August 27, 2018 • 14 mins
Dear Steve and Shirley, My wife and I met when we were 12 years old and we got married when we were 20 years old. We've been married for 15 years and we were very happy until recently. Now I need help to save my marriage. Three years ago I cheated on my wife and got another woman pregnant. I told my wife about the affair and the baby. My wife was going to divorce me but we went to marriage counseling and she had a change of heart. My wife welcomed the baby into our family and she has grown to love the child.......
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Buggle up and hold on tight. We got it for you.
Here it is. It is the Strawberry letter. Subject. I
cheated twice and had three outside children. Dear Stephen Shirley.
My wife and I met when we were twelve years old,
and we got married when we were twenty years old.
We've been married for fifteen years and we were very
happy until recently. Now I need help to save my marriage.
(00:24):
Three years ago, I cheated on my wife and got
another woman pregnant. I told my wife about the affair
and the baby. My wife was going to divorce me,
but we went to marriage counseling and she had a
change of heart. My wife welcomed the baby into our
family and she has grown to love the child. A
year later, I had sex with my wife's stepmother. My
(00:46):
wife and her stepmother are the same age, and her
stepmother is very attractive. It was a one night stand
with the stepmother, but she got pregnant and had twins.
We passed the pregnancy off as if she were pregnant
by her husband, and there was no reason for anyone
to question it. We never told anyone about our big secret. Well,
(01:08):
it all came out in the worst way. About three
months ago, my wife and her stepmother got into a
really bad argument, and the stepmother told my wife that
the twins were actually her stepson's and not her brothers.
She told my wife that she has had she has
d n A a DNA test to prove it all.
(01:29):
Hell broke loose. I admitted to my wife and my
wife's father that the twins are my sons. My wife
hasn't spoken to me since then. My wife's father filed
for divorce. I'm afraid my wife is going to file
for divorce too. I don't want to get a divorce.
What can I do to get my wife back? Please advise?
(01:50):
What can I do to get my wife back? You
ask nothing, nothing, nothing, There's nothing you can do nothing.
It's too late. You messed up. I mean you messed
up now once but twice. You don't deserve your wife.
You do not deserve her. She took you back the
first time after you cheated and had a kid, and
(02:12):
instead of you being grateful to God and straightening up
your act and doing the right thing, you go out
and do it again to someone who's close to home,
with your step mom, really, your wife's stepmother. I think
you're disrespectful. I think you're crazy and you know what else,
I think you're pretty arrogant at this point to even
think that you still have a chance after what you've done. Uh.
(02:34):
Like I said in the beginning, nothing nothing, nothing, only God,
okay himself can can save you now. And and that
is it. I mean, you say you don't want a divorce,
but you've done everything, everything possible to kill and destroy
your marriage. I'm surprised your wife is still there. I
think that you're a selfish person. You're reckless with it.
(02:56):
And uh, just remember you reap what you saw and
you've been doing this behind your wife's back, and this
is the result of your actions. So if she, if
she doesn't take you back, that's what you deserve at
this point, Steve, I don't know why you wrote exactly
(03:17):
damn letter? What what? What do you want us to do? We, sir,
we can't help you, sir. This ain't therapy. The only
one can help you helped you already when he put
it on her heart to take you back. Let me
(03:40):
read to you what you said. Sometimes you need to
hear this out loud. Three years ago, I cheated on
my wife. I got another woman, pregnant. I told my
wife about the fan and the baby. My wife was
going to divorce me, but when went the marriage counseling,
she had to change her heart. My wife welcomed the
baby into family, and she's grown to love the child.
(04:04):
So you figured, with all this happy going on, all
this new love, extra family members, your dumb mass thought
you are to go out and get some more kids.
Oh yeah, match counseling. Then grown to love her and
(04:27):
it's raised it. She's a part of my family. Let's
get another Just get some more family. Now, So you
go out, you don't get anybody. You get her stepmother,
which is the same age as your wife, which means
she's married to an older man, which is your father
(04:48):
in law. M you sleep with her, she get pregnant.
Hair twigs got this old ass dude thinking he's still
bringing it. He didn't know the new You don't know
what he grappling with. What are you doing up? He
(05:11):
thinks he thinking he handing it, he bringing it. He
think he got it, gonna win on, but he don't.
And now he got to deal with that. This is crazy, man.
Your mother in law is pregnant. Now what happened was
your wife and your mother in law got in the
(05:31):
big argument, and the news came out, as you say,
in the worst way. She told my way that listen
to this part though this came out in the worst way.
