April 26, 2018 • 10 mins
Dear Steve and Shirley, I think that I have it all figured out when it comes to dating, yet I'm still single. I have created a few dating guidelines for the men I meet and my friends don't agree with my guidelines. I think a man should be a man at all times and provide for me. So here are a few of my guidelines. I never give a key to my house to a man. When I first meet him. He has to earn the key by helping me with the rent or mortgage.....
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Buckle up a whole long time. We got it for
you the strawberry lettuce. Yes, subject, he's got to pay
to play, Dear Stephen Shirley, I think that I have
it all figured out when it comes to dating, yet
I'm still single. I have created a few dating guidelines
for the men I meet, and my friends don't agree
(00:21):
with my guidelines. I think a man should be a
man at all times and provide for me, so here
are a few of my guidelines. I never give a
key to my house to a man when I first
meet him. He has to earn the key by helping
me with the rent or mortgage. I make sure the
man gets my mail from me, and I encourage him
(00:41):
to open it so he can see what my monthly
bills are. If he's a real man, he'll help me
pay the bills. When I first meet a man, I
keep my refrigerator and pantry empty and make sure to
open the fridge and cabinets around him so he can
see they're empty. If he's a real man, he will
take me to the grocery store and buy me some food,
(01:03):
or he'll give me grocery money. I feel like a
man should buy food drinks and snacks from my house
regularly if he plans to keep coming over. I never
let a man drive my car unless he's helping me
pay the car note and insurance. Within thirty days of
dating a man, I know if he will be a
keeper based on how he's treated me. If he's managed
(01:28):
to hang in there after thirty days, then I know
it's okay to give him the cookie. But once he
gets the cookie, he should start buying me nice things
like clothes and jewelry and purses, maybe even a luxury car.
It takes a lot for us women to stay looking
good for men, so the man should pay for the
privilege of being with a beautiful woman. I don't see
(01:50):
a problem with placing these expectations on a man. Do
you agree? I need your honest advice? Wow, the thirty
day rules, Steve, she beat you by sixty sixty days
and I just have to tell you that life doesn't
work like this. I'm sorry these guidelines. You don't even
know these guys you're talking about. You don't give a
(02:13):
key to your house to a man that you just
met met? Well, I hope not. Who does that? Yeah?
Who does that? Uh? You know? No, one is signing
up for this in the first thirty days. They're just
not gonna do it. It's too much, too many rules
you're controlling. You're pretty unbelievable with all this stuff you
wrote in this letter. You're talking about if he's a
(02:35):
real man, he'll do this, or if he's a real man,
you think he should do that. Well, listen, when a
real man comes along and he's all in and all
of that, he's going to take care of you. He's
going to take care of all that or a lot
of this that's on your list. Okay, you don't even
have to worry about that when a real man comes along,
because guess what he's going to want to He's not
(02:57):
going to need you to prod him, you know, to
do with he needs to do. He's not gonna do
that because your happiness is going to be his priority.
He's going to want to take care of you and
make you happy. We're talking about a relationship here with
humans and emotions and things like that. This is not
some business deal, some business arrangement. So I think you
need to back up with all these guidelines and all
(03:18):
this kind of stuff because it's not going to work
if he's a real man to use your words. Okay, Steve, alright,
this is your letter, Steve, you like these kinds of letters.
I don't even know where to start. This is so crazy.
(03:40):
I damn gonna comment on every single line in here. Yeah,
this is crazy. All right, let's start right here. He's
got to pay to play, okay, right, really tripping on
that we all inadvertently paid to play. You know, we
understand the why and dying process. You know, we know
(04:03):
we gotta take you somewhere, show you out. You know
we we we ain't mad at that then, Stephen Sherley
line number one. I think I got it all figured
out when it comes to dat. Yeah, I'm still single. Hello,
you don't have a damn thing. Okay, See, you're crazy
(04:26):
right here. I've created a few dating guylines from me
that I meet my friends. Don't agree with my guyline.
