, you stupid. It's
(08:27):
been his intention the whole time, And as soon as
his friend dumped you, he made it his point to
slide over there and act friendly for four damn monks.
Then he asked you out to dinner. Now guess what
y'all been with. Y'all been together ever since he talked
to my ex. So that was no hard feelings and
then we got married. Ooh, all was forgiven, but he
(08:51):
and my ex stopped being friends. So who forgave who?
You forget your ex boyfriend for having the baby next door?
Speaker 1 (08:58):
That's a lot.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
Or you think your ex boyfriend forgave his friend for
dating his ex after they broke up. Ain't nobody, ain't
no dude finna forgive that? So now they ain't friends
no more. Fast forward.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
Last month, your ex.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
Called you to see if I wanted to go to
a rap concert because he knows how much I love
ratchet music. He gave him to me because he had COVID.
Now he could have gave him tickets to anybody, but
he called you. He called you on purpose because he
was hoping you would go and take your husband and
(09:33):
be sitting around all his other boy so that was
his flex.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
I still got tabs on her.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
And if you take your ex with you, then they
gonna see that I still running things over here. Dudes
is tricky because he didn't forgive nothing. Because remember him
and his boy stopped talking. They ain't friends, so they
was friendly. They all shared this information. But no, he
lets your dumb ass walk right up into this. I
(10:06):
went to get the tickets, and he left in the mailbox.
My husband was excited about going after I told him
I want the tickets on the radio, and I'm picked
him up. At the last minute, I forgot about them.
So he's saying, cool now to me, this was a
good lie cause you just took the tickets. Ain't no
need of you telling him. You still talking to yoik.
(10:26):
So this was a perfectly good lie. I want him
on the radio. Everything working out. But then when you
get in the section section full of his old friends, Yeah,
and I told him it was a coincidence. One of
the friends asked me how my ex was doing. I
said I hadn't heard from him. The guy looked at
me and then at my husband, who was staring at
(10:47):
both of us. When we got in the car, he
asked me where the tickets really came from. I can't
let him know the truth. Is it bound to come out?
What do I do now? Well, first of all, it
was a good lie. You told it was a good
line because you don't start a fire in.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
Your own house. Ain't no need to tell him.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
You went over to your ex's house, got him out
the mailbox. He had COVID he ain't no need of
telling that. So I want him at the radio was
a good thing. I think it.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
Was a coincidence. Was a good ass move too.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
So now we got in the car, he asked me
where the tickets really came from?
Speaker 2 (11:26):
And what did you do?
Speaker 3 (11:28):
You did what you were supposed to do. You held
the lie. It was a coincidence. I want him on
the radio station. I can't let him know the truth.
Then you said, is it bound to come out?
Speaker 2 (11:43):
Well, we don't know that.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
We don't know that it's bound to come out. For
it to come out, he would have to tell his friends,
who already knew that he had given you the tickets,
because the friends asked you, how was he doing knowing
you went over there to get the tickets. Now, unless
you run up into them again, it ain't no reason
to you tell it, nothing else except the same lie.
(12:08):
You want them at a radio station, or hold? Is
it bound to come out? We don't know that, but
when it do come out, we'll deal with it. Did
what do I do?
Speaker 1 (12:16):
Now?
Speaker 2 (12:17):
Wait? You wait, wait, wait.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
Get your ass steal shut your damn mind, because right
now that lie is working, and you hold the lie,
the lie is still good as long as there's no proof.
And right now you don't have proof. And Sureley, you
saying she gonna need more lies. She don't need more lies.
(12:41):
If somebody listen to me, she just need the same lie.
I want these tickets out of radio station. We was
up there. You know, they hating on us. They ain't
never liked you see the other lies. No, no, no,
no no, they don't like him, and that's it.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
You can comment on Today's Strawberry Letter on Instagram and
Facebook at Steve Harvey FM. Also check out the Strawberry
Letter podcast on the free iHeartRadio app, coming up next
to its junior and sports talk. You're listening to Harvey
Morning Show.
It is time now for today's Strawberry Letter, and if
you need advice on relationships, works, sex, parenting, and more,
please submit your Strawberry Letter to STEVEHARVEFM dot com and
click 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 (00:21):
It could be yours.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
Now it's time for the Strawberry Letter with my good
friend Shirley Strawberry.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
Thank you my good friend Junior. The subject is he
Saw right through My Lies. Dear Stephen, Shirley. I'm forty
one years old and I've been married thirteen years. Fifteen
years ago, I met my husband because he was friends
with my then boyfriend. My boyfriend broke up with me
abruptly and told me that he just needed some space.