My wife and her stepmother got into a really bad argument,
and the stepmother told my wife that the twins was
(05:52):
actually her stepsons and not her brother's. Where was you at, hey, y'all,
I need to know what you're standing there when she said,
(06:14):
and you're watching your wife argue with your stepmma that
you have slept with us, pregnant with kids of yours,
and then she tell her you don't know what you're
talking about. I got news for you, then your brothers,
then your step sons. Me and I had his baby
he should live and art him and started left town.
(06:38):
How you're able to type this letter is beyond man.
Because he thinks I figured were in the department eight
team flows high. If I die about this, wonder it'll
feel better than me standing in the share this in
for me, right alright. We weren't gonna say nothing, hang on,
hang on, I know you have more. We're gonna have purpose.
(07:02):
We breed to this man and cheated on his wife.
Got another girl pregnant, came in, told his wife about
the fan and the baby. Wife gonna leave him. They
go to counseling, They work it out, she accepts the baby.
She accept the baby into the family and loves the
child like it's her own. Okay, m hm, you go
(07:26):
out again. This time you get the girl's mama. You
sleep with her mama cause they the same age, dating
her old as daddy, then married him. You then gave
a woman a baby, your wife and your mother in
law step mother having a fan to have a baby.
(07:48):
And the way it came out was your wife got
an argument with her, and she flipped the script and
told the news Jathany brown Man, what I need for
you to be. Yes, I'm gonna be the dude. Yes,
you're arguing with my wife. Yes, yes, I'm listening. Uhuh,
(08:17):
I'm I'm the lady who had the affair with I'm
telling your wife. Yeah I do. I do one part
and you're hearing the other part. We ain't talking about
the wife. The wife is right, yeah, right, So you
just do the one part and I'll be the dude
over here listening to this happen. Yeah, yeah, you just
listen to what I'm saying. But I'm trying to might
(08:37):
try to get in there. You might try to get
in and here we go. I'm I'm the mother in law.
See what you don't know? What you ladies, ladies don't
need no, no, no, no no, you don't know what.
Everything s everybody but but mama, everybody our northything. Everybody
(09:01):
needs to notice because we all walking around like we
know something, but we don't know what. God damn it,
we're about to know. Okay, that's just that's just don't
for a while. Listen, baby, listen, I mean mama or not,
but not don't talk to me. Okay, do not talk
to me, but I'm tru not. Look, do not talk
(09:23):
to me, because when I say what I got to say,
everybody's gonna be quiet up in here. When I get drinks.
Hold listen, everybody's gonna be looking stupid. Hold on, hold on,
hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold Lord,
That makes you see I've been trying us around for
a long time. You're having birthday cakes on the God
(09:48):
you know, going to check the cheese and stuff, and
I ain't saying a damn thing what Dad today? That Lord,
I'm hiding. You know, I'm letting you take off your
play brothers, but damn it, your truth. You're ready, God,
(10:12):
You're ready, your way, your whole whoever you wanted to
know is live. It's coming out today. You know, Dems
not your brother Jesus at all, dim is not your brother?
(10:36):
Me enough fool right here now, I know he's gonna
hear with you one time, No, damn one time. We're
gonna hit this once and not ever wanted a year?
What what that? That's that's insulting to me because it's
just it. He Oh, we just hit the one thing hit.
(10:57):
Ain't hitting using for a love? What is ship talking
about talking about? I'm telling about that man, your husband,
you my baby daddy? Whoa what she said? What in
(11:24):
case y'all didn't hear me? Litten to me again your Loveland.
Look at all the roaches killing baby roaches in here?
Y'all just gonna let him work riding here. Oh y'all
don't see him, but I see him. Your husband is
my baby daddy. Want anybody won't talk to me, I'll
(11:50):
be in living room. Be nice, creaple your mama. Don't
you step your step mama? She im just saying, gonna
hear my crop, he hears you. You didn't done it bad.
(12:14):
You gotta line. You're too late to call on him now,
you can't call on him after the fact. That's that's
when the loves gave you on y'all lords say it's
gonna be good for you teaching moment. I got your
(12:38):
Y'all't rip it. You know what I'm saying. She's gonna
just file something like that, But it ain't. Your voice
is high ready, It's not like anywhere would Who is
that saying I was going back and the money? No me, God,
(13:05):
I don't know who the little boys. Where are your brothers?
We're coming to find out there your son wow? Wow
yeah yeah. And then you do about that, and you
don't know why he wrote the letter and his wife,
(13:26):
I mean, she took the first kid in and grew
to love the first child, and you go out and
do it again, no, sir. And and here's what the
first kids just getting in close and here you come
messing up every day. Right all right, guys, we gotta
get out of here. You can email us your instagram us, yeah, yeah,
(13:50):
email us her instagram. What's your thoughts on Today's Strawberry
Letter At Steve Harvey f M. You're listening to the
Steve Harvey Morning Show
Buggle up and hold on tight. We got it for you.
