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February 12, 2026 13 mins

The Strawberry Letter heard on The Steve Harvey Morning Show Thursday, February 12th, 2026. Subject: "I'm In Love With Her Fiancé"

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It is time now for today's Strawberry Letter.

Speaker 2 (00:02):
And if you need advice on relationships, work, sex, dating, parenting,
and more, please submit your Strawberry Letter to Steve HAARVIFM
dot com and click submit Strawberry Letter. We could be
reading your letter live on the air, just like we're
going to read this one right here, right now, and
you never know, it could be yours.

Speaker 3 (00:21):
It could be yours. Buckle up and hold on tight.
We got it before you. Here it is Strawberry Letter.

Speaker 2 (00:26):
All right, neph you, thank you. Subject. I'm in love
with her fiance. All right, Dear Stephen Shirley, I am
in love with my best friends fiance. It's my fault
that they're even together. They are both my besties and
we're all twenty eight years old. My male best friend
and I have known each other since we were six.

(00:46):
He lived with my mom and I during high school
because his mom is an addict. We had sex at
least ten times when we were teenagers. He was my first.
He told me that he loves me and he always will.
After high school, he went to the army and he
called me almost every day and he'd always say he
loved me.

Speaker 1 (01:05):
Before he hung up.

Speaker 2 (01:07):
He and I dated other people, and he always told
me that those other girls didn't measure up to me.

Speaker 1 (01:13):
He even said I was wifey.

Speaker 2 (01:15):
Material time went on and I met my female best
friend in college.

Speaker 1 (01:19):
We were roommates.

Speaker 2 (01:20):
She knew of my male best friend, but I never
told her that I had a sexual relationship with him.
After graduation, she went back to her hometown of Virginia
two years ago. Two years ago, my male best friend
was stationed in Virginia, so I arranged for him to
meet my female bestie that lives there. They hit it

(01:41):
off right away, but I never expected them to fall
in love. They moved in together and got engaged all
in two short years. I found out about their engagement
over the phone. Like I'm an outsider, I was already
jealous of their relationship, but that news devastated me. He
knew that I'd be hurt when I found out they're engaged,

(02:02):
so maybe that's why he couldn't tell me before. He
proposed if I tell them how I feel, I could
lose both of them. I've thought about telling her that
I had sex with him in the past. She might
even she might leave him alone after that. I cannot
let my best friends get married.

Speaker 1 (02:19):
What do I do? There is nothing you can do.
It's over. And why haven't you said anything before?

Speaker 2 (02:27):
Now they are engaged to be married, so please stop
trying to sabotage their relationship. I don't mean to be harsh,
but this man does not want you. Okay, he's known
you since you were six. He doesn't want you. You
guys have had plenty of time to express how you
feel about each other. The best thing you can do
now is to wish them well and move on. And

(02:49):
how is she your bestie? But she didn't know about
what you had with your male bestie before. Now listen,
he knows what he did with you and what he's
doing with her. You said he knew you would be hurt,
and he did it anyway.

Speaker 3 (03:04):
All right?

Speaker 2 (03:05):
That should let you know right there how much he
does not care for you. He doesn't let this go.

Speaker 4 (03:12):
Steve, Well, I see it a little bit differently. This
is a hard letter, because young lady, what you're asking
Shirley and I to do is to advise you as
to what you said at the end, is that I

(03:32):
cannot let my best friends get married. What do I do?
Why can't you let him get married. Why because it's
not you. I'm gonna tell you something about men. If
it was you, he would ask you to marry him.
I listen to me, young lady. I'm going to tell
you something that's the real truth about men. And I

(03:53):
want every woman out there to listen to me. There
is not a man alive who is dating or seeing
a woman who is saying to who has ever said, oh,
I could have done better than this. Yeah, I could
have got one finer than this, because you know why
he would have done it. The reason he didn't ask
you to marry him is because he don't want to

(04:16):
marry you. That's the reason. And he asked your best friend,
who you introduced him to see. I don't understand. I
don't even understand why you're not seeing this because it's
right in front of your face.

Speaker 3 (04:33):
I don't care.

