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The Strawberry Letter heard on The Steve Harvey Morning Show Thursday, January 15th, 2026. Subject: "I Know What I Saw"

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 1 (00:27):
Subject. I know what I saw, Dear Stephen Shirley. My
husband gaslights me whenever he is in trouble. I have
caught him talking to a woman on his phone, and
I saw his car was parked close to his ex
girlfriend's house, but not in front of it.

Speaker 2 (00:43):
When he was on the phone with a woman.

Speaker 1 (00:45):
He said he was trying to calm the woman down
because his brother broke up with her. I heard him
tell the woman that she spoiled and it's the sex
that got her so hooked. Why would he tell his
brother's ex girl that he was clearly talking about them,
having said her falling for him. He denied everything and
deleted her info from his phone, so I could not

(01:07):
call her. His brother even lied for him. Then there's
a time when his car was parked by his ex's house.
He said that there's a bar and a convenience store
by his ex's house, so I can assume that he
was visiting her, but he wasn't. I'm no fool, but
he continues to treat me like I am stupid. The

(01:27):
final straw was when I walked in on him with
his pants down his knees to his knees with his
phone in his hand. I know for a fact he
was taking pictures of his manhood to send to a woman.
But he said he had a reaction to laundry detergent
and he was itching down there, so he used I

(01:47):
knew you were going to high five this one, so
he used the camera on his phone to see if
maybe some ants were since see maybe if some ants
were down there.

Speaker 2 (02:07):
I just rolled my eyes and walked out.

Speaker 1 (02:09):
The next day, I saw four pictures he'd taken with
his manhood in his hand. I know what I saw,
and I was right from the jump. He keeps telling
me that I want him to be the bad guy,
so I come up with stories in my head and
believe them. Really now, he said, I want him to

(02:30):
be a cheater. I want him to be a cheater,
but he's not. I am tired of his games. How
do I get my husband to be honest with me?
Face exists? I mean, he's not going to be honest
with you.

Speaker 2 (02:43):
He's just not.

Speaker 1 (02:44):
He's had several opportunities you cited them in the letter,
several opportunities to come clean and tell you the truth,
but he just won't do it. He had a lie
for every single situation you caught him in. Some men
just lie just because they can. You know, lying works
for them because whoever they're lying to, their wives or

(03:04):
partners or whatever, believe what they tell them. Other men
lie because they can't take a woman's fury when she
catches him or even suspects him. They say, we can't
handle the truth, but they can't handle our reaction to
the truth.

Speaker 2 (03:20):
That's all it is. We still want to hear it.

Speaker 1 (03:23):
They want to do whatever they want, then come back
and lie to us and our faces like we're stupid.
They don't know whether we can handle the truth or not.
Why don't they know that? Because they don't tell us
the truth, they lie they're big and bad enough to cheat,
but you know, too scared to admit it when.

Speaker 2 (03:40):
They get caught red handed.

Speaker 1 (03:43):
And we know they're lying, that's the thing. They know it.
Most women that I know hate liars. We're not stupid.
We know what we saw, just like you know what
you saw, and we can put two and two together
rather quickly. But for some reason, men they don't believe
it when we tell them we want the truth, the

(04:03):
truth matters. They just keep trying us until we explode.
Then we explode, they call us crazy. You see see
how this works?

Speaker 2 (04:13):
Do I sound bitter? Do I sound patty? Right now?
I feel good though, I feel good about it. I'm
not mad.

Speaker 3 (04:22):
I feel good about it.

Speaker 1 (04:23):
At least I told you the truth. I'm not high
fiving your husband for lying. This may not have answered
your question. I don't know, but I sure feel better.

Speaker 2 (04:32):
That's all I can say. I feel good.

Speaker 4 (04:35):
See you sure Lord have mercy. I was looking at you.
I was looking at you on this zoom.

Speaker 3 (04:39):
I was going, what's wrong?

Speaker 2 (04:40):
Whatever?

Speaker 3 (04:41):
You ain't trying to help nobody. They all lie. They
lie when they know Because we want the truth, We'll
take the truth. No you can't.

Speaker 4 (04:49):
We can No, you can't. No, you can't. Now, see
I gotta change my whole answer. No, And I was
gonna try to help the lady, but no, how do
I get my husband to be honest with me? See, ladies,
well let's take a trip down the dog side. What

(05:12):
y'all need to be asking yourselves is not how can
I get my husband to be honest with me? You
need to.

Speaker 3 (05:19):
Ask yourself is why would he be honest with me?

Speaker 4 (05:24):
There has to be a reason, you know, ladies, men
don't do nothing without a reason.

Speaker 3 (05:29):
There has to be a reason. So now I'm gonna
walk you through.

Speaker 4 (05:33):
This letter filled with reasons. Reasons. Now, the latter is,
I know what I saw. The husband gaslights me whenever
he's in trouble. I caught him talking to a woman
on his phone. I saw his car was parked to
his girlfriend's house, but not in front of it. Now,

(05:56):
when he was on the phone with a woman, he
said he was trying to calm the woman down because
his brother broke up with him. I heard him tell
the woman she spoiled and it's the sex that got
her so hooked. Why would he tell his brother's ex
girl that because he was trying to keep them together.

(06:17):
His brother confided in him that she just tripping and
that you know, they was going through some stuff, and
he said, man, I'll be handling my business real well
with it, and that that's all it is right now. Man,
I think we just more in a sexual relationship than
anything else.

Speaker 3 (06:35):
But she won't mope.

Speaker 2 (06:37):
All right, Hang on, Steve, Hang on.