Here it is. It is the Strawberry letter. Subject. I
cheated twice and had three outside children. Dear Stephen Shirley.
My wife and I met when we were twelve years old,
and we got married when we were twenty years old.
We've been married for fifteen years and we were very
happy until recently. Now I need help to save my marriage.
(00:24):
Three years ago, I cheated on my wife and got
another woman pregnant. I told my wife about the affair
and the baby. My wife was going to divorce me,
but we went to marriage counseling and she had a
change of heart. My wife welcomed the baby into our
family and she has grown to love the child. A
year later, I had sex with my wife's stepmother. My
(00:46):
wife and her stepmother are the same age, and her
stepmother is very attractive. It was a one night stand
with the stepmother, but she got pregnant and had twins.
We passed the pregnancy off as if she were pregnant
by her husband, and there was no reason for anyone
to question it. We never told anyone about our big secret. Well,
(01:08):
it all came out in the worst way. About three
months ago, my wife and her stepmother got into a
really bad argument, and the stepmother told my wife that
the twins were actually her stepson's and not her brothers.
She told my wife that she has had she has
d n A a DNA test to prove it all.
(01:29):
Hell broke loose. I admitted to my wife and my
wife's father that the twins are my sons. My wife
hasn't spoken to me since then. My wife's father filed
for divorce. I'm afraid my wife is going to file
for divorce too. I don't want to get a divorce.
What can I do to get my wife back? Please advise?
(01:50):
What can I do to get my wife back? You
ask nothing, nothing, nothing, There's nothing you can do nothing.
It's too late. You messed up. I mean you messed
up now once but twice. You don't deserve your wife.
You do not deserve her. She took you back the
first time after you cheated and had a kid, and
(02:12):
instead of you being grateful to God and straightening up
your act and doing the right thing, you go out
and do it again to someone who's close to home,
with your step mom, really, your wife's stepmother. I think
you're disrespectful. I think you're crazy and you know what else,
I think you're pretty arrogant at this point to even
think that you still have a chance after what you've done. Uh.
(02:34):
Like I said in the beginning, nothing nothing, nothing, only God,
okay himself can can save you now. And and that
is it. I mean, you say you don't want a divorce,
but you've done everything, everything possible to kill and destroy
your marriage. I'm surprised your wife is still there. I
think that you're a selfish person. You're reckless with it.
(02:56):
And uh, just remember you reap what you saw and
you've been doing this behind your wife's back, and this
is the result of your actions. So if she, if
she doesn't take you back, that's what you deserve at
this point, Steve, I don't know why you wrote exactly
(03:17):
damn letter? What what? What do you want us to do? We, sir,
we can't help you, sir. This ain't therapy. The only
one can help you helped you already when he put
it on her heart to take you back. Let me
(03:40):
read to you what you said. Sometimes you need to
hear this out loud. Three years ago, I cheated on
my wife. I got another woman, pregnant. I told my
wife about the fan and the baby. My wife was
going to divorce me, but when went the marriage counseling,
she had to change her heart. My wife welcomed the
baby into family, and she's grown to love the child.
(04:04):
So you figured, with all this happy going on, all
this new love, extra family members, your dumb mass thought
you are to go out and get some more kids.
Oh yeah, match counseling. Then grown to love her and
(04:27):
it's raised it. She's a part of my family. Let's
get another Just get some more family. Now, So you
go out, you don't get anybody. You get her stepmother,
which is the same age as your wife, which means
she's married to an older man, which is your father
(04:48):
in law. M you sleep with her, she get pregnant.
Hair twigs got this old ass dude thinking he's still
bringing it. He didn't know the new You don't know
what he grappling with. What are you doing up? He
(05:11):
thinks he thinking he handing it, he bringing it. He
think he got it, gonna win on, but he don't.
And now he got to deal with that. This is crazy, man.
Your mother in law is pregnant. Now what happened was
your wife and your mother in law got in the
(05:31):
big argument, and the news came out, as you say,
in the worst way. She told my way that listen
to this part though this came out in the worst way.
My wife and her stepmother got into a really bad argument,
and the stepmother told my wife that the twins was
(05:52):
actually her stepsons and not her brother's. Where was you at, hey, y'all,
I need to know what you're standing there when she said,
(06:14):
and you're watching your wife argue with your stepmma that
you have slept with us, pregnant with kids of yours,
and then she tell her you don't know what you're
talking about. I got news for you, then your brothers,
then your step sons. Me and I had his baby
he should live and art him and started left town.