Speaker 4 (04:34):
Y'all have known each other, y'all best friends all your
three of y'all is twenty eight years old. He used
to live with you because if mama was junkie, and
then he stayed at your house. But while y'all was
at your house, y'all had sex ten times when y'all
was teenagers. He was your first you know, which is
always kind of I guess special.

Speaker 3 (04:56):
He told me that he loves me and he always will.

Speaker 4 (04:59):
Probably true, he loves you and always will. Hear what
he didn't say. He didn't say he was in.

Speaker 3 (05:09):
Love with you.

Speaker 4 (05:10):
You can love a person and not be in love
with them. Okay, I'm just gonna a right Okay.

Speaker 3 (05:24):
Anyway, after high school he went to the army.

Speaker 4 (05:27):
He called you almost every day and always before he
hung up, he said he loved you, but y'all was
dating other people, you and him, so.

Speaker 3 (05:39):
All is love.

Speaker 4 (05:42):
It wasn't that serious, and it show wasn't in love,
because when you're in love with somebody, you're not gonna
want them to date somebody else. But y'all always dating
each other because y'all just loved each other. And he
told me that the other girls he dated didn't measure
up to me. Okay, here a player time went on.
I met my best friend in college, this girl, we roommates.

(06:04):
She knew you had the male best friend, but I
never told her I had a sexual relationship. We know
how many times I got to tell y'all that a
man don't really want to be your friend. I don't
know how many times I got to say this man,
but y'all please stop writing me and then clarifying what
I said.

Speaker 3 (06:20):
A man don't want to be your friend? What anyway?

Speaker 4 (06:28):
So I'm gonna tell you when we come back what
happened two years ago to male best friend got stationed
in Virginia and you arranged for them to meet your
female bestie and it all fell apart.

Speaker 2 (06:39):
We'll be back, all right. We will have your response
coming up Part two. Steve at twenty three minutes after
the subject of today's strawberry letter, I'm in love with
her fiance.

Speaker 1 (06:50):
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let's recap today's strawberry letter. The subject is I'm in
love with her fiance.

Speaker 4 (07:36):
I'm in love with her fiance because you all lived
in the same house when y'all was teenagers, because his
mama was on drugs and your mama took you in.
But while y'all was in there being teenagers, you had
six ten times.

Speaker 3 (07:48):
He was your first. He told you he loved you.

Speaker 4 (07:52):
He later on went to join the army, and he'd
call you almost every day, and before y'all hung up,
he would tell you he loved you. Y'all dated other people. Keyword,
he told you he loved you. He did not tell
you he was in love with you. That is a difference, ladies.
There's two different kinds of love. I love Kill, I'm

(08:14):
not in love with kill. Or see junr. Wife is
in love with him. He gets sick, she go down
there to the hospital. I ain't been down there yet.
But you love him because I love him, but I
ain't in love, so I ain't got to sit around
you when you sick. See that's the difference. And y'all
need to understand this. I'm sorry, Junior. I had to

(08:36):
use you as an example. But I'm trying to get
through the people out here sitting up in here, because
yet somebody told you he loved you. He ain't tell
you he was in love with you. I ain't mean
to hurt you, Junior, but you all right?

Speaker 3 (08:48):
Be all right? Ain't you nothing.

Speaker 2 (08:51):
With you? You?

Speaker 3 (08:52):
I don't want Junior? Stay is now now if you
want to hear you in what do you say? What
he saying?

Speaker 1 (08:57):
I'm in love with you?

Speaker 3 (08:58):
Love, I'm in love with you? For you talking.

Speaker 1 (09:01):
About hey, stay focused? Stay fun't be.

Speaker 3 (09:08):
In love with me? Don what's wrong with you?

Speaker 1 (09:11):
They focused on?

Speaker 2 (09:13):
Hell?

Speaker 3 (09:13):
No, you get on right of here with all that.

Speaker 4 (09:15):
Man, Now you love me? He ain't no in love
with me? Don knock your ants up, your.

Speaker 1 (09:24):
Games, don't steve back to the letter.

