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The Strawberry Letter, heard on The Steve Harvey Morning Show, Tuesday, September 30th, 2025. Subject: "Sexy, 70 & Still Stutters"

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It is time now for today's Strawberry Letter. And if
you need advice on relationship, sex, work, parenting, and more,
please submit your Strawberry letter to Steve HARVEYFM dot com
and click submit Strawberry Letter.

Speaker 2 (00:11):
That's all you gotta do.

Speaker 1 (00:12):
And you never know your letter could be read live
on the air, just like this one right here, right now.

Speaker 2 (00:20):
Come on, nephew, buckle up, hold on tape.

Speaker 3 (00:23):
We got a fight a strawberry little thank.

Speaker 1 (00:25):
You junior subject sexy and seventy, but he stutters. Dear
Stephen Shirley, I'm a sixty two year old female in
a relationship with a seventy year old man that is
sexy as heck. He loves his tailor's suits, and he's
got that salt and pepper beard that drives me crazy.
For years, he has pursued me, but he was in

(00:46):
a relationship, so I didn't take him seriously. Most of
our exchanges were over Texas and for three years until
he coersed me into giving him my address and he
started sending me flowers, an expensive gift. I was perplexed
at first because he didn't want anything in exchange. I
asked him why he never made a move, and he

(01:07):
told me that he's so nervous around me he can't
even speak, let alone come in for a kiss. He
texted me a few months ago and said he and
his girlfriend broke up, so I invited him over for
a cocktail. He came and we talked and had a
good time. He said the alcohol relaxed him so he
wasn't as nervous. A few weeks after that, he was

(01:29):
over to the house and we finally kissed and then
ended up in my bed. He was very nervous and sweaty,
so I took it easy on him. When he tried
to talk sexy to me, it came out as a stutter.
He started sweating bullets, so I kept on doing anything
I could to let him know it was okay, and

(01:50):
I would take it easy on him. I took off
my clothes and he couldn't get one word out without stuttering.
It made for a long night and he would not
stop trying to talk while we were being intimate. I
decided to tune him out so I could stay focused
because it was bad.

Speaker 2 (02:06):
The sex wasn't bad, his sexy talk was bad.

Speaker 1 (02:09):
He put it down and he's a great lover, but
I need him to hush when we're doing it. This
happened a few more times during intimacy. He talks fine
any other time. So how do I help him relax
before sex? Am I way too much for him? I
don't think that you're necessarily way too much for him.

Speaker 2 (02:28):
I just think he just is so into you. He
gets really nervous.

Speaker 1 (02:33):
But you know, I also say that you have a
man now that treats you well, dresses well, gives you
expensive gifts. He's sexy, you say, and he's a great lover.
These are all your words. But he stutters, and that's
the only thing wrong with him. And he stutters, but
he only does it during intimacy.

Speaker 2 (02:52):
I don't think.

Speaker 1 (02:53):
I don't see that as such a huge problem. I mean,
did you hear the part where you wrote that he
gives you expensive gifts and he's sexy and a great
lover and all that. I just think this man is
so very nervous around you. He's been after you for
what three years? You say? He's been trying to pursue you,
and now he's finally got you. He can't believe that

(03:15):
he's actually with you. I mean, this means a whole
lot to him, and he just gets too excited.

Speaker 2 (03:24):
That's what I think it is.

Speaker 1 (03:25):
I mean, that's a high compliment to you and the
woman you are in his life. He really really likes you.
So I just say to you, give him time, have
some real conversations with him, talk about you know, how
you really feel.

Speaker 2 (03:38):
You both are grown. You're sixty two, he's seventy.

Speaker 1 (03:41):
You know, Throw a couple of cocktails in there like
you did before, Relax him a bit and let him
get his nerves under control. I just say, give him
a chance, be patient with him. He sounds like a
really nice older gentleman, and you guys could be good together.

