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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:20):
Right now. Buckle up and hold on tight. We guide
it for you here it is Strawberry Letter.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
Before we do the Strawberry Letter, I just want to
put a disclaimer out for young children that are writing
in the cars with their parents and everything you might
want to turn away. This letter gets a little racye
at times, a little spicy. Okay, thank you subject. Nothing
is big except his mouth. Dear Stephen Shirley, my boyfriend
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has to have a spotlight on him at all times.
It seems like every week he tells me that he
went off on a coworker because they don't respect his authority.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
I always have.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
To remind him that he's not anyone souper at the job.
He's just been there longer than anyone else. He's got
a big ego and a big mouth. He laughs loud,
and he brags all of the time. I'm talking about
bragging like he can knock it out of the park
every night, when he's really not even tapping first base.
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When I met him, he bragged about his size and
kept telling me.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
To grab on to it.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
I should have grabbed it and stretched it a little
bit each time I saw him. I had seen him
without clothes on, and I don't know much about a man,
so I assumed it might get bigger when he got excited. Well,
we finally had sex, and it stayed the same size.
It's like he doesn't know he's small because he kept
bragging the whole time. I got annoyed at him. And
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now when I see him, I think of how big
his feet are and how short his toes are. My
mind goes to the craziest things about a person once
they disappoint me. He has nothing big on him except
his mouth and his ego. I don't want to throw
him away just because he's tiny. I'm willing to work
on this relationship a little longer. He thinks I'm falling
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in love with him, but that's not what's happening, at
least not yet. I want to continue to get to
know him. And find ways to make our sex life
better despite his despite his small size. It is hard
to find a man these days, and I'm pretty sure
this man won't ever cheat on me, or if he
does cheat, it will only it would only happen once
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because he's so tiny. Do you think he can ever change?
Am I crazy to stay with him?
Speaker 2 (02:34):
Okay? Surely before you answer this letter? Uh?
Speaker 1 (02:37):
Huh, Well I.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
Am sitting up on the edge of my seat to
huh sure answer this one?
Speaker 2 (02:44):
Go ahead?
Speaker 1 (02:45):
Shit, Well, thank you, Steve, thank you? Anyway she says,
is she crazy to stay with him? I'm really not
sure what you want Steve and I to do here,
because there's not a lot we can do about your particular.
Since you and sorry you had to find out about
his size that way, maybe you could have accepted it
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better and not have been so disappointed had he not
built himself up and bragged about his size so much.
When you ask if he could ever change, are you
talking about his size? Probably not? Probably not. Can he
change his big mouth? Well, yes, definitely he can do that,
but he's not going to do that because he's been
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bragging for way too long. It's a part of him now. First,
you need to decide why are you really with this man?
You have said nothing good about him in this entire letter.
You even said if he cheats, it will only be
one time because of his size, which means if he cheated,
you know he would come back to you, so you
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would put up with that. So my question is are
you settling because you don't believe you can get anyone else?
You said you want to stay and work with him.
This is not what makes a good relationship. Settling You're
gonna continue to complain about him if you stay. So no,
I'm saying, don't settle, sis, don't settle. You gotta make
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up your mind here either you gonna be with them
or not, and you don't. There's nothing good in this
letter that you've written about him, So why stay? Steve?
Speaker 3 (04:19):
Here's what I take away from this whole letter. Now
I'm gonna do a reenactment on the second half because
there's really nowhere to go. Shirley's absolutely correct. What do
you want us to do? But I'm gonna tell you
one thing though. This man right here is the epitomen
of Norman Vincent Peele's book The Power of Positive Things
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by Norman Vincent Peel.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
This man has thought.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
Himself into everything he needed to feel good about.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
He got a big mouth.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
He ain't to supervise on the job, but he got
everybody thinking. He got a big ego because he's a
small man. He got a big mouth because he's a
small man. He laughs loud and brags all the time
because he's a small man. I'm talking about bragging like
he can knock it out the park every night.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
He ain't even really tapping first bait.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
But in his mind though, this boy has convinced himself
that he all of that.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
Had a bag of chips.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
When you met him, he bragged about his size, and
he kept telling me grab on to it. I should
have grabbed his stretch a little bit at the time
I saw him. I'd have seen him without clothes on,
and I don't know much about a man, so I
assumed it might get bigger when.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
He got excited.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
Now, let me tell you what's wrong so far, and
you assume when you saw him neck and how small
he was, when he got excited, he would get bigger. Normally,
that's what happens. He's not been on a lot of
sports teams with guys before because when you get in
the locker room and you play sports is when you
first discover you might be in a little bit of trouble.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
So here's what's happening.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
When you play sports, you're in the locker room, and
that's when you discover you might not be all you
think you are. So obviously he ain't played no sports
because I remember when Eric Green came out to shower.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
Who's that Eric the Great?
Speaker 3 (06:26):
That's what he was called after he came out to shower,
Eric the Great Green, Lord have mercy. We was in
the ninth grade that boy came out to shower.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
I said, who uncle is there?
Speaker 1 (06:42):
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Speaker 1 (07:31):
All Right, come on, Steve, Let's recap today's strawberry letter.
