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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:22):
Never know, Ladies and Gentlemen's time for the Strawberry Letter.
My good friend Shirley Strawberberry.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
Thank you junior.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
Subject he wants to be seen but not heard. Dear Stephen, Shirley,
my husband and I are thirty four and we've been
together for nine years and married.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
For three years.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
The only reason we are married is because I gave
him an ultimatum after six years of dating. We needed
to move this thing forward or I was gone. He
always had been very full of himself and the women
and his family made him think he was God's gift
to the earth because he has eyes that change color,
and he's tall and very handsome. He's a natural flirt
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and I tolerate it because I know that if he
ever left me, the woman would send him right back
to me. Here's the problem. He's not a manly man
outside of the bedroom. He can really show out in
that bedroom, but after that he's like having a child.
All he cares about is getting the latest trendy clothes,
getting the newest watchers or sneakers, and keeping his car
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clean and shiny outside looking in. He's got his stuff together,
but boy, oh boy, is he trifling. He's got a
great job and he's in a leadership position, but his
manager talks to him like a child and doesn't allow
him to speak up and make his opinions known. His
manager has even told him that he's not paid to think.
Speaker 4 (01:44):
You know.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
As soon as I heard that, I wanted to call
his job and speak to his manager, but I had
to realize he's my husband and not my son.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
I want him to.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
Focus less on how clean he is when he goes
to work and more on how he represents him when
he is at work. The same thing goes for our marriage.
I need him over our finances, upkeep of the house,
maintenance of our vehicles, all the manly stuff in a marriage.
He'd rather be seen than heard in every aspect of
his life. It's been nine years and I'm done enabling him.
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Should I keep planning a life with this man? Or
let this one go? Well, it's funny you should ask
that because you know you gave him an ultimatum to
marry you, and you knew all this stuff before you
married him. Did you really want to marry this guy?
Because it doesn't even seem like it. You should be
asking yourself why are you acting like your husband's mother
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instead of his wife.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
Why are you so critical of him?
Speaker 1 (02:43):
If he's as trifling and as bad as you say
he is, I don't understand why you married him in
the first place. Again, these are the questions you should
be asking yourself. You've known him for a very long time,
nine years. You said he didn't just get like this,
He's been like this all along. Another question for you,
why are you trying to change him now? Could it
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be you're trying to make him how you want him
to be. For instance, as far as the household chores go,
you want him to take over the finances, but what
if he knows nothing about finances?
Speaker 2 (03:17):
You want him to upkeep the house. Is he a handyman?
Speaker 1 (03:22):
If that's not going to happen, get a proper handyman
to do that kind of work. If he's not a
mechanic and you want more than just gas and car washes, that's.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Not going to happen either.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
I think you need to manage your expectations of this
man you married and you knew all about before you
married him. You're his wife, not his mother. Again, you
can't be calling up to his job checking his boss
because of the way he said his boss spoke to him.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
That's for him to do.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
You said he was a leader, right, You said that
in your letter, that your husband is a leader.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
Well let him lead.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
It sounds like you wanted desperately to marry him, you know,
thinking he would change. He didn't change. He's the same
man you dated for six years and now you're realizing
who he really is, and that doesn't seem to be
good enough for you. I would just love to hear
his side of the story, and one thing he would
probably say about you is that your boss is Steve,
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among other things.
Speaker 5 (04:23):
Well, you know, good answer, Shirley, I don't. It's a waste.
He wants to be seen and not heard. Let's go yo, both,
y'all thirty four, you've been together nine years, married for
three and then you say you begave him ultimatum and
eventually he marriage.
Speaker 6 (04:42):
That's how you got him.
Speaker 5 (04:43):
Okay, after six years, then you tell me that he's
very full of himself and the women in his family
made him think he was he was God's gift to
the earth because he has eyes that changed color. Well,
I bought my grandson to transformer one time, and it
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do the same thing.
