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September 15, 2025 13 mins

The Strawberry Letter, heard on The Steve Harvey Morning Show, Monday, September 15th, 2025. Subject: "His Past Won't Let Him Last"

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It is time now for today's Strawberry Letter, and if
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Speaker 2 (00:20):
It could be yours.

Speaker 3 (00:21):
Buckle up, hold on tight. We got it for you.
Here it is Strawberry Letter.

Speaker 2 (00:25):
Thank you.

Speaker 1 (00:25):
Nephew's subject his past won't let him last. Dear Stephen Shirley,
I'm dating a man that is so tied to his
past that it won't let him last. We're not going
to make it because he's always talking to his ex
girlfriends and his ex wife. He has a child in
his life that's not his, but he told me that
the boy will always be a part of his life.

(00:47):
His ex girlfriend was pregnant when they started dating, and
he raised the child for three years. Then they broke
up and he got married. The ex wife let the
boy come over and spend time at the house. Now
that I'm I don't have time for the boy because
his mother is not nice to me. She calls my
boyfriend and expects him to talk to her until she

(01:09):
gets home, and if she's out, she drops her location
to him or shares her uber information with him like
he's her protector. He says he is nice to her
because she is a single woman and he wants to
be sure she's safe. I feel like he is out
of line and she is too. Then there's his ex
wife that he's had sex with in the past six months,

(01:30):
right before we met. He is honest about everything, and
I can't take it. On one hand, I appreciate his honesty,
but then I can't handle it once I know what
he's done. I'm not friends with any of my exes
and they can't call me.

Speaker 2 (01:46):
That's just me.

Speaker 1 (01:47):
My boyfriend doesn't understand why I can't be friends with
my exes, and he thinks it's a character flaw. We
can't get on the same page about anything when it
comes to his past and mine. I thought I was
being real respectful by cutting off my exes, and.

Speaker 2 (02:02):
He said that's not normal.

Speaker 1 (02:04):
It's a crazy conflict we have, and it seems like
we are compatible in every way, except that I don't
want to fall in love with him and have to
share him with these women from his past.

Speaker 2 (02:14):
I'm thinking of leaving him. Is this a wise decision
or not? All right? Is anybody else confused? I'm so confused.
Are you dating this man?

Speaker 1 (02:26):
Are you married to this man? Is he is he
your husband? Is he your boyfriend? Are you married and
writing us about your boyfriend? I'm very confused right now,
And yes, leaving him would be a wise decision. You're unhappy.
Your man is still talking to his exes. He's not
going to stop. If he was that into you, he
will respect your wishes about not communicating with these women.

(02:49):
None of them respect you. He doesn't, for sure, and
you know that. But the girl that's calling him all
the time, dropping her location and all that, she has
no regard for what you and him have going on.

Speaker 2 (02:59):
He probably didn't even tell her. I don't know. I
don't know what's going on in this letter. I have
no idea.

Speaker 1 (03:05):
You say you don't want to fall in love with him, Well,
don't fall in love with him because he doesn't love you.
And you better hope your husband doesn't find out. Steve,
what is going on?

Speaker 3 (03:17):
I'm so confused.

Speaker 1 (03:18):
If she married, does she have a boyfriend?

Speaker 4 (03:22):
Let me just read the letter back and maybe you
all can help me and Shirley out his past. Won't
let him let this Stephen, Shirley, I'm dating a man
that so tides his past. It won't let him last.
We are not going to make it because he's always
talking to his ex girlfriends and his ex wife. He's
got a child in his life that's not his, but

(03:43):
he told me that the boy will always be a
part of his life. His ex girlfriend was pregnant when
they started dating, and he raised the child three years.

Speaker 3 (03:51):
Let's stop right here for a minute.

Speaker 4 (03:53):
What dude, you know he always talked to you of
that's wife. I ain't got no conversation with none of them.
They axes for a reason. A lot of people can't
move forward because they because because they.

Speaker 3 (04:09):
Keep living in the past. Here the part that got me.

Speaker 4 (04:12):
His ex girlfriend was pregnant when they started dating, and
he raised chuck foot. Excuse me, say what you want
to say about me? I ain't that good a man.
I meet you, you pregnant?

Speaker 3 (04:26):
We dating?

Speaker 2 (04:27):
What he raises a baby?

Speaker 3 (04:30):
No? No, no, we dating? And congratulations y'all? Oh that's not mine?
Doog right at the gate?

Speaker 5 (04:38):
Right?