Speaker 3 (09:29):
Be in love with me? Man, you have it.

Speaker 4 (09:31):
And I'm telling you right now you don't want this.
You don't want this. I'm all smoke when you come
to that right there. I'm in what less than a
year God would and I'll be seventy years old. I
still throw these hands. They slow, but they still got
a little pop to him.

Speaker 3 (09:52):
If I'm gonna get folk goodes in. I'ma this letter.

Speaker 4 (10:00):
Should have never used your little sick in the example
of the first place. If I knew he was gonna
do that, I'd have said it to Tommy. We had
sex at least ten times, and when we were teenagers,
and you know he was your first. Now I'm gonna
say this again and shut your mouth. He told me
that he loves me and he always will, but he

(10:23):
didn't tell you he was in love with you. He
called you almost every day, and before y'all hung up,
you say you loved each other.

Speaker 3 (10:29):
Then you said he and I dated other.

Speaker 4 (10:31):
People, and he always told me that the other girls
didn't measure up to me. When people are in love,
they don't see other people and they are not okay
with the other people seeing other people.

Speaker 3 (10:43):
So now y'all just got a friendship.

Speaker 4 (10:45):
That's love. He said I was wifey material. He didn't
say you was his wifey material. Time went on. I
met my other best friend in college. Y'all was college
roommates to girls. She knew you had a male best friend.
He got stationed in Virginia, and so y'all went over
there and you introduced me. So now you arranged for

(11:08):
them to meet your female bestie that lives there in Virginia.
They hit it off right away, but I never expected
them to fall in love. Oh you thought they were
just gonna love each other like you and him. No, no, no,
they fell in love. They moved in together. They got engaged,

(11:29):
all in two short years. Now, all these years you'd
have known him, did y'all ever move in together, all
these years you known him, that he ever asked you
to marry him? No, that's because he loved you. He
was not in love with you. I found out about
their engagement over the fun Like I'm in outsider. Why

(11:52):
was you supposed to find out? You thought they gonna
buy you a ticket? Fly year in fun? He spent
all his money on that ring, He soldier his talibraion
and all that bids.

Speaker 3 (12:03):
He ain't got no money fly you in.

Speaker 2 (12:06):
Yeah, she's feeling some kind of way anyway.

Speaker 4 (12:09):
I was already jealous of their relationship, but that news
devastated me. He knew I'd be hurt when I found
out they was engaged. So maybe that's why he couldn't
tell me before he proposed. A man listen to me,
A man don't need your permission to ask another woman
to marry him. Why he ain't tell me before he
proposed because it wasn't your business. He didn't need He

(12:33):
didn't seek your approval because your approval is not required.
If I tell them how I feel, I could lose
both of them.

Speaker 3 (12:43):
Lady, they gone. They gone.

Speaker 4 (12:46):
If I tell them how I feel, I could lose
both of them. I thought about telling her that I
had sex with him in the past. She might leave
him alone after that, and he gonna be through with
cho too.

Speaker 3 (12:59):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (12:59):
I just want you to be clear now when you
do that, he gonna be through with you anyway. I
cannot let my best friends get married. What do I do? No,
they gonna get married. You're talking about losing both of them.
They gone.

Speaker 3 (13:12):
Now. The best thing you could do is get in
the wind.

Speaker 1 (13:15):
All right.

Speaker 4 (13:15):
Now, here's what I propose that it'll make you feel special.
Ask call can you be the bridesmaid? And ask him
can you be the best man? Have a happy life
because they gone?

Speaker 3 (13:26):
You got something talk about after this? Right here? You
just hang on your linen.

Speaker 2 (13:30):
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the Strawberry Letter podcast on the Free.

Speaker 3 (13:36):
You might not be here tomorrow, y'all, so just get ready.
You might have to go in for a little while.

Speaker 1 (13:40):
Pree never sounded so good. You can download it today.

Speaker 2 (13:43):
I'm coming up at forty six minutes after the hour,
we got sports talk with Junior and Steve's Winter Olympic
Sports report as well. Right after this, you're listening to
the Steve Harvey Morning Show
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