Speaker 4 (03:55):
Steve, this is a perfect letter for me cause I
am a former stutterer, right, and I had a severe stutter,
And just like this man, I didn't study all the time.
I only studied outside my house and when I wasn't

(04:16):
around my friends. Now, if I was around my friends,
people that I knew and I was comfortable around, no stutter.
I went to church stutter, I went to school stutter,
And any time I went to an event that I
was out of my comfort zone, I studied. So this
is a perfect letter for me. I know, exactly what's happening.

(04:39):
I'm fin to help you out. You're a fifty eight
year old, sixty two year old female and your relationship
be seth me, you old man, that it's sexist. Heck
got his suits on everything. You know, salt and pepper bead.
That drives you crazy. And you say, for years he

(05:00):
pursued you, but he was in a relationships, so I
didn't take him seriously. And you said most of our
exchanges were over text for three years until he coerced
me into giving him my address and he started sending
flowers and expensive gifts. I was perplexed at first because
he didn't want anything in exchange. Yes he did. What ladies,

(05:26):
Men don't do things for nothing. Everything we do is
for a reason. What part of that don't you get?
And you're too old to think a man to send
you flowers and gifts and doing wonderful things to you
in Texas and he don't want anything in.

Speaker 5 (05:42):
Exchange, Yes he does. He just a grown man. He
planting seeds.

Speaker 4 (05:50):
He putting seeds in the ground and covering them with dirt.
He is planning on one day reaping a harvest from
the seeds.

Speaker 5 (05:59):
He's playing all right, this is what grown men do,
unlike young boys.

Speaker 4 (06:06):
As soon as they throw a seed in the ground,
they want to pull the dirt back off of it
and eat the seed and wonder why they ain't nothing
to it. Well, because you didn't let it turn into nothing.
And then you gave him the seed without allowing it
to grow into nothing. Now you mad because he didne
ate the seed. Now he gone, and the seed gone,

(06:29):
and it's a hole in.

Speaker 5 (06:30):
The hold on, hold on, now, he'd have left a
hole in the dirt. Oh I'm preaching today.

Speaker 2 (06:34):
Oh yes, you are, amen, Amen.

Speaker 5 (06:35):
Better hear me.

Speaker 1 (06:36):
Now, all right, we'll have part two of Steve Sermon
coming up at twenty three minutes after the hour. The
subject for today's strawberry letter is sexty and seventy, but
he stutters. We'll get back into it right after this.
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Speaker 1 (07:24):
All right, come on, Steve former stutterer, Let's recap today's
strawberry letters.

Speaker 2 (07:29):
Sexy and seventy bus.

Speaker 4 (07:31):
Sixty sixteen two year old woman in relationship with a
sexty seventy year old man salt and pepper beer drive
absolutely crazy. This man been running after her for three years,
but hitting a relationship, so she never took the man seriously.
Finally he coerced her into giving him his address, and
then all of a sudden, he starts sending flowers and
gifts to the house. And she said she was perplexed
at first because he didn't want anything in exchange. And

(07:54):
I told you before, yes he did. He wanted something
and change. But he is he he old school player.
He went planting seeds, all them gifts and all them
stuff he'd been sending to the house, and all them
Texas was him putting seeds in the ground, expecting one
day for the seeds to grow and he would benefit
from the reaping the harvest, unlike young dudes who put

(08:17):
a seed in the ground and then go and eat
the seed and expect something to show up.

Speaker 5 (08:24):
And you, being the woman who got the seed.

Speaker 4 (08:27):
Planted, lets him come back and eat the seed before
anything then grew out of it. Now you mad at
him because he gone, Your seed gone and it's a.

Speaker 5 (08:36):
Hole in the ground. Oh preach, Okay, so now you mad.

Speaker 4 (08:44):
But you didn't let the seed push up through the
dirt and turn into crop, and you let him have
the seed. Now you got nothing, well grown man to
figure out how to do it. So then finally I
asked him why he never made a move, and he
told me he was so nervous around you.

Speaker 5 (08:59):
He can't even let long come in for a kiss.

