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Speaker 1 (00:01):
It is time now for today's Strawberry Letter. And if
you need advice on relationships, dating, work, sex, parenting, and more,
please submit your Strawberry Letter to Steve HAARVEYTHM dot com
and click submit Strawberry Letter. We could be reading your
letter live on the air, just like we're going to
read this one right here, right now, and you never know,
it could be yours.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
It could be yours. Buckle up and hold on tight.
We got it for you here. It is Strawberry Letter.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
Thank you nephew. Subject sleeping in the next room. Dear
Stephen Shirley. I got married two months ago and we
are in the process of moving to our new home,
which has been owned by my husband's family for years.
We get to stay there for free, but the house
needs new carpet and fresh paint. My father in law
has offered to do the work for himself, or the
(00:49):
work himself as our wedding gift. I don't want to
burden him with extra work because we are staying with
him while our house is being worked on, and he
said he's doing it mostly for me, But I I
didn't understand what that meant until recently. A week ago.
I stopped by the house to see how the updates
were looking. My father in law was there with another
(01:10):
worker painting. My hair was down, so my father in
law walked up to me and put a paper bonnet
over my hair. I could smell his cologne and his
breath on my neck, and at that very moment, I
realized that it is only a matter of time before
I give in to this man. Here's a backstory. My
father in law is handsome, well groomed, with wavy hair
(01:32):
and a moisturized beard. He's turning fifty soon, but you
can't tell. He used to flirt with me all the time,
but he stopped right before my wedding. Now that my
husband and I are living with him, I'm finding it
harder to resist him. He knows I'm always up late,
so he texted me the other night saying, go to
bed beautiful while I was watching a movie. I told
(01:54):
him to come watch the movie with me, and he
said he wouldn't be able to concentrate on the movie.
That saying to me that I need to get my
husband and I into an apartment pronto before he catches
me sleeping in the next room with his daddy. Every
part of me is longing for this older, distinguished man.
How can I convince my husband that we should move
(02:15):
without telling him exactly why?
Speaker 3 (02:19):
What?
Speaker 2 (02:20):
Girl? You are?
Speaker 1 (02:23):
What? Okay, this whole letter is out of order, and
I got to say, please don't do this. I mean,
just because this man is fine and well groomed and
all of that, that's absolutely no reason for you to
commit the ultimate betrayal and sleep with your husband's father.
Come on, now, this is wrong on every single level.
(02:44):
It's not just blanking okay, that won't be it. This
is going to break up a family. It's gonna break
up your marriage. It's going to ruin your lives. I mean, yeah,
you're right. Get out of there as soon as possible
and create distance between you and your husband and his father.
And I'm telling you you won't be able to live
this down if this goes down. This is not a game,
(03:07):
this is not a movie. You are playing with fire
with people's lives here talking about it's just a matter
of time before I give in to this man. If
you don't care about your marriage, at least care about
the relationship with the father and son. Of course, Dad
is all the way wrong for flirting with you and
all of that, But you don't have to let him
(03:28):
have sex with you. That's what you're thinking about. This
is on you. You have to show some sort of
self control here, walk away, let this go. Choose to
do the right thing. You won't regret this, you got
you can't. This is craziness, Steve.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
Well, I got married, this lady says, I got married
two months ago. And y'all trying to move into this
new house. But and it's owned by your husband's family,
and you all are gonna stay there free. But the
house needs new carpet and some fresh paint.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Now.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
Your father in law has offered to do the work
itself as a gift wedd and gift. I didn't want
to burden him with the extra work because we're staying
with him while our house is being worked on. You
probably staying there free too. He said he's doing it
mostly for me. I didn't understand what it meant in
to recently. Well, ain't nothing free, nothing, very little free
(04:35):
things in life.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
Now, there are.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
People who freely love people. There people who freely give
of everything. And that's very true. Everything else that's free
come with a cost. Once again, you freely love your
children you freely love your spouse and your maiden, you
(04:58):
freely love some your friends. But when it's not genuine
everything else that's free cost it just costs, man. And
I hate to say that, and this guy knows that.