Speaker 1 (06:39):
We'll have part two of Steve's response coming up at
twenty three minutes after the hour. Today Strawberry Letters, subject,
I know what I saw right after this.

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Speaker 1 (07:28):
All right, come on, Steve, Let's recap today's Strawberry letter.
The subject is I know what I saw?

Speaker 4 (07:34):
You know this is a letter about Shirley says, a
man lies because we can't tell the truth. We just
lie all the time. You know, the women won't the truth?
And why can't y'all just be honest with us? It's
the question at the end of this thing, why can't
my husband just be honest with me? My question to

(07:55):
what women need to be asking is why would he
be honest? Because see and then Shirley says, because we
want the truth. And then you say that what men
always say, Well, you can't handle the truth, and you can't.

Speaker 3 (08:10):
You can't. And Shirley's also right about we don't like
you all's reaction.

Speaker 4 (08:16):
And the reason we say you can't handle the truth
is because your reaction is not gonna be one that
we want, a one that will lead to a healthy
conversation exchange. It's gonna be filled with rage, name calling,
hot throwing all of that. Now, my clothes in the

(08:37):
driveway on fire, you the key to car, and all
this year, see what the car got to do with
you burning my clothes up. I'm gonna buy something else
and go over there. Anyway, So let's go over this letter.
She heard her man on the phone talking to a

(08:59):
woman to try to calm him down because his brother
broke up with it. I heard him tell the woman
he spoiled, she spoiled and the sex got her hook.
Why would he tell his brother's ex that he was
clearly talking about them having sex and falling for her.

Speaker 3 (09:14):
Then he would have said.

Speaker 4 (09:15):
You know, you know why, you know, you know what
you hooked on girl, you know how I'll put it
on you. But you didn't hear that. I think he
might have could have been trying to save the brother's relationship,
so that one is a little shaky.

Speaker 3 (09:27):
That one was a little shaky.

Speaker 4 (09:29):
He denied everything and deleted her from his phone so
I could not call her.

Speaker 3 (09:34):
Yeah, I can see where you're going.

Speaker 4 (09:38):
Why don't I be able to call her brother's wife
because his brother's girlfriend that they broke up. Because he
don't want you doubling back trying to undo nothing, he said,
It is probably why he deleted the number.

Speaker 3 (09:51):
You see that. I think it was brilliant of him
to delete that number.

Speaker 4 (09:56):
The absolutely brilliant because guess what was gonna do?

Speaker 3 (10:00):
Just what he thought you was gonna try to call her?

Speaker 4 (10:03):
The question you need to know is why he won't
be honest.

Speaker 3 (10:08):
All right.

Speaker 4 (10:09):
Now, the next move you said was that was the
time his car was parked by his exits house. He
said that there's a bar and a convenience store by
his exitit house, so I can assume.

Speaker 3 (10:23):
That he was visiting her, but he wasn't.

Speaker 4 (10:27):
I'm no fooling. He continues to treat me like I'm stupid. Okay,
now that was another brilliant move. He parked his car
by her house, like in between the convenience store and
the bar, but not at her house. So when you
drove by, I saw his car. His lie was I

(10:49):
was in the bar, but there was no parking and
that's why I parked. And I've been going to that
bar when I was dating. Hum another excell a lie.
And what you don't have that he was in the
house high five dogs. Now I'm gonna tell you where
he messed up at. He was doing good. These are

(11:10):
two good lies that he told. These were actually pretty
well thought out. But here's the one. Then she said
when she called his brother that the brother even lied
for him. Okay, brothers stick together, so that's her not okay, anyway,
I'm sounding discombotulated, but I'm trying to find what I'm saying.

Speaker 3 (11:29):
Okay, here we go.

Speaker 4 (11:30):
The final straw was when I walked in on him
with his pants down to his knees.

Speaker 3 (11:37):
This food right here, man, you ain't locking those with you?

Speaker 4 (11:41):
And then where you standing up with your pants around
your knees like you five going to the bath froom,
got his pants down round his knees with his phone
in his hand. I know for a fact he was
taking a picture of his manhood to see into a woman.

Speaker 3 (11:58):
But he said that here we go.

Speaker 4 (12:00):
He had a reaction to the laundry detergent and he
was itching down there. That was an excellent line. Here
where he messed up at This is why I was
shame of him. So he used a camera on his
phone to see if maybe some ants was.

Speaker 3 (12:20):
Down there or by you was doing all right with
the laundry detergent?

Speaker 4 (12:28):
What you talking about? You got some phones to see
if it was some ants down there.

Speaker 3 (12:32):
Some ants get on inside your drawers.

Speaker 4 (12:36):
See now that's why you done took line to Now
you deserve to be busted. Now I'm on her side. Sit,
stupid lie. You had told old dumb ass lie. You
did good with the laundry, Detergent.

Speaker 3 (12:50):
You get your camera to see if it's some ants
down there. Boy, I just rolled my eyes and walked out.

Speaker 4 (12:56):
The Next day, I saw four pictures he taken with
his manhood in his hand. Boy, he must have really
been trying to zoom in on them hands. I know
what I saw, and I was right from the jump.
He keep telling me that I want him to be
the bad guy and come up his stories and come
up with them stories in my head till I believe them.
He said he want. I want him to be a cheat,

(13:18):
and he's not. I'm tired of his game. How do
I get my hoosband to be honest with me? I'm
just gonna hear you right now. Yeah, y'all, marriage is over,
and it's over because of some aunts and in his pants.
You ought to leave him just for that, all right?

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