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The Strawberry Letter heard on The Steve Harvey Morning Show, Thursday, August 14th, 2025. Subject: "I'm In The Middle Of Some Mess"

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:20):
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We guide it for you. Here it is Strawberry Let up, all.

Speaker 1 (00:26):
Right, nephew, Thank you. Subject. I'm in the middle of
some mess. Dear Stephen Shirley, I've always hated technology, and
here's why. The darn camera at the front of our
at the front door of our house caused a huge misunderstanding.
My husband's daughter had her first child and the baby
came early, so my husband rushed out to Colorado to
help her assemble the baby's crib and do other little

(00:49):
things to get the house ready for the baby. I
stayed behind because our fifteen year old was getting ready
to go back to school, and the process of running
around with my son for back to school shopping, I
fell at the mall and I sprained my ankle my
husband told his friend and his friend's wife to check
on me. My friend met me at home on the

(01:10):
day it happened. So his friend met me at home
on the day it happened so he could help me
get into the house. He also brought my son and
I a couple of pizzas. My husband saw him on
the cameras and called to thank him. At least that's
what he told me he did. But when my husband
called me, he was going off on me. He said
I never should have let his friend come into the

(01:31):
house if he didn't have his wife with him. Our
son was in the house and I was wearing a
brace on my leg, so I'm not sure why my
husband was so upset. The next day, after his friend
dropped by to pick up to pick my son up
to take him to meet his girlfriend at the movies,
I got a call from my husband and again he
yelled at me, but he didn't say a word to

(01:52):
his friend. I don't understand why he doesn't trust his friend,
but he asked him to check on me after my injury.
What does it matter if the man's wife didn't come
with him. I don't want his friend. The front door
camera has put me in the middle of some mess.
It was completely innocent. Why is my husband taking it
out on me, all out on me, Well, simply because

(02:16):
men don't like other men in the house alone with
their wives when they are not there. It's just that simple.
Although your case is quite different because you were incapacitated
at the time, it didn't matter to your husband. Even
though he called the friend, it still didn't matter. And
let me say this is not that your husband doesn't
trust you. He probably doesn't trust his friend or any

(02:38):
other man up around his wife when he's away. That's
just how it is. Because if anything happens, he's all
the way in Colorado. He can't do anything about it.
We all know accidents can happen, of course in life.
And he shouldn't have yelled at you. But he was
just being a man. Yes, it was overprotective and jealous
behavior on his part. So thank god he knows now

(02:59):
that you and his friend didn't do anything with each other.
But the yelling at you, I don't like that. He
was wrong for that. He could have let you know
that he didn't want another man in the house while
he was away, and he could have asked you to
please make sure that his wife came with him. But again,
you were incapacitated at the time. He was mad about it,
your husband and thought you should have known better, and

(03:20):
what he said came out unfiltered.

Speaker 3 (03:22):
Steve, this letter is really kind of crazy because this
is all because of the husband. Everything in this letter
is because of the request that the husband made. Now,
Shelley's absolutely corrected me. And don't like other men in
a house when they're not there. You know, I ain't

(03:46):
got no friends can come visit my house and I
hang home, sit around. I don't go on in here
and talk to Margie. No pader what what what?

Speaker 4 (03:52):
What you're talking about? But that's but.

Speaker 3 (03:57):
He invited this. You got hurt, you sprained your ankle,
You gotta knee breast. Y'all's daughter had her first child
and the baby came early, so my husband rushed out
to Colorado to help her assemble the baby's crib and
do other things to get the house.

Speaker 4 (04:14):
Ready for the baby. Where did dad ad? Where the baby?

Speaker 3 (04:18):
Where the baby? Daddads in this letter? So I guess
she's single. I guess her and the guy fell out.
I don't know that ain't really what the letter's about,
But I was curious where the baby dad had while
you got to fly all the way to Colorado to
put together a baby baddy.

Speaker 4 (04:37):
I don't understand that anyway.

Speaker 3 (04:40):
So he knew he had to leave, and you stayed
behind because y'all's fifteen year old was getting ready to
go back school. Now, you don't hurt yourself. Then your
husband told his friend and his friend's wife to check
on me. His friend met me at a home on

(05:00):
the day it happened so he can help me get
into the house. He also bought my son and I
a couple of pizzas. My husband saw him on the
cameras and called to thank him. At least that's what
he told me. But when he called you, he was
going off on me. He said, you should have never
let his friend come in the house if he didn't

(05:21):
have his wife with him. Well, I understand what he's saying,
but didn't he Ain't you the one that asked your
friend to do this? You the one, and the man's
wife was okay with him going over there without her

(05:44):
because he was taking a couple of pizzas over there
for her and the sun and he was helping you
get in the house.

Speaker 4 (05:51):
Now, why he mad at you for this for not knowing.

Speaker 3 (05:54):
The man law rule, which don't really apply here, because
because your man asked the man to do this.

Speaker 4 (06:05):
See that's different. If I look on the camera all
of a sudden, I see this dude just being captain helpful.

Speaker 3 (06:13):
Well, hey, hold up, partner, sh over here, she can
get in the house. She heard a leg, She didn't
lose a leg. It's still on there. So you know,
I would I could have understood where he's coming from.
But this is a bit much of an overreaction, and
I'll tell you what it's from when we come back.

(06:33):
But it's a bit of an overreaction, and it's all
because of a phone call he made.

Speaker 1 (06:40):
All right, all right, Steve will have part two of
your response coming up at twenty three minutes after the
hour Today's Strawberry Letters subject. I'm in the middle of semess.
We'll get back into it right after this. You're listening
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Speaker 1 (07:31):
All Right, Steve Let's recap today's Strawberry letter. The subject
is I'm in the middle of some mess.

