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The Strawberry Letter heard on The Steve Harvey Morning Show, Wednesday, July 2nd, 2025. Subject: "She's Got One More Time"

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, it is time now for today's Strawberry Letter.

(00:02):
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Speaker 2 (00:21):
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Speaker 3 (00:23):
We got it for you here. It is the Strawberry Letter.

Speaker 2 (00:26):
Thanking a few subjects.

Speaker 1 (00:27):
She's got one more time, Okay, Stephen Shirley. I've been
dating a great man for almost six months. It's been
It was a long distance relationship at first, but I
moved to a city three weeks ago. I have an
aunt that lives in his same city, and I'm living
with her temporarily. My boyfriend gave me a key to
his apartment and told me to make myself at home,

(00:50):
so I stay with him most of the time. His
mother has a key to his apartment too, and she
comes and goes as she pleases. She usually stops by
after work, have a glass of wine and chill while
the traffic dies down. If she doesn't see my boyfriend's car.
She comes on in and won't even speak to me.
If I've cooked, she'll make a plate. If we have leftovers,

(01:12):
she'll make a plate. She doesn't talk to me, and
she doesn't ask before.

Speaker 2 (01:16):
She eats our food. After a few visits from.

Speaker 1 (01:19):
Her, I asked my boyfriend why she only comes by
when I'm there by myself. He laughed and said that
his mother doesn't trust me, so she comes to keep
an eye on me. I guess she thinks I'm a
thief and her son has money hidden in the walls
of his tiny, one bedroom apartment. I decided to ask
her if she had a problem with me, and she

(01:41):
got up in my face and told me that I
was a stranger and did nobody tell me to move
to her city and try to marry her son.

Speaker 2 (01:50):
While she talked, she was spitting food.

Speaker 1 (01:52):
Particles my way from between her spaced out brown teeth.

Speaker 2 (01:57):
My boyfriend walked in in the nick of time.

Speaker 1 (02:01):
I told him his mom had one more time to
ignore me in his home and eat something.

Speaker 2 (02:07):
I cooked or bought without asking.

Speaker 1 (02:10):
He agreed with me and asked his mama to give
him his house, but she refused to he's been joking
about his mom jumping on me, and I don't find
that funny at all.

Speaker 2 (02:22):
Should I break up with him?

Speaker 1 (02:25):
Well, you didn't say it, but you are aware that
you have a mama's boy on your hands, right, I mean,
he's been joking about his mom jumping on you, but
it's nothing funny about it at all, like you said,
and so far you've done nothing wrong, but please keep
it that way. What you don't want to do is
get into a fight with his crazy, disrespectful, rude, bully

(02:48):
of a mama, because I know you want to. I
know you do so, So the next question is what
are your plans with him? Is his mom right?

Speaker 2 (02:57):
Are you trying to marry her son? Is that the goal?
If it is, are you sure? Are you sure?

Speaker 1 (03:05):
His mom is more than a handful and he's got
to He's gotta be the one to stop her. Mama's
boys usually can't or won't do that. Okay, they won't
stop their moms. They won't say anything. At least he
said something, but mama's boys usually don't do that. I
am glad he talked to her, though, but it didn't
do any good. What he needs to do is let

(03:27):
her know that you are the woman of the house. Now.
He needs to get his keyback from his mom, change
the lots of whatever he's got to do. And if
that doesn't work, why don't you move back with your
aunt for a while, think about getting your own apartment
or moving, you know, back to where you came from,
breaking up with this guy, just moving on with your life,
because mama's boys usually don't make good husbands.

Speaker 2 (03:48):
All right, Steve.

Speaker 4 (03:51):
Uh, First of all, this isn't a case of mama's boy.
I want to clarify that the definition of a mama's boy,
he doesn't fall into that.

Speaker 3 (04:07):
In this letter, surely you said something very important.

Speaker 4 (04:11):
You said that mama's boys usually don't say anything to
their mother, but he did once because he's not a
mama's boy.

Speaker 3 (04:20):
He is not. Now his mama is off the check.

Speaker 4 (04:26):
And what this letter is about is about clearly you
have a problem with mama, and Mama got a problem
with you, and in your estimation, due.

Speaker 3 (04:39):
To the title of the letter, she got one more time.
That's all.

Speaker 4 (04:45):
Now you have moved into town with this man, and
nothing wrong with this. You staying with the aunt, nothing
wrong with that. You got to keep you boyfriend's house.
Say nothing wrong with that. You stay over there and
a lot. The problem is she, the mother in law,
has a key to the apartment too. Now this happened

(05:06):
before you got that, probably, and she usually stops by
after work with her glass of wine and chill while
the traffic dies down.

Speaker 3 (05:17):
If she don't.

Speaker 4 (05:18):
See my boyfriend's car, she come on in. It won't
even speak to me if I've cooked. Now here we go.
This is what we're dealing with, cause this is gonna
help you when you get to the last part of
this letter. If I've cooked, she'll make a plate. If
we have left over us, she'll make a plate. Now
we're dealing with a big girl here now, so you

(05:41):
need to weigh this in to this decision that you're
gonna try to make this letter later on.

Speaker 3 (05:47):
Well, you're making plates all she over there to make plates.
You know.

Speaker 4 (05:52):
Big people eat what's on the stove. Big people eat
what's in the fridge. Big people will eat what was
in fall. Big people will thaw stuff out in your
freezer to get it ready. Big people know how to
work the defrost button on the microwave. You know, I've

(06:14):
never done that in my life. I've never put anything
in the microwave to defrost.

Speaker 3 (06:19):
But big people do it. Never worked for me.