Speaker 6 (05:07):
Transform. My eyes turned red.
Speaker 5 (05:09):
Sometimes sometime they blue, you know, but it ain't the
best toy he got. Now you got a man that
got his eyes that can change color, and you ain't
got the best man they got either. He's tall and
very handsome. Okay, so you just got a little cute
on him. The eyes is changed the colors. That means
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he's light skinned. Dog skinned people eyes don't change colors.
I'm telling you to be too shocked. You roll that
dating this little yellow boy out because his little eyes
can change. Because the dogs kill people eyes stay the same.
So we don't even know what dog chocolate man. I'm
telling you, Shereley, dark kill people's eyes don't change color.
Speaker 6 (05:54):
It'll be too much. You shouldn't have been here.
Speaker 5 (05:58):
Have him coffee with some fine dogsky and chicken in
her eye change color.
Speaker 6 (06:02):
You gotta get him out of here.
Speaker 5 (06:03):
That potic guy, that polic guy.
Speaker 6 (06:07):
She fits to be stepping out your TV when you
get home. You need to get your out of this ulter.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
Yeah, he's a natural flirt.
Speaker 5 (06:15):
Not tolerated because I know if he ever left me,
the woman with sending here right back to me. Oh
so you got somebody don't nobody won't, but you would
just let it go into hell right here. Here's the problem.
And we're gonna get to this when I come back.
He's not a manly man outside the bedroom. What oh
hell no, we come back, all right?
Speaker 3 (06:37):
Deal?
Speaker 2 (06:37):
Hold on, yeah, hang on, Steve.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
We'll have part two of your response to today's Strawberry
letter at twenty three minutes after the hour. The subject
he wants to be seen but not hers. We'll get
back into that right after this. You're listening Steve Hardy
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Speaker 1 (08:00):
On Steve Let's recap Today's Strawberry Letter, the subject is
he wants to be seen but not heard.
Speaker 5 (08:06):
So this woman got this man that don't nobody else
won't seem like to me.
Speaker 6 (08:10):
They've been together nine years.
Speaker 5 (08:12):
She forced him to marry him, but an ultimatum and everything.
Speaker 6 (08:16):
And then you know he thinks he.
Speaker 5 (08:18):
God's gift cause his eyes change colors. Like I said,
I bought my grandson a transformer, do the same thing,
just because his eyes changed color.
Speaker 6 (08:28):
And then we come to the conclusion that he must
be a little.
Speaker 5 (08:31):
Light scared boy, a little yellow boy, because dark skinned
people eyes do not change colors. It'll be too much,
it'll just be shocked. You're sitting over there sipping your coffee.
She looking over the edge of the mug, and all
of a sudden her eyes go green. You got to
get the hell out of him, because, like I said,
the poet, the guy, you got to get the hell
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out of here.
Speaker 6 (08:52):
She possessed.
Speaker 5 (08:55):
And now he's a natural flirt, not tolerated because I
know if he ever left me to win, and we're
sending him right back to me. So now you got
somebody don't nobody won't, but you we left off right here.
Here's a problem.
Speaker 6 (09:06):
He's not a manly man outside the bedroom. Oh boy,
you got.
Speaker 5 (09:12):
A man that ain't side and that ain't a man
outside the bedroom. So now you just got a big old,
a big old what they call it a man child.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
You got a man child.
Speaker 5 (09:26):
Yeah, he a man in the bedroom and he baby
hughet out. The bedroom just got a dipole. Look like this,
an egg with a dipole. You hit that big giant
duck named baby hughe. But he a man child in
the bedroom. He could really show out in that bedroom.
But after that, it's like having a child who won't
that after a while, you're gonna understand that you're letting
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a baby climb on you.
Speaker 6 (09:51):
That's what you're gonna realize in a minute.
Speaker 5 (09:54):
See right now that the man child parties big, but
then his baby hughey outside.