Speaker 3 (04:39):
No? No, no, no, no, I'm not finna say that. Man.

Speaker 4 (04:42):
Y'all look so happy together, Well we just got together.
That's somebody else.

Speaker 3 (04:46):
Dating, ain't. I ain't there. Excuse me.

Speaker 4 (04:50):
If anybody had a man that did that, congratulations you
found a real ramin.

Speaker 3 (04:55):
I ain't that rap.

Speaker 2 (04:58):
Called will call me regularly.

Speaker 4 (05:01):
And most men I know anyway. Then they broke up
and he got married. So this guy got married. The
ex wife let the boy come over and spend time
at the house. So I'm assuming that him and the
wife that he married got divorced, but then as an

(05:22):
ex they still let him come over.

Speaker 3 (05:26):
Then the letter.

Speaker 4 (05:27):
Takes another dog turn and it says, now that I'm married,
I don't have time for the boy because his mother
is not nice to me. Who got married? Who got married?
Did you by me the dude that had the ex wife?
And now you ain't got time for the boy? Okay,
I don't know. She calls my boyfriend and expect what boyfriend?

(05:52):
I thought you got married?

Speaker 2 (05:55):
Right?

Speaker 4 (05:56):
She calls my boyfriend and expects him to talk to
her till she gets home if she's out, and then
she drops her location to share her uber information with him.
It's too much. This let us too much. I'm pissed
off at your writing skills. You don't know how to
tell us story.

Speaker 3 (06:15):
This ignorant letter. We can't help you chause you're not
telling us she.

Speaker 2 (06:20):
Married with the Is she married with a boyfriend?

Speaker 3 (06:23):
I don't know who she.

Speaker 2 (06:24):
Don't I'm so confused.

Speaker 4 (06:27):
We can't help you married. We don't know who your
boyfriend is? Who is the husband? I'm really all right. Hold,
I'm starting not to care about this little boy. Note Moose,
we can't nothing about the baby no more.

Speaker 1 (06:43):
Been twenty three minutes after the hour, we got part
two of the Strawberry letter. His paths won't let him laught.
We'll get back into it right after this.

Speaker 2 (06:52):
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Strawberry letter.

Speaker 1 (07:29):
If we can, and try to finish up your response.
This is confusing.

Speaker 4 (07:33):
First, well, y'all, this woman says she ain't gonna make
it because her man is always talking to his ex
girlfriends and his ex wife. Then he got a child
as not he is because when he met this girl
she was pregnant.

Speaker 3 (07:45):
He started dating. Why she was pregnant? Who this guy is?
I don't know.

Speaker 4 (07:49):
There are men who can do that. There's a special
men congratulation. I tipped my hat to you. I ain't
that special.

Speaker 3 (07:55):
You can. You're gonna have to have had this baby.
We do not care. The baby wasn't no where.

Speaker 2 (08:01):
This is not about you.

Speaker 4 (08:03):
I'm not feeding all these people, not right now, not
right now, always about it.

Speaker 3 (08:08):
All this, all this, all this, I'm eating for two.
You aren't you.

Speaker 2 (08:11):
Eating for two?

Speaker 3 (08:16):
I don't know who the who? Who? Who? The two eggs?
I don't know where to come from.

Speaker 4 (08:20):
And I've chol didn't help make them, so I'm not
fenn to help.

Speaker 3 (08:22):
Just right here, you stop now.

Speaker 4 (08:24):
When they live human beings I could deal with that,
but I ain't in with embryo bish fertilization.

Speaker 3 (08:31):
No, no, he don't tell me, Steve. This ran a
lot so confusion.

Speaker 4 (08:35):
I got every right to sound like I'm sounding frustrate.
Then she's talking about they broke up and he got married,
and the ex wife let the boy come over and
spend time at the house.

Speaker 3 (08:44):
Now that I'm married, poo woo.

Speaker 4 (08:47):
Now she says, now I'm married, I don't have time
for the boy because his mother not nice to me. Okay,
somewhere in there, I think the lady in the letter
got married.

Speaker 3 (08:56):
She calls my boyfriend.

Speaker 4 (08:58):
Yeah, but now she calls my boyfriend, So I'm thinking
this boyfriend is on the side.

Speaker 2 (09:03):
Yeah, it's her husband and.

Speaker 4 (09:07):
Expects him to talk to her till she get home
and she's out and she drops on location in him
or shares her uber information with him, like he's her protective.