But it's two people that's dead wrong in this letter,
(05:19):
you and the father. It's just nowhere around the stinkness
of both of y'all. Just y'all trifling man, And it's
no other way for me to put it.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
Go put it.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
A week ago you stopped by the house and see
how the updates were looking. My father in law was
there with another work of painting. My hair was down,
so my father in law walke up to me to
put a paper bonnet over my hair. I could smell
his cologne it through the paint. Then that painting your
whole house and you can smell his cologne through the paint.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
How much brute he got on? Lady? You know what
I mean?
Speaker 3 (06:00):
You wanted to write us down, You want to do hell,
because ain't no way in hell. You walking in a
house that being painted and you can smell this man's cologne.
You know what paint smell like?
Speaker 2 (06:15):
Fresh? Open up?
Speaker 3 (06:15):
Can paint two people in that paint rollers, brushes, girls.
Stop you lie. I could smell his cologne and his
breath on my neck.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
Terriful.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
The only way you can smell cologne and breath is
both of them his bad.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
All right, hold on, Steve, we'll have part two of
your response coming up at twenty three minutes after the hour.
The subject of today's strawberry letter sleeping in the next room.
We'll get back into it right after this. You're listening
Steve Morning Show. All right, Steve, come on, let's recap
(06:58):
today's strawberry letter. The subject is sleeping in the next room.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
Lady is in a situation that her and her father
in law are contemplating, and both of these people are trifling.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
This woman's been married two most two most.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
They wedding gifted to stay in the family's house for free,
but the house needs some carpet and paint. Father in
law offered due to work hisself as a wedding gift.
But you didn't want to burden him with no extra
work because y'all staying with him while the house is
being worked on.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
He said, he's mostly doing it for me.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
All this free stuff, free carpet, free paint, free work,
free house, free crib, free places, stay until it gets fixed.
A week ago, my father in law was there with
another work of paint. My hat was down, so my
father in law walked up to me put a paper
bonnet over my hair. I could smell his cologne and
his breath on my neck. At that very moment, I
(07:57):
realized that it's only a matter of time before I
give in to this man. Here is the back story,
all right, we all know the backstory. You tricky. He tricky,
and you've been tricky. You was tricky for your marriage
your husband. You tricky after you married your husband. The
(08:18):
father in law was tricky before y'all got married. And
your your father in law is so tricky. He even
tricky as a father, which is the worst kind.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
It's worse.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
It's worse coming from the father, because that's the ultimate betrayal.
Divorces happened all the time. But to get dogged out
and brutalized and and and and and and and and
and and cheated on by your father though he low down, man,
(08:50):
he low down. And but you you the other trick
in this thing. Here the backstory. My father in law
is handsome, that ain't backstoring. That's just your father in law.
This is see backstory is what happened to you all
prior to this. This ain't no backstory. All you telling
(09:11):
us is why you want this man. My father in
law is handsome, well groomed, with wavy hair and a
moisturized bed. He got wavy hair, that's it. That's what
it took. And he has some and he got a
moisturized bed. Most brothers moisturized.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
They be.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
Damn there, all of them, bed oil, all that sheen spray.
And you're okay, he's.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
Turning fifty soon. But you can't tell.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
He used to flirt with me all the time, but
he stopped right before I wed.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
Now that's backstory, right.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
And then you said, now that my husband and I
are living with him, I'm finding it harder to resist him.
So are you saying he's still flirting with you or
are you just stuck on the times when the old
good looking, well groomed, beard, moisturized, wavy hair man was
hollering at you before. So anyway, I'm finding it harder
(10:21):
to resist him.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
Really.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
He knows I'm always up late, So he texted me
the other night, he said, go to bed beautiful. While
I was watching a movie. I told him to come
watch the movie with me, and he said he wouldn't
be able to concentrate on the movie. Y'all just playing
with fire in here. But see, this is how you get.
This is how you get in real trouble. This is
(10:43):
this is domestic violence right here. And I'm talking about
father and son domestic violence. Yeah, see this is what
I'm talking about. I'm not saying man physically abusing a woman.
