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The Strawberry Letter heard on The Steve Harvey Morning Show Thursday, June 5th, 2025. Subject: He's Not Satisfied, But I Am

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 1 (00:27):
Thank you, nephew. Subject He's never satisfied. He's never satisfied.
But I am, Dear Stephen Shirley. I'm married to my
college sweetheart and he's a great man, but we don't
get along now. I wore the pants in our family
for years because I made the most money.

Speaker 2 (00:44):
Back then.

Speaker 1 (00:44):
All he could do is please me and cater to me.
I got used to it and it worked fine for me.
He couldn't wait to get a better paying job and
then switch back to wearing the pants and our marriage.
Right after he started his new job, he started mouthing
off and telling me he wasn't going to do this
or that. I let him do it because I know

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for years he couldn't talk slick to me because he
was broke. Here's the funny part, though, Now he's got
a new job, it came with a new level of stress.
Now that he's got a new job, it came with
a new level of stress. That stress led to high
blood pressure, and that high blood pressure led to an
increase in his medication, so that led to him not
being able to perform sexually.

Speaker 2 (01:27):
There we go.

Speaker 1 (01:28):
He has been a miserable wreck for a year, and
I have gone on with my life without him. I
have a man on the side, and he comes over
to the house on Mondays and we meet at a
hotel on Thursdays. It's not about the sex. It's just
nice to talk to a man that has his stuff together.
He's not stressed about me being married, and he's not

(01:50):
afraid to make love to me in my bedroom that
I share with my husband. It's not like my husband
and I are putting that mattress to use anymore. I
try to tune out my husband's constant complaining about his job,
and I'm tired of him getting himself riled for sex
when he knows he can't last for thirty seconds. I'm
over him and this marriage, and maybe if he had

(02:12):
a better attitude I could deal with it. Having an
affair is the easiest way out for me. Life is
too short to be unsatisfied, So how can he live
like that? Do you know he's thinking? Do you think
he's thinking of divorce as much as I am? Should
I try to work it out if he seems to
not care not. This has to be one of the saddest,

(02:39):
most pathetic letters. I mean, first, the dumb rule about
you making the most money so you wear the pants.
That was stupid because you emasculated your husband with that.
I mean, there's no such rule in marriage about whoever
makes the money is the boss or wears the pants.
You made that up. I'm really surprised that your husband
went along with that foolishness. Quite frankly, marriage marriage is

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a partnership, okay, between two people who love each other,
and the universal rule, the universal rule now is the
man is head of household. What you've done is turn
your marriage into a miserable place to be. And I
guarantee you that that's not just your husband's new job
that is stressing him out. It's you it's you too.

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You're a terrible wife. You should never be married because
there's no love, there's no commitment, there's no respect from you.
Everything you shouldn't do you're doing, and you're cheating on
top of that. Is it any wonder he has high
blood pressure? I mean, what have you ever thought that
he might catch you in your man having sex in

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his house, in his bed. Have you ever thought of that?
So if he does, he can go ahead and divorce you,
that's for sure. I mean, once he's rid of you,
I bet his blood pressure will go down, he can
start to live a better, happier life. I just think
you're a mess in this letter. You're a selfish mess.
And to you, I say, get yourself together.

Speaker 3 (04:07):
There this this letter right here. I just don't like
the lady at all. I mean, lady, I just don't
like you. I don't I don't like anything about you.
I don't like anything about what you wrote in this letter.
I agree to surely one hundred percent, but you just you,
you took trifling to just a whole another level.

Speaker 2 (04:28):
Uh, you know, just listen to the way she talks.

Speaker 3 (04:30):
I'm married to my college sweetheart and he's a great man,
but we don't get along now. I wore the pants
in our family for years because I made the most money.
Back then, all he could do is please me and
cater to me. I got used to it and it
worked fine for me. He couldn't wait to get a
better paying job, and he has swent back to wearing
the pants in our marriage. Girl has grem explains, I

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don't give it, moham. Much money I made, you know,
I'm not gonna take the pass off in a month,
and I'm not wearing the skirt at no point in
the relationship. And I'm pretty sure that he didn't agree
to taking his pants off. You took him off because
your determination for what he is as a man was based.

Speaker 2 (05:15):
Purely on how much money he bought in.

Speaker 3 (05:17):
So right after he started his new job, he started
mouthing off and telling me he wasn't gonna do this,
or that I let him do it because I know
for years he couldn't talk slick to me because he
was broke.

Speaker 2 (05:30):
Then who are you, lady, I mean, just.

Speaker 3 (05:34):
You can't talk back to me because you broken.

Speaker 2 (05:39):
Time, lady, you don't even understand, so listen.

Speaker 3 (05:45):
So here's the funny part though, now that he's got
a new job, it came with a new level of stress,
and that stress, the stress has led to high blood pressure,
and that high blood pressure led to an increase in
his medication, so that led to him not being able
to perform sexually. He has been a miserable wreck for
a year, and I have gone on with my life

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without him. Wow, lady, everything about you. You don't stand
by your man if he broke. You don't stand by
your man if he gets sick. You don't stand by
your man if he can't perform. You do you just don't?
Why did you? You don't stand by your man under
no circumstances. You're just a little trifling little wife. He

(06:30):
got to be working performing. Yeah, I got more of you,
all right?

Speaker 1 (06:36):
Well, have part two of Steve's response. You just heard
him say he has more for the woman in this
letter coming up at twenty three minutes after the hour
Today's Strawberry Letter subject He's never satisfied.

Speaker 2 (06:48):
But I am.

Speaker 1 (06:48):
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let's recap today's strawberry letter. The subject He's never satisfied,

(07:32):
but I am.

