She’s Getting More From Him Than Money - 12.15.25

The Strawberry Letter heard on The Steve Harvey Morning Show Monday, December 15th, 2025. Subject: "She’s Getting More From Him Than Money"

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:13):
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Speaker 1 (00:14):
Your letter live on the air, just like we're going
to read this one right here, right now.

Speaker 3 (00:20):
Buggle up and hold on tight. We got it for
you here. It is the Strawberry Let it thank.

Speaker 1 (00:26):
You, not for your subject. She's getting more than money
from him. Dear Stephen Shirley, I'm a fifty one year
old man and I have a wife, but I haven't
lived with her in four years. It's a long story,
but I'll try to make a grief. Four years ago,
my cousin had a bad divorce and he needed somewhere
to stay, so my wife and I let him rent
one of our side of a duplex we own. I

(00:49):
made him promise to be respectful to my older tenant
that shared the duplex with him, because she's a Christian
woman that loves peace and quiet.

Speaker 2 (00:57):
He moved in, and in less than two two.

Speaker 1 (01:00):
Weeks, the old lady called me to complain about sex
noises coming from his side of the duplex.

Speaker 2 (01:05):
I talked to my cousin and asked him to knock
it off.

Speaker 1 (01:09):
I work full time, so my wife manages our three
properties and collects the rent.

Speaker 2 (01:14):
But I'm the only one the old lady will talk to.

Speaker 1 (01:17):
She's never liked my wife, and one evening, i'd stopped
by the duplex to put some reflective numbers on the
old lady's side of the duplex because she said her
girlfriends couldn't find her house at night. I pulled up
and my wife's car was parked in the sideyard, out
of plain view. I knocked on my cousin's door several

(01:37):
times and there was no answer. The old lady came
out of her door and she told me that they
can't hear me knocking because they're in there having sex
and making a bunch of noise. I told her that
I think it's my wife in there, and she reminded
me that she has never liked my wife, and then
said this must be why. She told me that the

(01:58):
car is always over there, so my wife is coming
by for more than the rent money. I broke the
window and I got in there and tried to body
slam my cousin. My wife moved out of our house
and into the raggedy duplex with my cousin. It's been
four years and they're still together. I still can't get

(02:18):
over it. How could they do this to me? Well,
because some people who are just low down and evil.
You know, you may still be married on paper, but
you don't have a wife. You may as well let
that go because she let it go a long time ago.
She left you then way back, and we can't pick

(02:40):
our relatives, so he's going to be your trifling cousin forever.
My advice to you is to first get a divorce
because clearly this marriage is over. It's been four years.
The next thing I would do is put them out
of the duplex. Put them out. It's been four years.
Your cousin should be able to get his own place
by now. He shouldn't be living off you anyway. I mean,

(03:03):
you said you can't get over it, but you're gonna
have to. You're gonna have to move on with your life.
I mean, life does go on. Try to get back
out there. You know, if you have friends, you can
hang out with them to ease back into the dating scene.
I know you're fifty one, I know that. But but
that's okay. You can ask a friend out for lunch,

(03:24):
you know, or for drinks. You gotta start going to
like get togethers and stuff like that, barbecues, church events,
comedy shows.

Speaker 2 (03:31):
Tommy, aren't you touring?

Speaker 4 (03:33):
Now?

Speaker 5 (03:33):
Right?

Speaker 2 (03:33):
You go see Tommy he's touring again.

Speaker 6 (03:36):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (03:37):
You know, you gotta do things to get yourself out there.
And the more you get out there, the easier it's
going to be to get over your faithful, tricky, tricky
tricky wife.

Speaker 2 (03:47):
Steve, Hello boy, love you.

Speaker 3 (03:54):
This letter right here is majorly disappointing to me.

Speaker 4 (04:00):
He's getting more than money from him.

Speaker 3 (04:04):
Now here's a fifty year old.

Speaker 4 (04:05):
Guy, he says, and I have a wife, but I
ain't live with her in four years. Well you can
quit calling her your wife.

Speaker 3 (04:17):
Four years.

Speaker 4 (04:19):
Preey, pretty, we passed the point to fix it four
years this over, dog, Uh, Your cousin had a bad
divorce and he needed somewhere to stay, which means.

Speaker 3 (04:39):
She took him to the cleaners. So he ain't got nothing.

Speaker 4 (04:44):
So your wife let him rent a duplex, and then
you promised to be respectful of the older tenant that
you shared a deep duplex with.

Speaker 3 (04:51):
Christian moment. She like peace and quiet.

Speaker 4 (04:54):
After two weeks, the lady called to complain about sex
noises coming from his side of the Deep duplex.

Speaker 3 (05:00):
So you went in there and you talked to the dude,
told them to cut it out.

Speaker 4 (05:03):
You work full time, so your wife manages the three
properties and collects the rent. But I'm the only person
that the old lady would talk to. She's never liked
my wife. This is very important information as we go
forward in this letter. The old lady knew something soon
as she met her. All women can pick up on

(05:28):
triflingness in a young woman. See one thing about women, y'all.
Women know each other.