That's not what I'm saying. And I've never promoted that
ever in my life. But you you, you, like Shirley said,
you about to destroy a family that's already destroyed because
(11:05):
that dad ain't worth for damn. Noway, he looked pretty
ass old man with wavy head. He been just a
pretty ass old man, that's all he is. Old punk
ass dude. Because he got some little wavy heir probably
light skin too, a little light skin, punk ass.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
That what he is and what he is ain't.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
Ain't too many dog skinned people got wavy hair. So
you know it's just no hell no, no, I ain't
gna hell no hell no old light skin, punk ass,
light skin, high yell ass boy. He got a little
well moisturized bed. And you know he's been pretty all
his life. He's still holding on. Now he's gonna take
(11:44):
his son's woman. Man, you a dog, You a low
down dog. Yes, every part of me is longing for
this old and distinguished man. How can I convince my
husband that we should move without telling him exactly?
Speaker 2 (11:58):
Why? What?
Speaker 3 (12:00):
Why don't you get some damn self control? Why don't
you get some dignity? Why don't you get some loyalty?
Why don't you remember why you got married?
Speaker 2 (12:08):
Why don't you.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
Remember that's your husband? Why can't you remember the vials?
Why can't you stay away from this one old man?
It ain't just him. If this older distinguished man creates
a problem for you after two months of marriage, it's
a whole lot of men gonna create a problem from you.
Your dusty, corrupt behind. Don't need to be married because
(12:30):
you tricky. So when y'all go get an apartment and
the handsome man across the hall, what you think is
gonna happen? Then what about when the younger distinguished man
come up to you. It's just a matter of time
they saying that I need to get my that's saying
(12:51):
to me that I need to get my husband out
an apartment before he catches me sleeping in the next
room with his dad.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
Right, Okay, Yeah, So post your comments on today's Strawberry
Letter at Steve Harvey FM on Instagram and Facebook, and
check out the Strawberry Letter podcast on demand now. Coming
up at forty six minutes after the hour, we'll have
more of the Steve Harvey Morning Show right after this.
You're listening to the Steve Harvey Morning Show.
It is time now for today's Strawberry Letter. And if
you need advice on relationships, dating, work, sex, parenting, and more,
please submit your Strawberry Letter to Steve HAARVEYTHM dot com
and click submit Strawberry Letter. We could be reading your
letter live on the air, just like we're going to
read this one right here, right now, and you never know,
it could be yours.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
It could be yours. Buckle up and hold on tight.
We got it for you here. It is Strawberry Letter.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
Thank you nephew. Subject sleeping in the next room. Dear
Stephen Shirley. I got married two months ago and we
are in the process of moving to our new home,
which has been owned by my husband's family for years.
We get to stay there for free, but the house
needs new carpet and fresh paint. My father in law
has offered to do the work for himself, or the
(00:49):
work himself as our wedding gift. I don't want to
burden him with extra work because we are staying with
him while our house is being worked on, and he
said he's doing it mostly for me, But I I
didn't understand what that meant until recently. A week ago.
I stopped by the house to see how the updates
were looking. My father in law was there with another
(01:10):
worker painting. My hair was down, so my father in
law walked up to me and put a paper bonnet
over my hair. I could smell his cologne and his
breath on my neck, and at that very moment, I
realized that it is only a matter of time before
I give in to this man. Here's a backstory. My
father in law is handsome, well groomed, with wavy hair
(01:32):
and a moisturized beard. He's turning fifty soon, but you
can't tell. He used to flirt with me all the time,
but he stopped right before my wedding. Now that my
husband and I are living with him, I'm finding it
harder to resist him. He knows I'm always up late,
so he texted me the other night saying, go to
bed beautiful while I was watching a movie. I told
(01:54):
him to come watch the movie with me, and he
said he wouldn't be able to concentrate on the movie.
That saying to me that I need to get my
husband and I into an apartment pronto before he catches
me sleeping in the next room with his daddy. Every
part of me is longing for this older, distinguished man.
How can I convince my husband that we should move
(02:15):
without telling him exactly why?
Speaker 3 (02:19):
What?
Speaker 2 (02:20):
Girl? You are?
Speaker 1 (02:23):
What? Okay, this whole letter is out of order, and
I got to say, please don't do this. I mean,
just because this man is fine and well groomed and
all of that, that's absolutely no reason for you to
commit the ultimate betrayal and sleep with your husband's father.