The subject is nothing is big except his mouth.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
Now, she's been dating this man that's been bragging.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
He's boastful, he loud, he talked crazy, he thinks you
more than he is a supervisor. And then when it
comes down to the bedroom, ain't nothing big on him
but his mouth. The man is small, and he been
using the power positive thinking and has convinced himself and
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has tried to convince her that he is all of
that and everything.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
Grab it, you know. She said in the middle of
the letter.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
She don't know much about a man, but she thought
that if she saw him without his clothes on, when
he got excited, it would get bigger.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
That's how it works. But that ain't how I worked
with him.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
And the reason he don't understand is because he's not
an athletic man. He didn't play sports, because when you
play sports, you be around me in all the time.
You come out that shower. I was in the ninth
grade when Eric the Great Green Great Green came out
to shower one time in the ninth grade. Well I
was in ninth grade, you know, fourteen. You know, Eric
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the Great Green came he was his name was just Eric
Green at first. But when he came out that shower, neckga,
everybody call him Eric the Great. He was a Viking.
That boy came out that shower. We were sitting there,
let's little boys. We were just going, Lord Jesus, who
uncle is this?
Speaker 2 (09:02):
Who? Daddy? Who? Lord?
Speaker 3 (09:05):
What is it? And we all knew then we have
some growing to do. And Eric the Great was already there.
So obviously this man has not been around athletics anymore.
Now you want to know what can you do? And
there's nothing. Men surely can help you. There are products
that can help him. That was a product our years
back called Extend, and I don't know about seeing that anymore.
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I don't see even commercials on that no more. But
they have stuff that you can do. He got to
do something, but it ain't really but he The problem
is you. He's kind of like dealing with the early alcoholic.
He don't know that alcoholic.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
He don't know.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
He's small, and you got to stop helping with all that. Hollywodt.
He don't know because he thinks he killed. Yeah. See,
he ain't listening. Nobody put hisself. You got to tune
yourself out, feelings and listen to these women all listening.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
Here in the meantime, she's looking at her phone.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
Yeah, looking at her nails.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
She's doing her nails. You just delusion all about who
you are. So to show you how it works, ladies,
you can ask me anything. You're in a relationship with me,
and you're trying to bring and breach the subject and
ask me in a cool way. And I'm gonna show
you how he handling the Concepty, what's going on?
Speaker 1 (10:37):
Yeah? You're talking so loud? Why are you so loud?
Speaker 3 (10:41):
I can't help it, you know, big man gotta do
big things, you know what I mean? You know you
know what I'm saying. Girl, I can't help it. I
can't tone it down because it ain't It won't town down,
you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
Yeah, I got that.
Speaker 4 (10:55):
You can't talk, Yeah, I got that. When you're laughing,
why are you just over the top out of tin
with the laughter falling all loud?
Speaker 3 (11:07):
Come on me, if I don't laugh loud, all of
them are here, you doing this cry because I got
all this here on you like this here, and I
hu all that cry. You know, I do the last
help come up all this whipping and moaning, you know
you moaning this stuff. I rather hear laughter. You know,
supposed to be a great time for both of us.
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So I laugh hard so we can go and get
in the move. Because if I stopped this laughter, I
got to deal with these moans of ecstasy and sometimes
pain because it's just so much.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
You know what, I know that I hate that you.
You know, you brag a lot, You're loud and everything,
but do you have any idea? You know, like, how
can I put this gingerly? You're small, small for a
grown man. Yes, and I haven't read with a lot
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of guys.
Speaker 3 (12:05):
Well your read letter. What these little toes got to
do with it? You know what I'm saying. Yeah, I
got small toes for a man. But that's because I
don't toe off all these sheets from all these gripping
I've been doing up in my life. You know what
I mean, these toes is stunted because I don't have
to stand up on them because I be standing up
in it. So now I done gotten crushed my toes down. Girl,
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I'm just you know how you know how hard it
is to be this size and have try to explain
this to people.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
You know what I mean?
Speaker 3 (12:33):
So you know, baby, I'm just you know, small, I
got these small toes. But now I don't know what
you're talking about because everything else, got everything else girl?
Speaker 2 (12:46):
Short? Yeah, so yeah, short toes.
Speaker 4 (12:53):
I'm trying.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
I'm really trying to briefly say so much. That's not it.
Speaker 4 (12:58):
You're not taking my breath away.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
You can't talk. That's what I do. I get the filess.
Speaker 4 (13:05):
That's that's just it. You don't let nobody talk you over.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
No, no, no, because I don't.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
Want you because I know you having trouble describing what's
happening to you to try to help it out, you
know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
But you're just loud.
Speaker 4 (13:20):
I'm trying to communicate with you and tell you how
we can make communicate.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
Baby.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
Go ahead, Okay, okay, I'm listening, but I don't hear
nothing because.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
In my mind I hear molding.
Speaker 3 (13:30):
My mind, I hear satisfaction, my god, I hear gratitude.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
I hear in my mind, I hear. Oh Lord, I
can't take no more.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
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