(00:47):
Turned out he was having a baby with a girl
next door. His friend, whom who i'm married, who I'm
married to now, reached out to me to see if
I was okay. I was not okay, to check on me,
and we talked and drank and drank and talked. He
was a perfect gentleman for about four months, and he
even suggested that I started going out to meet other guys,
(01:10):
so I feel like it wasn't his intention to hook
up with me. But after a year being friendly, he
asked me out to dinner. I have been with him
since he talked to my ex, so there was no
hard feelings, and then we got married. All was forgiven,
but he and my ex stopped being friends. Fast forward
to last month and my ex called me to see
(01:31):
if I wanted to go to a rap concert because
he knows how much I love ratchet music. He gave
them to me because he had COVID. I went to
get the tickets he left in his mailbox. My husband
was excited about going after I told him that I
won the tickets on the radio and I picked them
up at the last minute because I forgot about them.
(01:52):
We sat in a section with a bunch of his
old friends and I told him it was a coincidence.
One of the friends asked me how my ex was doing.
I said I hadn't heard from him. The guy looked
at me and then at my husband, who was staring
at both of us. When we got in the car,
he asked where the tickets really came from. I can't
(02:13):
let him know the truth is it bound to come out?
What do I do now? See, this is why lies
don't work for me. You had no backup plan. You
had no backup lie plan just in case you got caught.
The line game is not for amateurs. It is not.
And clearly you are not a pro with this. Why
(02:35):
did you lie about it in the first place? Why
did you lie about where you got the tickets? That
was an unnecessary lie that didn't have to be told.
Now you're in too deep and you have to keep
these lies going because you know your man isn't gonna
like it when you told it and tell him you
got the tickets from your ex. They're not even speaking anymore.
(02:55):
But you don't have any lies to back up your
original lie. That's why lies don't work, because you can't
finish what you started without more lies. Now you're all
scared thinking someone is gonna tell your man and bust
you out. I can't help you, because you know I'm
not a big proponent of lying in the first place,
and I'm just not, so I will defer you. I
(03:19):
will defer you to my colleague and my Strawberry letter partner,
mister Steve Harvey, who we all know as an arsenal
full of convincing lies for every occasion.
Speaker 4 (03:31):
Yes, yes, so Steve take it away, Yes Lord, Yes,
before I start this letter, Yes, let me say this
to Shirley's response, she is free to feel how she
wants to feel, and she is actually basing her answer
based on her beliefs, her system of beliefs.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
True.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
Therefore, let me just.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
Say that I will explain to you all the good
that was in this letter. See you, he saw right
through my life. Let me show you a little. So
she's forty one, she been married thirteen years fifteen years ago.
You met your husband because he was friends with my
(04:15):
then boyfriend. My boyfriend broke up me abruptly and told
me he just needed some space. Okay, whenever a man
tells you he needs space, Ladies always know this. When
we say we need space, it is because we need
space cold word for freedom. Space is a cold word
(04:43):
for freedom. It's just a gentle way of letting you down.
But letting you down. We're gonna do that anyway. So
he needed some freedom, turned out, Now, why would he
need freedom or space? He was having a baby with
the girl next door, So he just told you he
(05:03):
needed some space. That's true, though, but it was a lie.
Space is a cold word for freedom. His friend, who
I'm married to now, reached out to me to see
if I was okay.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
I wasn't.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
He came by to check on me, talked. We drank
and drank and drank and talked. He was the perfect
gentleman for about four months, and he even suggested that
I started going out to meet other guys. All of
this was a lie. See, all of this was a lie.
He came back and see if you was okay. Nah,
(05:38):
he came by to check the temperature in the room
after y'all drank. That he was a perfect gentleman. I
done told y'all about these friends.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
Uh huh, because.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
He has always liked you, even when you was dating
his friend. So I feel like it wasn't his intention
to hook up with me. It's been his intention from
the day he went over there, little girl. But after
year being friendly, he asked me out to dinner. Now,
I guess what. I've been with him every since he
(06:12):
talked to my ex, so there's no hard feelings.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
And then we got married.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
All this forgiving, But then he and my ex stopped
being friends. Okay, when you say all what's forget all
of what was forgetting?
Speaker 1 (06:25):
Right?
Speaker 2 (06:26):
Who forgave who? For what? Oh?
Speaker 3 (06:28):
You forgave your ex for having the baby with his
next no neighbor, your husband forgave his friend for wanting
his ex.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
Hang on, Steve, Hang on all right. Coming up, he'll
have part two of Steve's response to today's Strawberry letter.
The subject is he saw right through my lies? Twenty
three minutes after the hour, we'll be right back. You're
listening Morning show. All right, Steve, come on and recap
today's Strawberry letter. The subject is he saw right through
(06:59):
my lifew.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
Shirley's response was typical Shirley because and rightfully so, because
Shirley is not a proponent of Lyne. So therefore, Shirley
believes that the truth is the best way at all times. I,
on the other hand, no better.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
So I deferred to you.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
Yes, yeah, you walk up in that house.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
Tell the truth if you want to see what happened.
