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It is the Strawberry let Us subject he can't stand
being alone.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Dear Stephen Shirley.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
I was living with my brother and his wife for
a while after they had a baby and it was.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Time for her to return to work.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
They didn't want the baby going to a babysitter yet,
so I agreed to move in and help out. I'm
retired and my daughter is in college, so I have
a lot of time on my hands.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
This is not what I signed up for, though.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
My sister in law is a flight attendant and she
does international flights, which means she's gone for days at
a time. The first time she left, my brother left too.
He was gone all weekend and he did not tell
me where he was He got home and washed all
of his clothes and then went to pick up his
wife from the airport. The next time she left the house,
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he invited a woman over to the house, and he
told me that he was ordering out and watching a
movie with his friend. After I saw the fourth different
woman in the house, I asked my brother if he
had a problem and how could he do this to
his wife like that. He said that he doesn't like
to be alone and the women help him pass the time.
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I told him, I told him if he's needing to
pass the time, he could keep his five month old
son all by himself. He continued to bring other women
in the house, so I told his wife I was
leaving because something came up and I needed to be
closer to home. She asked me if it was because
my brother was being a woman. I lied and said
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that wasn't it at all. She's been knowing and hasn't
said anything to him about it, and that makes me
even more uncomfortable staying there. I'm not sure if she's
insecure or has low self esteems, and she had the baby,
but my brother's behavior is unbelievable. I want to ask
her how much she knows, but I don't want to
open Pandora's box. What do I do? Well, I say,
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you do the same thing you're doing. You know, look,
you got to you gotta get out of there. You're
doing the right thing. I think you're absolutely doing the
right thing.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
Get out. Tell her something came up and you got
to go.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
Because it's just way too much happening in and out
of this man's house, in this woman's house. It's it's
too much happening in their marriage that you don't need
to be a part of. I mean, this dad needs
to watch his own baby. If he's got this kind
of free time, why isn't he at home with this baby.
Surely his son is more important than the women he's
(03:01):
cheating with on the baby's mom with. I just think
this is so disrespectful. I mean, that's needless to say,
but he's bringing the women in the house.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
The crazy part.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
Is his wife seemed to know that he cheats, right,
even though she called it is he womanizing? You do
not approve of what your brother's doing, that's quite obvious.
He doesn't care how you feel, though, because he's not
trying to stop. He doesn't respect you or appreciate you
for what he's what you're doing. I mean, you know,
he just says that he doesn't like to be alone.
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I just think it's sad what he's doing. It's horrible
what he's doing, Horrible for his marriage, for his wife
or the baby, everybody involved. But you don't need to
be there, you know, because they're not trying to fix this.
You have your own life. I mean I say, do
your own thing, you know, with your life. You say
you have a lot of time on your hands, but
they don't appreciate you. This is craziness. Poor baby, you know,
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just I just feel bad for the baby because you
know what, what are these parents doing, especially the dad, Steve,
I don't want.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
To be alone? Whoa Innimo? Crazy sugar foot or how players?
Speaker 2 (04:22):
It was just a silly game.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
We were playing.
Speaker 4 (04:28):
Oh see the think about old schoolers.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
They have a song for everything. I don't want to
be alone in Nimo.
Speaker 4 (04:42):
That's all I could hear the whole time he was
reading this letter. Is flat out crazy man? What boy?
Speaker 3 (04:51):
What listen?
Speaker 4 (04:54):
This woman had a baby, her and her husband. They
wanted didn't want the baby go to babysitter, so so
they paid you to move into town.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
And live with them.
Speaker 4 (05:04):
The woman's a flight attendant and she does international flights.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
After she got on her feet, she went back to work.
You there watching the baby.
Speaker 4 (05:13):
You had no idea how much watching your people don't
have to do. I'm talking about you got to be
stared at this baby. Yeah, I mean you ain't gotta
breatheable moment. Now, your wife, your sister in law, goes
on the international trip. Your brother who is the father
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of the baby with the woman who is the international
flight attendant.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
He drop off at the airport.
Speaker 4 (05:40):
You ain't seen him all weekend. So now he got home,
washed all his clothes, then went to Piggy's wife from
from the airport.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
He had to wash them clothes. Ain't no telling him
once on them clothes?
Speaker 4 (05:56):
Oh especially if one of these girls is a strip
of the glitter that on them clothes.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
Girl, Oh lord, that glitter don't.
Speaker 4 (06:09):
Come out, so anyway, he's trying to wash it out.
The next time she left the house, he invited a
woman over to the house, and he told you he
was ordered out to watch a movie with his friend.
What at your house do?
Speaker 3 (06:27):
And then he didn't.
Speaker 4 (06:28):
Now, let me tell you what before we go to
break after I saw the fourth different woman in the house.
Oh this boy visit man. When I come back, I'll
share you the rest of it. We're pretty much gonna
be sold through, all right. Coming up part two of
Steve's response to today's Strawberry letter. A subject he can't
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stand being alone. We'll hear his response at twenty three
minutes after.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
Right after that.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
All right, come on, Steve, let's recap today's strawberry letter.