Speaker 2 (09:16):
Well, she's married to him and she's got a boyfriend.

Speaker 4 (09:19):
He says he's nice to her because she's a single
woman and she wants he wants to be sure she's safe.
I feel like he's out of line and she is too.
Then there's his ex wife that he had sex with
in the past six months right before we met. Oh
wait a minute, so you're not married to this dude?
He had sex with his ex wife six months right

(09:42):
before you met.

Speaker 3 (09:44):
That watched this. He is honest about everything, and I
can't take it.

Speaker 2 (09:49):
I knew you were gonna I knew you were going
to hone in on that line. I knew you were.

Speaker 3 (09:54):
Did y'all hear this, Yes, we did.

Speaker 2 (09:56):
But she's crazy.

Speaker 3 (09:57):
Did you hear that he is about everything?

Speaker 4 (10:02):
But first of all, she said, he's honest about everything,
and I can't take it. On the other hand, I
appreciate his honesty, but then I can't handle it once
I know what he's done.

Speaker 2 (10:12):
That doesn't make your case in your or your point.

Speaker 3 (10:14):
The more of this.

Speaker 4 (10:15):
Story is they we know everything you've done because they
can't handle it. They said it in the movie Tommy
probably know the name of the movie. You do can't
handle the truth I've been when he said that, right,
it was about women. When I heard.

Speaker 3 (10:41):
You can't have it.

Speaker 4 (10:43):
We can't get on the same page about anything. When
he comes to his past and mind, I thought he's
being respectful by cutting off. Thought I was being respectful
by cutting off my axes, and he said, it's not normal.
It's a crazy conflict that we have. And it seems
like we're compatible in every way except that y'all ain't
compatible at all.

Speaker 3 (11:00):
I don't want to fall in love with him. You
ain't fall in love with who? Who is?

Speaker 1 (11:07):
He?

Speaker 2 (11:08):
Nothing to do with love?

Speaker 3 (11:10):
And it ain't You can't fall in love with him.

Speaker 4 (11:11):
You got to fall in love with him and everybody
he got because he don't cut nobody.

Speaker 2 (11:16):
Loose in your packet, and and they.

Speaker 4 (11:20):
Have to fall in love with him. And I have
to share him with these women from his past. I'm
thinking of leaving him. Is this a wise decision? Why
ain't you gone leave?

Speaker 3 (11:31):
Why are you still here? Why did you write us?

Speaker 1 (11:34):
So?

Speaker 4 (11:34):
Let me tell you what me and Shirley don't care about. Well,
let me just speak for myself, a Sheirley at a
high level of Christian than I am.

Speaker 2 (11:41):
What I might agree today.

Speaker 4 (11:44):
Let's start with this right here. I don't give it
about this too. Don't we gonna start here? Nothing any
of his ex girlfriends. I don't care about his ex wife.
I don't really care for the fact that he met
a woman pregnant and started date I don't care about that.
I don't care that he raised the child for three

(12:05):
years and they broke up when he got married. I
don't care nothing about him sleeping with his ex month
ex wife six months for y'all, man, I don't care
if I'm really sure if you just married or not.
I don't care if this dude is your boyfriend on
the side. And the big news is, I'm really starting

(12:26):
not to care about this child. And this child ain't
had nothing to do with the baby. Get about this
baby right now. This baby was born into it. Leave
the baby out of it.

Speaker 2 (12:36):
Yeah, don't put the baby in it.

Speaker 3 (12:38):
He was born into the confusion. The baby is not
in it.

Speaker 2 (12:42):
He's in the letter.

Speaker 4 (12:43):
And they tired of the baby because somebody got married
in this letter.

Speaker 3 (12:47):
We don't know who it is.

Speaker 4 (12:49):
And they tired of the baby because now they married,
So now everybody's tired of baby. Why I can't be
tired of baby.

Speaker 2 (12:57):
I'm tired of reading the letter. They're married and she's
got a boyfriend.

Speaker 3 (13:02):
On the side. Disaster listen too much. Let me say
something about straw.

Speaker 4 (13:11):
If your life is fish jacked up, don't write because
we can't help you and learn how to write, read,
and comprehension. Nobody know what you're talking about. This low
level prison letter you done sent me. You just learned
how to write last summer. If you've been in literature
whole life, and stay in literate, it ain't time to

(13:31):
write into a national radio show. And you got the
writing skill of a four yold.

Speaker 3 (13:35):
We don't.

Speaker 2 (13:38):
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