Speaker 3 (07:37):
Yeah, you're in the middle of some mess that was
created by your husband. You all have a daughter that
lives in Colorado who had a baby that came early,
so your husband rushed out there to help her put
together the crib and all this stuff and get to
the house ready for when the baby comes home. Okay,
So he left you at the home with y'all fifteen

(07:59):
year old had to go back to school. You went
out shopping for some school clothes, and you fail and
hurt yourself at the mall.

Speaker 4 (08:07):
Your husband called his friend who stays.

Speaker 3 (08:11):
Like in the neighborhood or somewhere like that, I don't know,
and asked him to go and check on y'all and
look out for you because you would hurt your leg. So,
in coming from the hospital, the friend anticipates you may
need help getting out the car, So who's over there
to meet you when you get out the car to

(08:31):
help you up the steps of However, your house is
set up. Any bought a pizza, some pizza for you
and your son to eat. Your husband sees this on
the doorbell camera, calls the man and thanks him. But
then he calls you and goes off because you let
a man in the house where he wasn't there. Your
husband called this man and ask him and his wife

(08:56):
to check on you.

Speaker 4 (08:59):
Now at you because you let the man in the house.

Speaker 3 (09:03):
You don't understand the rule Men don't like men in
the house when they're not there. But he asked a
god to help out, so at least he was aware. Now,
if he was unaware of the man coming over to
the house, that's another thing.

Speaker 4 (09:22):
But he was aware.

Speaker 3 (09:25):
So now, but you in that tripping because you're trying
to figure out your son was in.

Speaker 5 (09:32):
The house with y'all.

Speaker 3 (09:33):
You wearing a brace on your legs, so I'm not
sure why your husband would sack. The next day, his
friend dropped by to pick up my son, y'all, sir,
to take him to meet his girlfriend at the movie.

Speaker 4 (09:47):
I got a call from my husband again.

Speaker 3 (09:49):
He yelled at me, but didn't say a word to
his friend.

Speaker 4 (09:53):
I don't understand why he doesn't.

Speaker 3 (09:55):
Trust his friend, but he asked him to check on
me after my injury. What does it matter if the
man's wife didn't come with him. I don't want his friend.
The front door camera has put me in the middle
of semess and it's completely innocent.

Speaker 4 (10:07):
Why is my husband taking it all out of it?

Speaker 3 (10:10):
Which leads me to my favorite quote that I've heard
from a minister this year, Bishop Brana from Atlanta.

Speaker 4 (10:17):
Be careful of people who are the.

Speaker 3 (10:21):
Victims of circumstances they created. Be careful of people who
are victims of circumstances that they created. Your husband created
this whole thing. Now he upset because you let a
man in the house. He told the man to go
over there. And if you told the man to go

(10:43):
over there, you should have said, hey, man, go in there,
but stay on the porch. But you ain't say that.
The wife, No, you told the man to come over here. Now,
had you not said that, she may have said, I
don't know. We're good, so we okay, we don't need
a Now, No, you don't have to help me in

(11:05):
the house. No, I'm okay, I'm okay, But you set
him over there. The only thing I can tell you
is there's a form of insecurity going over here. Now
there's a man cold that we don't like me and
in our house. But you invited the guy over there,
You told him to go over there.

Speaker 4 (11:25):
And look again on.

Speaker 3 (11:27):
The man's wife ain't having him, no problem with him
going over there, but you do.

Speaker 4 (11:35):
I think it's backwards. I think this is an easy
one for you to say. Hey, look, I'm so confused.
You told him to come over.

Speaker 3 (11:48):
You didn't tell you told me you told him to
come over.

Speaker 4 (11:52):
You didn't tell me not to let him in the house,
and you didn't.

Speaker 3 (11:55):
Tell me that he had to have his wife with him.
So now how you mad at me? And you're not
really in the middle of no mess?

Speaker 2 (12:04):
Lady.

Speaker 3 (12:04):
If you do, like a woman does, turn it.

Speaker 4 (12:10):
Turn it on it. Had it happened to me so
many times.

Speaker 5 (12:19):
Turn it.

Speaker 3 (12:20):
Do what women do, turn it and stop right using logic,
use emotion. See the women you have a trump card.

(12:40):
Don't use logic. You're talking logic, use emotion.

Speaker 5 (12:46):
I haven't heard my leg I'm falling this malling there.
You sending this man over here, don't help me, and
then he'll help me. And now you know I.

Speaker 3 (12:56):
Was being worse now and look at you. You ain't
even so now you care about their baby morning? You
care about me? You're to stain over here and help
me with my leg? And where's the baby daddy? At?

Speaker 4 (13:09):
Anyway?

Speaker 5 (13:09):
You should have been putting that grib together. What's your power?

Speaker 3 (13:11):
There's been all that money you got that greeam that
calls us twelve hundred dollars?

Speaker 1 (13:17):
All right, how's your comments on today's strubber?

Speaker 5 (13:20):
I told you that boy wasn't no good when they
was taking each other. But you can come my.

Speaker 1 (13:26):
Facebook and check out the Strawberry Letter podcast.

Speaker 5 (13:29):
Have you raised this.

Speaker 3 (13:30):
Fifteen year old like a man? He would have helped
me get in the house anyway?

Speaker 1 (13:34):
iHeart radio app now lot on a pizza.

Speaker 5 (13:37):
You raised his little bunk fifteen year old boy?

Speaker 1 (13:40):
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Speaker 4 (13:52):
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