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January 15, 2020 16 mins

Dear Steve and Shirley, I am a hard-working, faithful man. I was married for 15 years to my college sweetheart. I never had any problems in my marriage until I tried to help out a friend. Here’s what happened… my wife had a best friend and the friend was married to a bigtime cheater. We were always there for her if she was going through drama with her husband. Their marriage finally ended when her husband got her cousin pregnant...............

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Time now for today's Strawberry Letter. And if you need
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(00:20):
read this one right here, right now in book He Love,
Hold On Tight. We got a point here. It is
Strawberry Letter. This letter makes me sad right here. Subject
he stole my wife from right up under me. Okay,
Dear Stephen Shirley, I am a hard working, faithful man.

(00:42):
I was married for fifteen years to my college sweetheart.
I never had any problems in my marriage until I
tried to help out a friend. Here's what happened. My
wife had a best friend and the friend was married
to a big time cheater. We were always there for
her if she was going through drama with her husband.
Their marriage finally ended when her husband got her cousin pregnant.

(01:08):
She put him out of the house and he didn't
have anywhere to go. So I talked my wife into
letting him stay with us for a while. So he
could sort things out. The first week, he kept to
himself and he slept a whole lot when he wasn't
at work. The second week he started talking more. I
came home from work one day and he and my

(01:30):
wife had cooked together and we all sat and ate.
Going into the third week, I sat down with him
to see if he'd made other living arrangements. He informed
me that he was very comfortable in my house, and
he said my wife loved having him there. He told
me that he could tell my wife needed to be
loved properly, so he seduced her, and he's been making

(01:53):
love to her almost daily for the past two weeks.
You can guess what happened next. I grabbed him and
I slung him to the ground, and my wife rushed
in and yelled for me to stop. She said it
was all true, and she apologized to me. Fast forward
to the present. I have a new house. He's in

(02:15):
my old house with my wife, and they are getting
married when our divorce is final. He took my kindness
for weakness and stole my wife from right up under me.
I still want to put yeah, I still want to
put hands on him, but there's no use in it
because he already got my wife. It's going to be

(02:36):
hard for me to trust another female. How could I
move past this and find happiness again? Wow? Now you
see why this letter makes me sad? This, I mean,
just when you think you've heard it all, I'm just
really sorry because you sound like a truly nice man.
You sound like a nice guy. You know, women ask
all the time where are the nice guys? You know

(02:58):
there are no more nice guys? Well, this was truly
a nice guy. These weren't even your friends. These were
your wife's friends. She was your wife's best friend. You
weren't even come on. You stepped in to help your
wife's best friend's husband out. You didn't have to do
any of this. You didn't have to do it, And
I know you're probably asking yourself why you did. Now

(03:21):
this loser and man, I'm being kind when I use
that word. He stabbed you in your back so hard.
Then he twisted that knife. Okay, but I can't blame
him entirely because your wife played a big role. Well,
what is wrong with her? What is wrong with your wife?
You guys have been college sweethearts and you've been married

(03:42):
for fifteen years, So she lets this guy come in here,
and after two weeks, she's sleeping with a guy and
defending him, trying to pull you off him, when he
clearly deserved a beat down. He was very comfortable and
not only living in your house, but you know, taking

(04:02):
liberties with your wife and everything else. And now he's
staying in your house. This is terrible. I blame your
wife for allowing this to go down, but more than that,
I blame him because you were just showing kindness to
another man who needed it at the time. I think
he overstayed. You allowed him to overstay. Three weeks is
too long. He should have gotten it together by then,

(04:24):
and if he didn't, he should have moved on. How
do you move on? One way is to hopefully, you know,
get some female companionship in your life. That's one way
you can do it, move forward and have happiness again.
You say it's hard for you to trust females. All
females aren't like that. I hope you know that, But
you know, start slowly with friendship from a female and

(04:46):
take it from there. You can move on and get
past this. And you're gonna have to try and forgive Steve.
I don't see nothing about no moving only in this letter.
This just about this letter. Yeah, I don't see them
moving around style of him. You married fifteen years to
college sweetheart, got it. Never had problems in my marriage
till I tried to help out a friend. Definition of friend.