So let the lies begin. Her ex boyfriend told her
that they wanted to stop dating abruptly because he needed space.
Space is a cold word for freedom, and why did
he need freedom because he had got the girl pregnant
next dough.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
He didn't want to tell that I, so he told
he is now come to find out.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
His friend, who you now married to, came by to
see if you was okay. I was not okay. He knew,
couldn't hell aware you wasn't okay when he went over there.
He came by to check on me and we talking.
We drink and drink and talk that he was a
perfect gentleman for about four months. Then he suggested he
(08:05):
even started that I suggested that I started to meet
other guys. Yeah, okay, that's cause he's liked you all
the time. And he did suggest that you started dating
other guys. You didn't know he was talking about him.
How stupid are y'all? So I feel like it wasn't
his intention to hook up with me, you stupid. It's
(08:27):
been his intention the whole time, And as soon as
his friend dumped you, he made it his point to
slide over there and act friendly for four damn monks.
Then he asked you out to dinner. Now guess what
y'all been with. Y'all been together ever since he talked
to my ex. So that was no hard feelings and
then we got married. Ooh, all was forgiven, but he
(08:51):
and my ex stopped being friends. So who forgave who?
You forget your ex boyfriend for having the baby next door?
Speaker 1 (08:58):
That's a lot.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
Or you think your ex boyfriend forgave his friend for
dating his ex after they broke up. Ain't nobody, ain't
no dude finna forgive that? So now they ain't friends
no more. Fast forward.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
Last month, your ex.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
Called you to see if I wanted to go to
a rap concert because he knows how much I love
ratchet music. He gave him to me because he had COVID.
Now he could have gave him tickets to anybody, but
he called you. He called you on purpose because he
was hoping you would go and take your husband and
(09:33):
be sitting around all his other boy so that was
his flex.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
I still got tabs on her.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
And if you take your ex with you, then they
gonna see that I still running things over here. Dudes
is tricky because he didn't forgive nothing. Because remember him
and his boy stopped talking. They ain't friends, so they
was friendly. They all shared this information. But no, he
lets your dumb ass walk right up into this. I
(10:06):
went to get the tickets, and he left in the mailbox.
My husband was excited about going after I told him
I want the tickets on the radio, and I'm picked
him up. At the last minute, I forgot about them.
So he's saying, cool now to me, this was a
good lie cause you just took the tickets. Ain't no
need of you telling him. You still talking to yoik.
(10:26):
So this was a perfectly good lie. I want him
on the radio. Everything working out. But then when you
get in the section section full of his old friends, Yeah,
and I told him it was a coincidence. One of
the friends asked me how my ex was doing. I
said I hadn't heard from him. The guy looked at
me and then at my husband, who was staring at
(10:47):
both of us. When we got in the car, he
asked me where the tickets really came from. I can't
let him know the truth. Is it bound to come out?
What do I do now? Well, first of all, it
was a good lie. You told it was a good
line because you don't start a fire in.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
Your own house. Ain't no need to tell him.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
You went over to your ex's house, got him out
the mailbox. He had COVID he ain't no need of
telling that. So I want him at the radio was
a good thing. I think it.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
Was a coincidence. Was a good ass move too.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
So now we got in the car, he asked me
where the tickets really came from?
Speaker 2 (11:26):
And what did you do?
Speaker 3 (11:28):
You did what you were supposed to do. You held
the lie. It was a coincidence. I want him on
the radio station. I can't let him know the truth.
Then you said, is it bound to come out?
Speaker 2 (11:43):
Well, we don't know that.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
We don't know that it's bound to come out. For
it to come out, he would have to tell his friends,
who already knew that he had given you the tickets,
because the friends asked you, how was he doing knowing
you went over there to get the tickets. Now, unless
you run up into them again, it ain't no reason
to you tell it, nothing else except the same lie.
(12:08):
You want them at a radio station, or hold? Is
it bound to come out? We don't know that, but
when it do come out, we'll deal with it. Did
what do I do?
Speaker 1 (12:16):
Now?
Speaker 2 (12:17):
Wait? You wait, wait, wait.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
Get your ass steal shut your damn mind, because right
now that lie is working, and you hold the lie,
the lie is still good as long as there's no proof.
And right now you don't have proof. And Sureley, you
saying she gonna need more lies. She don't need more lies.
(12:41):
If somebody listen to me, she just need the same lie.
I want these tickets out of radio station. We was
up there. You know, they hating on us. They ain't
never liked you see the other lies. No, no, no,
no no, they don't like him, and that's it.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
You can comment on Today's Strawberry Letter on Instagram and
Facebook at Steve Harvey FM. Also check out the Strawberry
Letter podcast on the free iHeartRadio app, coming up next
to its junior and sports talk. You're listening to Harvey
Morning Show.
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