Speaker 4 (09:02):
He text me a few months ago, said him and
his girlfriend broke up. You invited him over for a cocktail.
He came, y'all talk had a great time, and then
he told you that the alcohol relaxed him. So a
few weeks after that he was over to the house
and we finally kiss and ended up in my bed.

Speaker 5 (09:19):
He was very nervous and sweaty, so I took it
easy on him.

Speaker 4 (09:23):
Now here's a woman that starts to give herself credit.
She just won't credit. I took it easy on it.
I put it on him. I could have took him out,
but I didn't. I let him live. I let him
survive this one. You don't know who you mess with.
How could have heard? I could have had a stroke
over my house, or a heart attack or something. You know,
that's what That's what I do. I put it on

(09:43):
you where you can't you can't breathe good. I take
your sisters away from you. This is all her think
you for, she was writing his left I take your
sisters away from you. I had you sitting up here
there think and yet that COVID you won't have taste
of Smith.

Speaker 5 (09:58):
This is what I have, girl. You don't know who
you messing with. I'm a COVID case. I had this
on the ventilator.

Speaker 4 (10:04):
This is what she thinking in her mind while she
texted us left.

Speaker 5 (10:10):
So she ended up in the bed. He was very
nervous and sweaty. I took it easy.

Speaker 4 (10:13):
Other when he tried to talk sexy to me, it
came out as a study.

Speaker 5 (10:17):
Now here is where my expertise is fit.

Speaker 4 (10:20):
When he tried to talk sexy came out as a study,
he started sweating bullets. So I kept on doing anything
I could to let him know it was okay, and
I would take it easy on him, so like, you
ain't even really put it on him yet, that's what
you keep trying to tell us about this letter. So
I took off my clothes and he could not get
one word out with our study.

Speaker 5 (10:42):
Whoa whoa, whoa whoa woo woo woo woo woo woo wee.

Speaker 4 (10:53):
Girl looking look at him, cause he's seventy now, so
he and ain't ain't bigger words. These is the old
lord phrases. He used, a seventy year old fraser. What
you to talk about? You make me stitch stoke boy,

(11:20):
I'm about it's.

Speaker 5 (11:22):
About to pop pop pop pop the pop out here.

Speaker 4 (11:29):
So anyway, it made for a long night and he
would not stop trying to talk while we were be
an intimate. I decided to tune him out so I
can stay focused while we was in bed. The sex
wasn't bad, His sexy talk was bad.

Speaker 2 (11:41):
He put it down.

Speaker 4 (11:42):
He was a great lover, but I need him to
hush when we're doing it. This happened a few more
times doing intermates. He talks fine any other time, So
how do I help him to relax before sex? Am
I weighed too much for him? No, you ain't weighed
too much for him. You said he put it down.
And the reason you keep coming back is cause he
put it down. So let's take yourself off the credit

(12:06):
screen trying to roll the credits with your name on it. No,
you ain't too much. He got you and he keeps
coming back. The problem is stuttering is caused by anxiety.
Stuttering is not a physical condition, it's all mental. Stuttering
is calls from anxiety. People who grow up and hold

(12:29):
on the studying long times never master the anxiety portion
of it, so they keep the studter going.

Speaker 5 (12:36):
And once you stutter, and you know you study, and
you know it causes a reaction in people.

Speaker 4 (12:42):
Every time you get ready to talk, you stutter because
of the anxiety you have for the reaction you know
you're gonna get when people hear you talk.

Speaker 5 (12:51):
And so now the stutter is produced even before you talk.

Speaker 4 (12:55):
Now, when y'all ain't talking about nothing, that causes anxiety
he finds causes him anxiety because he got to perform.
All you have to do is simply say, hey, I
don't like talking while we're having sex. Now you're putting
it down like you're supposed to. I would prefer to
have sex quietly so I can just enjoy myself. Guess

(13:17):
what now he thinking he needs to talk sexy, and
he fully anxiety and he can't.

Speaker 5 (13:23):
By the time he tell you what he finna do,
he'd probably already done it.

Speaker 1 (13:27):
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