(05:10):
Here's what happened. My wife had a best friend. So
this is your wife best friend, and the friend was
married to a big time cheetah. Now nowhere in this letter,
really was you saying that this man was your friend,
your wife's best friend, and the friend was married to

(05:31):
a big time cheetah. We were always there for her
when she was going through drama with her husband. Y'all
were always there for her. Yall, you ain't mentioning this
guy yet. Then the marriage finally ended when her husband
got her cousin pregnant. Okay, understood. She put him out

(05:53):
the house. He didn't have nowhere to go. So then
you talk to your wife to let him stay with
y'all for a while. When did he become your friend?
But y'all was with the lady to help up through
all the time. Then she put the man out. Now,
y'all take him into what is y'all a shelter? You
have to side. Now you got home. Oh damn shelter. Now.

(06:19):
The first week he kept to himself, and he slept
a lot when he wasn't at work. In the second
week he started talking. Here the letter change. I come
home from work one day here and my wife had
cooked together, and we all sat down at eight This
wedding letter in for me exactly this damn cooking together fall.

(06:42):
We'll have part two of Steve's response coming up at
twenty three minutes after the hour. Subject of today's letter,
he stole my wife from right up under me right
after this. You're listening show, all right, Steve, Come on,
Let's recap today's Strawberry letters. Subject he stole my wife
right from under me, right from up under me. This

(07:04):
letter unbelievable. Dude, be married to college sweetheart. They ain't
have no problems her her best friend had and her
friend her best friend her his wife. Excuse me. His
wife had her best friend who was married to a
big time cheetah. Then y'all was always there for going
through the drama with her husband. Then the marriage ended
when her husband got her cousin pregnant. She put him

(07:25):
out of the house. He didn't have anywhere to go.
So I talked my wife and letting him stay with
us so he could sort things out. First week, yet
to himself, slept a whole lot. Then he wasn't at work.
The second week he started talking more. I come home
from work one day he and my wife had cooked together,
and we all sat down at eight cooking together for

(07:48):
what ain't nobody here but me? You that I invited
and my wife. Why's two people cooking this damn meal?
Three people don't require help in the kitchen if your
wife been cooking, it's just a little bit extra for

(08:09):
one more half a cup more rice in the bowl uncooked,
that blows up to two damn cups of eight rice. Okay,
now that's where we start having the problem with right
now man. Going into the third week, I sat down

(08:30):
with the man to see if he'd made other living arrangements.
He informed me that he was very comfortable in my
heart right there. But see, I don't know, I don't
even know how we have this conversation. There's nobody that Tommy,
there's nobody that knows me. We can make this statement

(08:51):
to me that I'm very comfortable in your house. And
he said, my wife loved having him there. Wow. See,
I don't know nobody that really knows me that's can
open open their mouth and say these damn says. This
ain't disrespectful. This you who you think you're talking to.
He told me he could tell my wife needed to

(09:13):
be loved properly. Now right, because the dude that's writing
this letter, it's a little weak ass dude. I'm sorry man,
this little weak ass dude. Because first of all, I
can't write the letter into the type because he had
to send it an email. You can't email from jail,

(09:33):
so I couldn't even sent this letter. See, there's no
way I can send this because my ass in jail. Doc.
What did you say to me? He told me he
could tell my wife needed to be loved properly. What
so he seduced her and he's been making love to
her almost daily for the past two weeks. What holds

(09:56):
you that human can't say? The words took me and
I sit down and type it. Don't what I could
tell your wife needed to be loved probly? That was
it could talk. I could tell your wife needed to

(10:18):
be loved. That's it, That's it all. After that is
asked for me all this hill. First of all, you
you can tell my wife needed to be loved. Probably
that's when I stand up. I could tell your wife
need Okay. Then he said he'd been making love to

(10:39):
her for daily, for the past. You then told me
you screwing my what you thought you could? Said, and
then then thedn't now this way. He trying to sound
like a man. But I'm gonna tell you what. This
didn't happen, y'all. He just did Yeah. No, no, no, no,
he didn't do this right here. You can guess what
happened next. No, no, don't see next. No, we can't.