(06:38):
How you're able to type this letter is beyond man.
Because he thinks I figured were in the department eight
team flows high. If I die about this, wonder it'll
feel better than me standing in the share this in
for me, right alright. We weren't gonna say nothing, hang on,
hang on, I know you have more. We're gonna have purpose.
(07:02):
We breed to this man and cheated on his wife.
Got another girl pregnant, came in, told his wife about
the fan and the baby. Wife gonna leave him. They
go to counseling, They work it out, she accepts the baby.
She accept the baby into the family and loves the
child like it's her own. Okay, m hm, you go
(07:26):
out again. This time you get the girl's mama. You
sleep with her mama cause they the same age, dating
her old as daddy, then married him. You then gave
a woman a baby, your wife and your mother in
law step mother having a fan to have a baby.
(07:48):
And the way it came out was your wife got
an argument with her, and she flipped the script and
told the news Jathany brown Man, what I need for
you to be. Yes, I'm gonna be the dude. Yes,
you're arguing with my wife. Yes, yes, I'm listening. Uhuh,
(08:17):
I'm I'm the lady who had the affair with I'm
telling your wife. Yeah I do. I do one part
and you're hearing the other part. We ain't talking about
the wife. The wife is right, yeah, right, So you
just do the one part and I'll be the dude
over here listening to this happen. Yeah, yeah, you just
listen to what I'm saying. But I'm trying to might
(08:37):
try to get in there. You might try to get
in and here we go. I'm I'm the mother in law.
See what you don't know? What you ladies, ladies don't
need no, no, no, no no, you don't know what.
Everything s everybody but but mama, everybody our northything. Everybody
(09:01):
needs to notice because we all walking around like we
know something, but we don't know what. God damn it,
we're about to know. Okay, that's just that's just don't
for a while. Listen, baby, listen, I mean mama or not,
but not don't talk to me. Okay, do not talk
to me, but I'm tru not. Look, do not talk
(09:23):
to me, because when I say what I got to say,
everybody's gonna be quiet up in here. When I get drinks.
Hold listen, everybody's gonna be looking stupid. Hold on, hold on,
hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold Lord,
That makes you see I've been trying us around for
a long time. You're having birthday cakes on the God
(09:48):
you know, going to check the cheese and stuff, and
I ain't saying a damn thing what Dad today? That Lord,
I'm hiding. You know, I'm letting you take off your
play brothers, but damn it, your truth. You're ready, God,
(10:12):
You're ready, your way, your whole whoever you wanted to
know is live. It's coming out today. You know, Dems
not your brother Jesus at all, dim is not your brother?
(10:36):
Me enough fool right here now, I know he's gonna
hear with you one time, No, damn one time. We're
gonna hit this once and not ever wanted a year?
What what that? That's that's insulting to me because it's
just it. He Oh, we just hit the one thing hit.
(10:57):
Ain't hitting using for a love? What is ship talking
about talking about? I'm telling about that man, your husband,
you my baby daddy? Whoa what she said? What in
(11:24):
case y'all didn't hear me? Litten to me again your Loveland.
Look at all the roaches killing baby roaches in here?
Y'all just gonna let him work riding here. Oh y'all
don't see him, but I see him. Your husband is
my baby daddy. Want anybody won't talk to me, I'll
(11:50):
be in living room. Be nice, creaple your mama. Don't
you step your step mama? She im just saying, gonna
hear my crop, he hears you. You didn't done it bad.
(12:14):
You gotta line. You're too late to call on him now,
you can't call on him after the fact. That's that's
when the loves gave you on y'all lords say it's
gonna be good for you teaching moment. I got your
(12:38):
Y'all't rip it. You know what I'm saying. She's gonna
just file something like that, But it ain't. Your voice
is high ready, It's not like anywhere would Who is
that saying I was going back and the money? No me, God,
(13:05):
I don't know who the little boys. Where are your brothers?
We're coming to find out there your son wow? Wow
yeah yeah. And then you do about that, and you
don't know why he wrote the letter and his wife,
(13:26):
I mean, she took the first kid in and grew
to love the first child, and you go out and
do it again, no, sir. And and here's what the
first kids just getting in close and here you come
messing up every day. Right all right, guys, we gotta
get out of here. You can email us your instagram us, yeah, yeah,
(13:50):
email us her instagram. What's your thoughts on Today's Strawberry
Letter At Steve Harvey f M. You're listening to the
Steve Harvey Morning Show
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