Speaker 3 (05:36):
Women can fool.

Speaker 4 (05:37):
Us men, but they can't fool each other. Girl, girl, girl,
I know that I've seen this movie before. I know
this whole scene what you're doing. Women know Bargie will
spot some stuff that I would never even dream of
looking at it.

Speaker 3 (05:53):
She tripping. So the old lady knew something.

Speaker 4 (05:56):
One evening stop by the Deep Lex put some reflective
number was on the old lady's house. Course, they can't
find her house at night because they hold you pull
up and the wife's car parked on the other side
of out of plane youth. So you knocked on your
cousin doing and wasn't no answer. The old lady came
out here doing, told me they can't hear you knocking
cause they in not having sex and making a bunch

(06:19):
of noise.

Speaker 3 (06:20):
Well, I told her, I think that's my wife in there.

Speaker 4 (06:24):
She reminded me I have never liked her. Now she
and not bringing your cousin. You need to get the
bus and windows or something.

Speaker 2 (06:38):
All right, Steve, hold on hold that thought.

Speaker 1 (06:40):
Okay, we'll have part two of your response at twenty
three minutes after the hour. A strawberry letter for today.
She's getting more than money from him. We'll get back into.

Speaker 2 (06:49):
It right after this.

Speaker 1 (06:51):
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come on, Steve, let's recap today's strawberry letter. The subject

(07:33):
she's getting more than money from him.

Speaker 4 (07:37):
Well, I'm gonna recap this letter and then we're gonna
do a live re enactment. Okay, Shirley is gonna be
the woman. Oh, Tommy gonna be the guy.

Speaker 6 (07:51):
What the cook?

Speaker 3 (07:53):
Tommy, you know, trifling to trifling. Couk.

Speaker 4 (08:01):
Surely you're gonna be the woman that's in the house
that's been collecting the rent I'm gonna be the old lady.

Speaker 3 (08:07):
Next door since the old day'll stay next door. So
here we go.

Speaker 4 (08:12):
A fifty one year old man then rented out his
place to his cousin. Told him be respectful as an
old lady lived next door, But the old lady only
talks to him because the old lady don't like his wife,
who controls the three properties and collects all the rents. Well,
two weeks into the cousin moving in there, the lady

(08:32):
calling complained about loud sex noises coming by. The guy
goes over there one night to change the reflective lightness
on her address so her people can see her address
at night. He get over there and the lady come
out complaining again talking about some people in here having
loud sex noises. Well, he noticed his wife's car was
in the driveway out of playing view. So he said,

(08:54):
wait a minute, that I think that's my wife in there.
The lady said, I told you that I did, and
I like her. Now she in here banging your cousin
and you standing out here.

Speaker 3 (09:07):
So now.

Speaker 4 (09:10):
She told me that the car was always over there.
So now my wife coming over from mooting rent money.
So I broke the window and got in there and
tried to bodyslam my cousin.

Speaker 3 (09:24):
So I don't understand this part of the letter right here.

Speaker 4 (09:27):
I mean, see, if you broke the window and you
tried to body slam your cousin. See, once I break
the window, it's unfinished business.

Speaker 3 (09:37):
That's just the beginning.

Speaker 4 (09:40):
Breaking the wonder is a prelude me breaking your See
we got this behind Yeah, we ain't got to that yet.
But if I broke this window, stepped in here and
cut my back of my thigh on this glass, because
you got to climb through that window, you're gonna cut
your leg.

Speaker 3 (09:56):
Yeah, and he how old fifty what fifty one? He
can't get there? No way? Yeah?

Speaker 4 (10:03):
Okay, So my wife moved out of our house and
into the raggedy duplexure my cousin. It's been four years
and they still together. I still can't go over it.
And how I still can't get over how they do
this to me? How they did it, How they did
it easy? They both tricee, especially your wife. But while
you hanging around, she don't want you and she don't

(10:25):
deserve you. Now I'm understanding, what is it? You can't
get over? It's over. Everything's over except you. It's four years.
So now here we go. Here's the re enactment. Shirley,
you in the house with the man, because I'm the

(10:47):
old lady, sister, old Dale that stay next door. Tommy,
you the dude that's looking for your wife.

Speaker 3 (10:54):
And when they got cheated on. Okay, that's the one
that got cheated on, So is your own for him? Hello?

Speaker 2 (11:02):
Hello, Hey, Hey, how you doing?

Speaker 4 (11:05):
Hold on, shel I'm talking Tommy then came over to
the house, so let me talk to Comedy. We ain't
brought you in here. You in the house. You ain't
got nothing to say right now? You busy, you're not
making noises.

Speaker 6 (11:16):
Say ms, praise what you want to put the reflectors
there so I can put him on his faith.

Speaker 4 (11:20):
I want you to put it in there, cracking this
door to stop some of this racket in here. It's
some people in there having sakes. Who and who is
that howling.

Speaker 3 (11:31):
In there with him? With him? I don't know who?
Car to drive away?