(11:03):
I grabbed him and slung him to the ground. That
ain't even how we fight. No first dog, I grabbed
him and slung him to the ground, and he let
you this is a dude that's bold enough to tell
you he can slept with your wife. I grabbed him
and slung him to the ground, and my wife rushed

(11:24):
in and yelled for me to stop. She said it
was all true, and she apologized to me. What. Yeah,
you don't know how long it would have took her
to get me on him. You know how many police
cars would have been outside he'd been all behind the
refrigerator hiding. You know, I'm trying to kill this dude.

(11:46):
Do you know that kitchen dog, I'm using everything, And
fast forward to the present. She said it was all true,
and she apologized to me. Fast forward to the president.
I have a new house. He's in my old house
with my wife, and they are getting married when our
divorces final. What hey, dog, you living? You living in

(12:10):
my house to one I'm paying for no man with her? No,
no man. That's not happening. This, none of this is happening.
This is unthinkable. And ain't a real man reading this
letter going, well, you know, Steve, what could he do?
We all because we all sitting there going the question
would be, what did not do? Ye? That's a short

(12:31):
set house on fire and kill everybody in here. We
got yellow tape round to build chalk marks on the ground.
We he didn't hiding the weapons. He got DNA everywhere.
The man ain't got no fighter nails, Steve. Plead that
Steve and a coma and everybody else in the damn Koma,

(12:51):
because that's what would have happened. Do you want to
continue your Yes, we gotta take We gotta take a
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now coming up at forty six after the hour, we're

(13:12):
gonna have part three of today's Strawberry Letters, subject he
stole my wife from right up under me. We'll get
back into it right after this. You're listening to show. Well, Steve,
we were talking about this Strawberry Letter. You had a
lot more to say on its subject he stole my
wife from right up under me? Um, and just a

(13:34):
quick recap recap the house he ended up sleeping with
his wife told him I was could look at your
wife until she needed to be loved properly. I'm in
sleeping with her every day for the past two weeks.
So you know what happened next? I grabbed him and
slung him to the ground. What hello, Yeah, Ain't nobody

(13:59):
gets stayed anybody. We're in the kitchen talking. You told
me you've been sleeping my wife for two weeks. Ain't
nobody gets stamped at? Nobody's head split open with a
front pan. Ain't nobody got the face held down? On
the on, the on, the on, the eye with the

(14:21):
gas on. Everybody got all the ligaments. I didn't. I
didn't reach behind the stove and snatch the gas line
out and sticking in your butt. I didn't, Now you go,
now you're talking. I didn't slam your head in the freezer,
though nine times I adn't do that. I slung him

(14:41):
to the ground. I grabbed him and slung him to
the ground. Slung him to the ground. So you don't
believe that, because that's not how you guys, though, Shirley,
you cannot tell no living man that I know that's marriage.
And put in time with a wife and a dude
sitting in his house and say these words to him,
and his reaction is I grabbed him and slung him

(15:03):
to the ground. Then my wife yelled it and yelled
for me to stop. So then he stopped. I so
bad I can't even hear her. Yeah, okay, And she
need to get out the way while I'm throwing the
blows in it. Damn yeh. Then he said, fast forward

(15:23):
to the president. I got a new house. So you
moved out your house, and there's a man that the
moved in your house that screwing your wife in that house.
This house. Ain't this house don't have no soot damage
from the fire you sat. Yeah, you can actually live
in this house. It ain't no water damage when the

(15:44):
fire department comes. But ain't you ain't said nothing on fire.
He's sleeping in the house screwing your wife. You then
win't got a new house and they getting married when
I divorced, and y'all ain't even divorced. So now you'll
paying for this house that he is sleeping with your wife. Pardner,
I'm gonna tell you right now. And none of this

(16:07):
is happening with no dudes I know. Okay, one of
my best friends, biggieweg if you sit in beg and
tell him you've been sleeping with his white man. This
is not even a new story. We're a forty Yeah,
the greatest episode. Everybody on that block, their houses in gym,
the whole block, all right. This one is an episode

(16:29):
of Forensic five. The Greatest onder we gotta got coming
up at the top of the hour. Some of the
dirtiest places in the gym that can make you sick.
We'll talk about it right after this. You're listening
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