Speaker 6 (09:59):
After a while, you're gonna baby hewet that you make
in love to take your dive off.
Speaker 5 (10:05):
Baby, come on in here and lay down in water,
clean yourself, or you come in.
Speaker 6 (10:10):
That's what it's gonna start getting to.
Speaker 5 (10:13):
All he cares about is getting the latest trendy clothes,
getting the newest watchers or sneakers, and keeping his car
clean and shine outside looking in. He got his stuff together,
a boy or boy, he's trifles. He's got a great job,
and he's in a leadership position. Now listen to this
right here. But his matter talks to him like a
child and don't allow him to speak up and make
his opinions known. His managers even told him that he's
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not paid the thing. You know, as soon as I
heard that, I wanted to call this job and speak
to his management.
Speaker 6 (10:39):
Okay, so let me get this stress.
Speaker 5 (10:41):
So now everybody know who he is, and everybody knows
who and what they dealing with, even you. So now
your boss know who he is, the coworkers know who
he is, and you know who he is, but you.
Speaker 6 (10:55):
The only one stuck with.
Speaker 5 (10:56):
But I had to realize he's my husband and not
my son. Why do you even have to say that, Yeah.
Speaker 6 (11:07):
He's my husband, not my son.
Speaker 5 (11:09):
I want him to focus less on how clean he
is when he goes to work, on more how he
represents himself when he's at work, and the same thing
going for our man. And that surely made a good
point him. I need him over our finances. Suppose he
don't know nothing about financial up keeping the house. He
probably knows something about that, because you know about upkeep
on himself, maintenance of our vehicle, all the manly stuff
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in the marriage, y'all. Keep you keep asking this boy
to be a man when he ain't. He's a man child.
He's baby Hewett. He'd a big up with.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
The diaper on, not saying that he is that when
she married him, he baby Hewett.
Speaker 5 (11:50):
Look up to the old cartoo baby Hewett, a big
duck with the big lips. Put the diaper on, big lifts.
Speaker 6 (11:59):
He'd rather be. He's seen and heard in every aspect.
Speaker 5 (12:02):
Of his life. He's been nine years and I'm done
enabling him. Should I be playing a life with this man?
Or let this one go? Now? I think the bigger
question is is he planning a life with you? You forced
him in the marriage. Of course he did it because
he a little boy. Mama say I got you mad?
I got you mad?
Speaker 6 (12:21):
So now are the Boston told him? Shut up? He
paid the thing. He shut up. He out there washing
his car right now, put some new sneakers on. He
cleaned his hair, and here go to my eyes.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
There if Andy changed again to his son, what does
each color mean?
Speaker 5 (12:38):
He's sunny outside, see like if it's daytime, his son,
his eyes is a blue, turn into a blue. Thenner
to get into the evening. They turned, oh great, they
just he's good.
Speaker 6 (12:51):
Then when we get through in the morning. I got
to wash him and brush his teeth so he can
get it.
Speaker 5 (12:57):
And then he gonna go down there and try to
leave you better sit out, you old meal before you
go to work, and each your finish show owe me
before you go to work.
Speaker 6 (13:05):
And then he can climb sometime.
Speaker 5 (13:07):
Then he gonna run out to the house and get
into the get your back put.
Speaker 6 (13:10):
You gonna leave all his stuff at work.
Speaker 5 (13:12):
And then I got to see him all right here.
And then I got to go out there and set
his GPS so he don't get lost on his way
to work, you know.
Speaker 6 (13:19):
And then he go down there to the work.
Speaker 5 (13:21):
And then he climbed out the cow smelling all good
and wouldn't be gonna rule. I liked him, but three
women that send this back to the house. And then
Boston told him he can't make decisions on his job. Lady,
you want to quit enabling him.
Speaker 6 (13:32):
Stop all right.
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Speaker 6 (13:37):
You better enough gett know about baby Hughet. You'll get
you some dafted dupe.
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