Speaker 4 (06:22):
Big people know how to do it. Big people know
how to defrost stuff in no time. Here's another thing,
and one more thing. Big people do not have air fries.
I found that out truth.

Speaker 1 (06:38):
All right, I'll have part two of Steve's response coming
up at twenty three minutes after the hour. Today's strawberry
letter subject She's Got one more Time.

Speaker 2 (06:48):
We'll get back into it right after this.

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Speaker 1 (07:29):
All right, come on, Steve, let's recap today's strawberry letter.
The subject She's Got one more Time.

Speaker 4 (07:33):
Well, this letter one more Time is coming from a
woman who has this boyfriend and she moved into town
to be closer to and she's been staying with an
aunt in that time. But he gave up key to
his one bedroom apartment. And the problem is she stays
over there a lot. But his mother had a key
to the apartment too. Now hit a deal. She been

(07:58):
staying over there often, cooking this stuff like that.

Speaker 3 (08:01):
But the mama.

Speaker 4 (08:02):
Stops by even if she don't see the boyfriend's car
in the driveway, and she'll come on in anyway and
won't even speak to the girl that's in the house.
She will eat and make a plate, and if we
have left over, she'll make a plate. So what I've

(08:23):
come to the conclusion in in my own conclusionary way.

Speaker 3 (08:27):
Is just a big girl, because that's what big people do.

Speaker 4 (08:31):
They make plates, They make plates, They do things you
don't do. Here's another clue that just a big person.
They can work the defrost button on the microwave.

Speaker 3 (08:45):
I've never done that before.

Speaker 4 (08:48):
I don't even know how to do it. Everything I
defrosts I put in the sink in some water.

Speaker 3 (08:56):
But that's you.

Speaker 4 (08:58):
Well, I'm just telling you. Big people ain't got time
for that process. They got to get this thought out. Now,
here's another thing I've noticed. Here's another that I can
tell you, girl this way. If you're dealing with a
big person, big people do not have air frars. I'm
gonna say that again. They do not have air frars.

Speaker 3 (09:26):
Here's another thing.

Speaker 4 (09:28):
I'm just giving you a rundown on big people because
this that ain't bout nothing. Listen, here's something else you'll
never find in their cupboard. Nothing that says vegan or paleo.
It ain't in there. They don't eat paleo chips. They
don't do none of that.

Speaker 3 (09:48):
Anyway.

Speaker 4 (09:52):
She doesn't talk to me, she don't ask before she
eat our food.

Speaker 3 (09:56):
And after a few visit for her, I asked my boyfriend,
was she on her come back when I'm there by myself.
He laughed and said, his mother don't trust me, so
she comes to keep it eye on me.

Speaker 4 (10:05):
Well, I guess she thinks I'm a thief and her
son got money hitting in the walls of his tiny,
little one bedroom apartment. So I decided to ask her
if she had a problem with me. Here we go,
just what the letter about?

Speaker 3 (10:16):
Now?

Speaker 4 (10:16):
She got up in my face, told me I was
a stranger and didn't nobody tell me to move to
her city and try to marry her son.

Speaker 3 (10:28):
A baby over protective mama. Here we go.

Speaker 4 (10:36):
While she talked, she was spitting food particles my way
from between her space out brown teeth.

Speaker 3 (10:43):
That's cause she'd.

Speaker 4 (10:44):
Gnawed them down and ate them to death. I'm telling you,
this is a big person. When your teeth is brown,
they got space in him. You done ate him and
gnawed them down. They ain't even regular teeth no more.
This is constantuting cost and chewing. You just spread him out.
You done push stuff up in between your teeth and

(11:05):
kept eating anyway, and just eventually to separated your teeth
and brown. Now, every time she talked, food coming tween
her teeth. This is a big girl now, So you
got to be careful. And your boyfriend walked in in
the nicked time. He walked in the nickeer time for you.
Because I'm finna tell you something. I told his mom

(11:27):
she got one more time to ignore me. I told
him his mom got one more time to ignore me
in the house and need something.

Speaker 3 (11:33):
I cooked the ball without asking.

Speaker 4 (11:35):
He agreed with me and asked his mama to give
him the key, but she refused to. He's been joking
about his mom jumping on me, and I don't find
it fun at all. Should I break up with him? Well,
this is the part you want to avoid, young sister.
Do not get in the fight with the mama. Now

(11:57):
listen to me. She ain't in good shape cause of
her way. But the first twenty seconds, though she gonna
hurt you, big girl, gonna hurt you with them brown teeth.
Put them spaces in between. Now the ain't gonna be
a fight. She gonna whoop this young girl in this letter.

(12:18):
They eventually, young girl can get the best of it.
She's strong and determined. Uh huh. But for twenty seconds though,
she gonna wish she had never met it mama, because
she gonna put it on it. She got one more time,
be folk, she started whooping your This is what this
mother look like to me. Now, I didn't want to
say that to you, you know, because I try to

(12:40):
be helpful with these letters.

Speaker 3 (12:41):
But I'm finish.

Speaker 4 (12:42):
Save yourself from getting your beef by this old, raggedy mouth,
brown tooth woman.

Speaker 3 (12:49):
We all wait issue and.

Speaker 4 (12:52):
Loving her son like you finna take her baby away
from her. You move to this town and you're doing
your Now your question you have is should I break
up with him? I don't think this is worth breaking up.
I think you got to break up with the mama.

Speaker 3 (13:11):
Now.

Speaker 4 (13:11):
If he not gonna help you break up with the mama,
then you're gonna have to let it break up with
not him, You're gonna have to break up with them.

Speaker 3 (13:19):
Start staying over your aunt's house until he get it together.
Don't come back. You're gonna end up moving back to
the city you came from.

Speaker 2 (13:27):
Yes, she is all right.

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