I think man should be a man at all times. Hell,
we do too, and provide for me. Hold on. Part
of our way of showing love is to protect, profess,
and provide. But that's after we love you. We don't
(04:50):
owe you nothing till in I never give a keep
a man to my house when I first meet him. Dull,
this is dumb. Surely don't do it. Monica don't know. Carlin,
don't do it. But Mama didn't do it. Marger don't know. Sheridan,
(05:11):
don't do it. Brandy don't know it, carl It don't
know it. Lord don't know. Come on, hell, you ain't
saying nothing. He has to earn the key by helping
with the rind them, or I make sure that they
hear the stupid part. I make sure the man gets
(05:32):
my mail for me, and I don't carriage him to
open it so he can see what my monthly bills are.
If he's a real man, here, help me pay the bills.
What ain't nobody gonna be open? The ball is meal
looking at all this oldness. We ain't in love with
you when he slept with you. We ain't got no
key to know how. I don't give it. Damn, watch
(05:53):
who you own right now? This ain't my bit open
my mail for me for what you know what I
mean need? I got over my I didn't go over
here to go over your bills. Then I keep my
writing here here here we go. When I first meet
a man, I keep my refrigerator and pantry empty, and
(06:15):
make sure to open the fridge and cabinets around him
so he can see their empty. If he's a real man,
he'd take me to the grocery store and buy me
some food. If you was a real woman, you'd have
food in your damn refrigerator. Come on, what woman don't
have groceries in the pantry or if you're a real woman,
(06:36):
you will have food in your refrigerator, and so you
can offer somebody something when they come to your house.
It's called hospitality. You ain't got a none of that,
so you just gold digging the whole time. I'm gonna
give your Keith, but you need to help pay this
mortgage and rent. I want you told my mail, but
you need to take care of the bills. Now guess what,
(06:58):
and a damn thing in the pantry and the refrigerator.
You need to be a real man. Your asser is crazy.
That's what's wrong. We'll be back talking about this crazy
nothing as part two of your response to the latter.
It is the subject keeps got to pay to play.
(07:18):
He gotta pay to play. This woman got all these
guidelines for this man. The most interesting line in this
I think I got it all figured out when it
comes to Dayton. Yet I'm still single. Hello, how wrong
have you been? Okay, so now let's go. She gave
(07:40):
all this stuff. She never give a key to a
man to a house when I first meet him. Okay.
She makes sure the man opened up her mail so
he can see what he olds, so he can offer
to pay when a man come over. She don't have
nothing in refrigerating, nothing in the patrick, so he would
want to take a grocery shop. I'm sitting up in here.
I don't came on with this ignorant health of house
(08:01):
we set up in here. We ain't got no damn
job Mannai's and I can't even make a damn sandwich
over this hell. I come over here, I can't ask
for a salt and pepper. I bought a subway sandwich
over here, I can't eat it cause this health ain't
got napkins, salt or pemple. Lady, that's why you single?
(08:25):
Right there there, she said, Oh, I feel like a
man should buy food, drinks and snacks from my house regularly.
If he plans don't keep coming over, they don't keep
coming over because you ain't got no need over there.
(08:45):
But you don't have no man, So which one of
these mans? You? What? Only man? You keep turning in
the keepers, then you ain't gotten there one over? If
he was managed hanging after third days. I know it's
okay to give him the can you stupid, But once
he gets to two cookie, he should start buying me
nice things like clothes, jewelry in person. You didn't already
(09:09):
gave him to cooking. Look, I can't keep buying only
damn grossing, filling up this pantro, pay damn bills, paying
your mortgage and your rip. Now I gotta buy you
person shoot because she gave me some damn cookie. What
are you nuts? What do your cookie do? Do you
(09:36):
know what your cookie got to do to get persons
and shooting causing rip? Patrick luxury and yet now everybody
you ain't got nobody. M hmmm, two things is wrong?
You're crazy and you're cookie What you think? That's too
(09:59):
da Some things we can just surmize in this letter. Right,
you're crazy and your cookie ain't what you're thinking. Well,
her friends don't agree with her guidelines right there, So
it's not like you don't have a luxury car cookie
for you. We gotta go. We have to go. Email
(10:26):
us your Instagram that's your thoughts on today's Strawberry Letter
at my girl, Shirley, you crazy ass by yourself and
join me today at one ThM Eastern Time for our
Strawberry Letter live after show. This is gonna be a
good letter, and we have a good letter. We have
a good letter for you. Facebook Live. You're listening to
the Steve Harvey Morning Show.