The subject is he can't stand being alone.
Speaker 4 (07:00):
Well, here's the deal. Bottom line is this man and
woman are married. Your brother is married to this woman
who's a flight attendant.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
They had a baby.
Speaker 4 (07:07):
They didn't want a baby to go to a babysitter.
They hired you and brought you in full time.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
Nanny.
Speaker 4 (07:12):
You there, but you didn't realize what your job didn't
tell because she's an international flight attendant, so she's gone
for days at a time.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
She took her first trip out of town.
Speaker 4 (07:21):
Then your brother didn't tell you this, but he took
a trip somewhere. He was gone for the whole weekend,
came back in and washed his clothes, tried to get
all the glitter and make him hair out of it,
and then went to that point and picked up his wife.
And then the next time she left the house, he
invited another woman over to the house and told you,
the sister that wrote this letter, he was ordering out
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and gonna watch a movie with his friend. After I
saw the fourth different woman in the house, the letter
writer then turns her brother and asked her brother if
he had a problem, and how could he do his
wife like that?
Speaker 3 (07:56):
This is what the letter is about.
Speaker 4 (07:58):
Right there, he said, out of his own mouth, with
his own lips perched. He don't like to be alone,
and the women help him pass the time. Boy, there's
golf checkers online, of business, you can go to gym.
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You can take up cooking. Here's the big one you
could do. If you really need to pass some time,
try watching a baby.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
How about that?
Speaker 4 (08:31):
You talk about time? Put that down, set that quick.
Crawling over there, leave that alone, get out and off
of there. Shut up, be quiet, don't go over there,
stay out of there.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
What are you doing? Where is he? Where is he? Where?
Speaker 4 (08:45):
Don't climb up on that. But if you want to
just pass some time watching a baby and fill it up,
I'm talking about the brim So now he tells you
they help him pass the time. Then you said he
could keep his five month old son by hisself. Now,
(09:08):
after you told him that, your brother continued to bring
other women in the house. So then you told his
wife that you was leaving because something came in up
and I need to be closer to home.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
Nice move.
Speaker 4 (09:19):
The wife turned around and asked you, is it because
your brother was a womanizer?
Speaker 3 (09:27):
I lied and said that wasn't it at all. And
then you.
Speaker 4 (09:30):
Realize that she been knowing this and ain't said anything
about it, and that makes you even more uncomfortable staying there.
Now you're saying that you don't know if she's incnsuit
excuse me, insecure, or got low self esteem since she
had the baby. But you think your brother's behavior is unbelievable.
(09:51):
I want to ask her how much she knows, which
you shouldn't because she just told you he was a womanizer.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
The details is unimportan.
Speaker 4 (10:00):
When a woman is a flight attendant and she go
out on the trip, you don't think she called a
check on the baby. You don't think she asked him
what is the baby doing right now? FaceTime me with
the baby. He can't answer that because the baby. He
holding FaceTime with her.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
You see what I'm saying.
Speaker 4 (10:20):
So now she know because ain't no woman not gonna
know when you going for a whole weekend and you
supposed to be at the house with a baby. Women
know how to check up on that stuff. She probably
got his phone pinged.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
He don't know it.
Speaker 4 (10:37):
And I can't tell you she been knowing this dude's cheating,
but you don't need to. Then you say you don't
want to ask her how much she knows because you
don't want to open up a Pandora's box. What do
I do? I think you should do exactly what you
planned on doing, move back closer to home, and let
your brother figure it out, because your brother he doing
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way too much. First of all, man, you want to
know somebody I've never understood. I have never understood, and
I know, ladies you may have some problems for what
I'm about to say, but I've never understood a man
who cheats and brings the woman to the home of
his wife. It's just another level of okay. You know,
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like you you're very familiar with. There's honor amongst thieves,
there's a cold amongst the thieves. There's a cheatah cold too, Yeah,
what's the cheating? Well, bringing a woman to your house
where your family is a foul blood, that's just like
you know, that's another level of disrespect. I got you
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stepping out, I got you, got a side piece, I
got all this, but you're gonna bring the side.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
Piece to your house.
Speaker 4 (11:48):
Two things is wrong right here while you and her,
Because who is the skink that know you marry and
go over your wife house and sitting up watching movies.
Tell you in the incident I had a long time
ago then, I would definitely keep the names out to
protect the innocent, mostly meet.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
It's a pertinent piece of information.
Speaker 4 (12:13):
There, sir a partner who was famous before I was.
I stayed at his house and he had a girl
over his house and his wife went out of town
to ski, and he bought a girl to the house.
I'm upstairs and I'm looking over the railing, and I
see the whole thing now on the couch and everything.
She leave early in the morning. I said, dog, your
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wife could come back early. He said, dog, this is
my house. I had this house whore I married her.
What session I had with that dude right there? I said, bruh,
listen to me. I've had that experience before and it's
not gonna work out.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
Wow. Sorry, we're out of time.
Speaker 4 (12:51):
Steve whoa wellse just to help you out, let me
just be to It's also was his.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
Divorce right yeah. Yeah.
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