Speaker 6 (11:36):
That's my that's my wife car right there, that's Joe
that's Joe Anne car right there, Joe Anne, that's my
wife car.

Speaker 5 (11:46):
Well, well, well I told you I never liked the
little hussay Hell, why that's.

Speaker 6 (11:55):
Now?

Speaker 3 (11:55):
I don't you tell me who boss it is? Signed?
It all hurt and ball and I've been here in
five hours?

Speaker 6 (12:03):
I love.

Speaker 3 (12:05):
Joy?

Speaker 5 (12:07):
What is you asking? Joe n because you know it's hers?
Joe White, Joe Ann, shut up your two.

Speaker 3 (12:13):
Loud in the skin looks suss.

Speaker 5 (12:21):
You call him Marcus phone, that's money house calling him people.

Speaker 3 (12:25):
Why don't you bust the one hour? What you'a was stupid?
Shout it out here talking about Marcaus and Joe Ed.

Speaker 6 (12:31):
You think I'm gonna cut myself if I if I
break the one? You think I'm gonna cut myself?

Speaker 3 (12:34):
Don't you think they ain't there? Cutting?

Speaker 5 (12:38):
Sounds like somebody getting sliced up pretty good to.

Speaker 3 (12:41):
Me, all right? I one the two three? Joey, What
what's going on in here? You heard him? He marks?

Speaker 6 (12:59):
I swam for the trying Drew. I'm finna try to
body slam your market. I swam here.

Speaker 5 (13:04):
What is all this trying? When is ax woodn't ghost?

Speaker 3 (13:09):
What did when the trying for you hit us? Half
in hell? Breathing off? What is your waiting?

Speaker 6 (13:15):
Now? I'm fishing to try. I swem fing to try
to body slam just a minute, just to try body slam.

Speaker 3 (13:24):
We gotta go. You ain't in here trying the new Hall.

Speaker 1 (13:28):
Post, your comments on today's Strawberry Letter and Steve Barby.

Speaker 5 (13:32):
When we come back, we're gonna continue to reenact me.
Look at me, look at you, Look at her naked.

Speaker 2 (13:43):
We'll be back right after this.

Speaker 3 (13:46):
You already know what time is your boy DC on flight?
You're listening to the Steve Harvey Morning Show.

Speaker 1 (13:51):
You're listening to the Steve Harvey Morning Show. All right,
we're back with part three of the Strubbery Letter. You know,
sometimes it's so good we have to do more than
two parts.

Speaker 3 (14:01):
Now, let me set up the reenactment.

Speaker 4 (14:03):
What happened was the fifty one year old man let
his cousin stay in his house. The wife handles the
properties for her and her husband and this Christian woman
that shares the deep duplex. The husband told his cousin
don't make no noise because she's a Christian woman. She
like a nice and choiet. Two weeks into it, a

(14:25):
lot of sex noise coming from the house. The old
lady calls over reports it. He goes over to the
house to change the address. One night, he see his
wife's cap in the driveway and he knocking on the
door to see what she in. Now, the old lady
come out and said, they can't hear you knocking because
they're in not making sex noises. He said, well, I

(14:45):
think that's my wife in now. Well, the old lady going,
I told you I didn't like that, helfel. And so
now the reenactment begins. Shirley is the daughter woman joe
Anne that's in the house. Marcus is the trifling cousin.
Tommy he the husband and the husband in here, and
sister old Day'll stay next door. So now here we go,

(15:09):
and we on the porch and let's go.

Speaker 3 (15:12):
Uh. Eugene is knocking on the door.

Speaker 5 (15:17):
Joe, it's her, Marcus, it's him where and me?

Speaker 3 (15:25):
She got the people's right, Marcus De'Andre Daniels. I know
you ain't in there with my wife, Marc and Joe
and the hussey. I'm f in the bust this window.
I'm telling you, I'm in the bust.

Speaker 5 (15:40):
This window, fitting the share the water, Joe, waiting on
you to do something too. Three and a half Joe,
mars the wer What is your waiting on you?

Speaker 3 (15:55):
J see you would hear niked Joe. She just ain't
got no clothes off? Why Why is your licking Joe?

Speaker 1 (16:11):
I'm not naked.

Speaker 2 (16:12):
I got clothes on. Baby lift in the rent, walked
up from there.

Speaker 3 (16:18):
I'm going to try the body slam you marked? Did
you hit me?

Speaker 6 (16:22):
Tried?

Speaker 3 (16:23):
Track?

Speaker 5 (16:23):
Track doesn't sound like they was in there trying. Sounds
like somebody was getting some accomplished.

Speaker 3 (16:31):
It's been to help, Marked, It's been to help.

Speaker 5 (16:34):
Right here, right here, when it go down, right here,
No wonder she over here.

Speaker 2 (16:49):
By Eugene.

Speaker 1 (16:50):
I'm with Marcus now baby bye whole years. All right,
we'll let more of the sea. Hardy Morning Show coming
up right after this.

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