Speaker 3 (07:34):
Yeah, yeah, you are, because you just do what you
want to do. Your marriage college, sweetheart, things fell apart.
He lost his job or whatever, wasn't making money, so
you put the pants on in the family. And because
of that, all he could do was please you and
cater to you.

Speaker 2 (07:49):
You got used to it, and it work fine for me.

Speaker 3 (07:52):
But you said, you know, he couldn't wait till he
got a better paying job so he could get back
to wearing the pants and our mess. Well, he did,
but the job came with some stress. Stress came with
high blood pressure. High blood pressure came with increasing medicine
and increasing medicine calls him not to be able to perform. Second,
then you said, he's been a miserable wreck for a year.
I've gone on with my life without him.

Speaker 2 (08:14):
Boy.

Speaker 3 (08:15):
So, if you don't make money around you, you in trouble.
If you get stressed out around you, he's in trouble.
If he can't perform, he gets in trouble. He got problem,
and then you just go on your life without it.
I have a man on the side, and he comes
over to the house on Mondays and we meet at

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a hotel on Thursdays.

Speaker 2 (08:39):
Wait a minute, what so you got a.

Speaker 3 (08:42):
Man on the side that comes over to y'all's house
on Monday, and then y'all meet at a hotel on Thursday.

Speaker 2 (08:51):
So hold on, hold on, hold on. I gotta keep
going back over this.

Speaker 3 (08:55):
So, if you don't have money, you ain't.

Speaker 2 (08:58):
Cool with that.

Speaker 3 (09:00):
If he get back to work and he put his
pants back on, you ain't cool with that. If he
gets stressed out, you ain't cool with that. If he's
on hot blood medication, you ain't cool with that. If
he can't perform sexually, you ain't cool with that. Now
you go get a man on the side and cause
of convenience.

Speaker 2 (09:20):
Y'all now at this man's house in his bed.

Speaker 3 (09:25):
On Mondays and we meet at a hotel on Thursday.

Speaker 2 (09:29):
And then you say it's not about the sex. What
is it about? Then?

Speaker 3 (09:33):
What are y'all over there doing? And when y'all get
the hotel and y'all come over to the house, it's
just nice to talk to a man that has his
stuff together. Oh you're talking about a man.

Speaker 2 (09:44):
Oh oh, oh oh. Let me get this right.

Speaker 3 (09:46):
So you think that it's nice to just meet a
man that don't have to deal with nothing that comes
in the package called marriage. You're talking about the one
that don't have to pay bills, that don't have to discuss,
that don't have to be undistressed, that ain't trying to
make a life, that ain't trying to put a together. Yeah,
this conversation is easy because they ain't about nothing. That's
why that's so easy. And then he's not stressed about

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me being married. And he's not afraid to make love
to me in my bedroom that I shared with my husband.
You don't see the triflingness in that he's not afraid
to make love to me.

Speaker 2 (10:23):
I would, Hey, man, let.

Speaker 3 (10:24):
Me tell you something let me tell you, I wish
I would walk in my house. I wish I would
I wish I would walk in my house and walk
up on somebody in my house. You ain't even got
to be doing nothing just now. You ain't got to
be in the bed just being what you in here for.
I've been not walking house, seat up in here eating. No,
you can't have a plate now. I don't know yet

(10:46):
if I don't know you, and you in my house
and you're eating a plate of food before my wife
can introduce me.

Speaker 2 (10:54):
She already can tell by the look on my face.

Speaker 3 (10:58):
I got to get some information to this food right quick,
right quick.

Speaker 2 (11:03):
But now you done take it there.

Speaker 3 (11:04):
So now it's not like my husband without putting that
mattress to use anymore. I try to tune out my
husband's constant complaining about his job, and I'm tired of
him getting himself riled up for six when he knows
he can't last for thirty seconds. I'm over him and
this marriage. Maybe if he had a better attitude, I
could deal with it. Wait a minute while, If he

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had a better attitude, you could deal with it. Having
an affair is the easiest way out for me.

Speaker 2 (11:33):
Really, really, I.

Speaker 3 (11:35):
Mean, your whole demeanor as a human being weeks of triflingness.
I mean, you're just a trifling chick man all the
way around the board.

Speaker 2 (11:45):
It ain't a woman sitting here. I got you, girl.

Speaker 3 (11:47):
I know where you're coming from, and I'm pretty sure
it is somebody like that, because people are You can
get people, go along with anything, but they's just trifling too.
Life is too short to be unsatisfied. So how can
I live like that?

Speaker 2 (12:01):
You're not.

Speaker 3 (12:02):
You're not living like that. You're doing what you want
to do. Do you think he's thinking of divorce as
much as I am? Should I try to work it
out if it seems if he seems not to care,
Wait a minute, you're already working it out.

Speaker 2 (12:23):
You don't see what you've done.

Speaker 3 (12:25):
You've already worked it out your way, and what you're
talking about whether he can you don't care. So why
are you questioning your your husband in this letter at all?
With everything in this lest your First of all, your
husband ain't did nothing wrong. He at work, he stretched out,
he tried to get the finances back in order. That struck,
he got high blood. Now he taking medication. Now he

(12:48):
can't perform now you've got you a man. Now y'all
having sex in y'all's house, in y'all's bed on Mondays
and at a hotel on Thursday. Now you want to
know if your husband would want to do it. I'm
telling you right now, lady, you messing around with someone,
You're on a dangerous ground. And this man who comes

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to your house every Monday, what kind of fool is this?
What man in his right mind goes to another man's
house gets naked in his house, in his bed. I
don't understand the mentality of that. Both of y'all will
mess around, get hurt. I don't know nobody to do that,

(13:32):
no man?

Speaker 1 (13:34):
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