Buckle up a whole long time. We got it for
you the strawberry lettuce. Yes, subject, he's got to pay
to play, Dear Stephen Shirley, I think that I have
it all figured out when it comes to dating, yet
I'm still single. I have created a few dating guidelines
for the men I meet, and my friends don't agree
(00:21):
with my guidelines. I think a man should be a
man at all times and provide for me, so here
are a few of my guidelines. I never give a
key to my house to a man when I first
meet him. He has to earn the key by helping
me with the rent or mortgage. I make sure the
man gets my mail from me, and I encourage him
(00:41):
to open it so he can see what my monthly
bills are. If he's a real man, he'll help me
pay the bills. When I first meet a man, I
keep my refrigerator and pantry empty and make sure to
open the fridge and cabinets around him so he can
see they're empty. If he's a real man, he will
take me to the grocery store and buy me some food,
(01:03):
or he'll give me grocery money. I feel like a
man should buy food drinks and snacks from my house
regularly if he plans to keep coming over. I never
let a man drive my car unless he's helping me
pay the car note and insurance. Within thirty days of
dating a man, I know if he will be a
keeper based on how he's treated me. If he's managed
(01:28):
to hang in there after thirty days, then I know
it's okay to give him the cookie. But once he
gets the cookie, he should start buying me nice things
like clothes and jewelry and purses, maybe even a luxury car.
It takes a lot for us women to stay looking
good for men, so the man should pay for the
privilege of being with a beautiful woman. I don't see
(01:50):
a problem with placing these expectations on a man. Do
you agree? I need your honest advice? Wow, the thirty
day rules, Steve, she beat you by sixty sixty days
and I just have to tell you that life doesn't
work like this. I'm sorry these guidelines. You don't even
know these guys you're talking about. You don't give a
(02:13):
key to your house to a man that you just
met met? Well, I hope not. Who does that? Yeah?
Who does that? Uh? You know? No, one is signing
up for this in the first thirty days. They're just
not gonna do it. It's too much, too many rules
you're controlling. You're pretty unbelievable with all this stuff you
wrote in this letter. You're talking about if he's a
(02:35):
real man, he'll do this, or if he's a real man,
you think he should do that. Well, listen, when a
real man comes along and he's all in and all
of that, he's going to take care of you. He's
going to take care of all that or a lot
of this that's on your list. Okay, you don't even
have to worry about that when a real man comes along,
because guess what he's going to want to He's not
(02:57):
going to need you to prod him, you know, to
do with he needs to do. He's not gonna do
that because your happiness is going to be his priority.
He's going to want to take care of you and
make you happy. We're talking about a relationship here with
humans and emotions and things like that. This is not
some business deal, some business arrangement. So I think you
need to back up with all these guidelines and all
(03:18):
this kind of stuff because it's not going to work
if he's a real man to use your words. Okay, Steve, alright,
this is your letter, Steve, you like these kinds of letters.
I don't even know where to start. This is so crazy.
(03:40):
I damn gonna comment on every single line in here. Yeah,
this is crazy. All right, let's start right here. He's
got to pay to play, okay, right, really tripping on
that we all inadvertently paid to play. You know, we
understand the why and dying process. You know, we know
(04:03):
we gotta take you somewhere, show you out. You know
we we we ain't mad at that then, Stephen Sherley
line number one. I think I got it all figured
out when it comes to dat. Yeah, I'm still single. Hello,
you don't have a damn thing. Okay, See, you're crazy
(04:26):
right here. I've created a few dating guylines from me
that I meet my friends. Don't agree with my guyline.
I think man should be a man at all times. Hell,
we do too, and provide for me. Hold on. Part
of our way of showing love is to protect, profess,
and provide. But that's after we love you. We don't
(04:50):
owe you nothing till in I never give a keep
a man to my house when I first meet him. Dull,
this is dumb. Surely don't do it. Monica don't know. Carlin,
don't do it. But Mama didn't do it. Marger don't know. Sheridan,
(05:11):
don't do it. Brandy don't know it, carl It don't
know it. Lord don't know. Come on, hell, you ain't
saying nothing. He has to earn the key by helping
with the rind them, or I make sure that they
hear the stupid part. I make sure the man gets
(05:32):
my mail for me, and I don't carriage him to
open it so he can see what my monthly bills are.
If he's a real man, here, help me pay the bills.
What ain't nobody gonna be open? The ball is meal
looking at all this oldness. We ain't in love with
you when he slept with you. We ain't got no
key to know how. I don't give it. Damn, watch
(05:53):
who you own right now? This ain't my bit open
my mail for me for what you know what I
mean need? I got over my I didn't go over
here to go over your bills. Then I keep my
writing here here here we go. When I first meet
a man, I keep my refrigerator and pantry empty, and
(06:15):
make sure to open the fridge and cabinets around him
so he can see their empty. If he's a real man,
he'd take me to the grocery store and buy me
some food. If you was a real woman, you'd have
food in your damn refrigerator. Come on, what woman don't
have groceries in the pantry or if you're a real woman,
(06:36):
you will have food in your refrigerator, and so you
can offer somebody something when they come to your house.
It's called hospitality. You ain't got a none of that,
so you just gold digging the whole time. I'm gonna
give your Keith, but you need to help pay this
mortgage and rent. I want you told my mail, but
you need to take care of the bills. Now guess what,
(06:58):
and a damn thing in the pantry and the refrigerator.
You need to be a real man. Your asser is crazy.
That's what's wrong. We'll be back talking about this crazy
nothing as part two of your response to the latter.
It is the subject keeps got to pay to play.
(07:18):
He gotta pay to play. This woman got all these
guidelines for this man. The most interesting line in this
I think I got it all figured out when it
comes to Dayton. Yet I'm still single. Hello, how wrong
have you been? Okay, so now let's go. She gave
(07:40):
all this stuff. She never give a key to a
man to a house when I first meet him. Okay.
She makes sure the man opened up her mail so
he can see what he olds, so he can offer
to pay when a man come over. She don't have
nothing in refrigerating, nothing in the patrick, so he would
want to take a grocery shop. I'm sitting up in here.
I don't came on with this ignorant health of house
(08:01):
we set up in here. We ain't got no damn
job Mannai's and I can't even make a damn sandwich
over this hell. I come over here, I can't ask
for a salt and pepper. I bought a subway sandwich
over here, I can't eat it cause this health ain't
got napkins, salt or pemple. Lady, that's why you single?
(08:25):
Right there there, she said, Oh, I feel like a
man should buy food, drinks and snacks from my house regularly.
If he plans don't keep coming over, they don't keep
coming over because you ain't got no need over there.
(08:45):
But you don't have no man, So which one of
these mans? You? What? Only man? You keep turning in
the keepers, then you ain't gotten there one over? If
he was managed hanging after third days. I know it's
okay to give him the can you stupid, But once
he gets to two cookie, he should start buying me
nice things like clothes, jewelry in person. You didn't already
(09:09):
gave him to cooking. Look, I can't keep buying only
damn grossing, filling up this pantro, pay damn bills, paying
your mortgage and your rip. Now I gotta buy you
person shoot because she gave me some damn cookie. What
are you nuts? What do your cookie do? Do you
(09:36):
know what your cookie got to do to get persons
and shooting causing rip? Patrick luxury and yet now everybody
you ain't got nobody. M hmmm, two things is wrong?
You're crazy and you're cookie What you think? That's too
(09:59):
da Some things we can just surmize in this letter. Right,
you're crazy and your cookie ain't what you're thinking. Well,
her friends don't agree with her guidelines right there, So
it's not like you don't have a luxury car cookie
for you. We gotta go. We have to go. Email
(10:26):
us your Instagram that's your thoughts on today's Strawberry Letter
at my girl, Shirley, you crazy ass by yourself and
join me today at one ThM Eastern Time for our
Strawberry Letter live after show. This is gonna be a
good letter, and we have a good letter. We have
a good letter for you. Facebook Live. You're listening to
the Steve Harvey Morning Show.
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