Come on, now, this is wrong on every single level.
(02:44):
It's not just blanking okay, that won't be it. This
is going to break up a family. It's gonna break
up your marriage. It's going to ruin your lives. I mean, yeah,
you're right. Get out of there as soon as possible
and create distance between you and your husband and his father.
And I'm telling you you won't be able to live
this down if this goes down. This is not a game,
(03:07):
this is not a movie. You are playing with fire
with people's lives here talking about it's just a matter
of time before I give in to this man. If
you don't care about your marriage, at least care about
the relationship with the father and son. Of course, Dad
is all the way wrong for flirting with you and
all of that, But you don't have to let him
(03:28):
have sex with you. That's what you're thinking about. This
is on you. You have to show some sort of
self control here, walk away, let this go. Choose to
do the right thing. You won't regret this, you got
you can't. This is craziness, Steve.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
Well, I got married, this lady says, I got married
two months ago. And y'all trying to move into this
new house. But and it's owned by your husband's family,
and you all are gonna stay there free. But the
house needs new carpet and some fresh paint.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Now.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
Your father in law has offered to do the work
itself as a gift wedd and gift. I didn't want
to burden him with the extra work because we're staying
with him while our house is being worked on. You
probably staying there free too. He said he's doing it
mostly for me. I didn't understand what it meant in
to recently. Well, ain't nothing free, nothing, very little free
(04:35):
things in life.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
Now, there are.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
People who freely love people. There people who freely give
of everything. And that's very true. Everything else that's free
come with a cost. Once again, you freely love your
children you freely love your spouse and your maiden, you
(04:58):
freely love some your friends. But when it's not genuine
everything else that's free cost it just costs, man. And
I hate to say that, and this guy knows that.
But it's two people that's dead wrong in this letter,
(05:19):
you and the father. It's just nowhere around the stinkness
of both of y'all. Just y'all trifling man, And it's
no other way for me to put it.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
Go put it.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
A week ago you stopped by the house and see
how the updates were looking. My father in law was
there with another work of painting. My hair was down,
so my father in law walke up to me to
put a paper bonnet over my hair. I could smell
his cologne it through the paint. Then that painting your
whole house and you can smell his cologne through the paint.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
How much brute he got on? Lady? You know what
I mean?
Speaker 3 (06:00):
You wanted to write us down, You want to do hell,
because ain't no way in hell. You walking in a
house that being painted and you can smell this man's cologne.
You know what paint smell like?
Speaker 2 (06:15):
Fresh? Open up?
Speaker 3 (06:15):
Can paint two people in that paint rollers, brushes, girls.
Stop you lie. I could smell his cologne and his
breath on my neck.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
Terriful.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
The only way you can smell cologne and breath is
both of them his bad.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
All right, hold on, Steve, we'll have part two of
your response coming up at twenty three minutes after the hour.
The subject of today's strawberry letter sleeping in the next room.
We'll get back into it right after this. You're listening
Steve Morning Show. All right, Steve, come on, let's recap
(06:58):
today's strawberry letter. The subject is sleeping in the next room.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
Lady is in a situation that her and her father
in law are contemplating, and both of these people are trifling.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
This woman's been married two most two most.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
They wedding gifted to stay in the family's house for free,
but the house needs some carpet and paint. Father in
law offered due to work hisself as a wedding gift.
But you didn't want to burden him with no extra
work because y'all staying with him while the house is
being worked on.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
He said, he's mostly doing it for me.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
All this free stuff, free carpet, free paint, free work,
free house, free crib, free places, stay until it gets fixed.
A week ago, my father in law was there with
another work of paint. My hat was down, so my
father in law walked up to me put a paper
bonnet over my hair. I could smell his cologne and
his breath on my neck. At that very moment, I
(07:57):
realized that it's only a matter of time before I
give in to this man. Here is the back story,
all right, we all know the backstory. You tricky. He tricky,
and you've been tricky. You was tricky for your marriage
your husband. You tricky after you married your husband. The
(08:18):
father in law was tricky before y'all got married. And
your your father in law is so tricky. He even
tricky as a father, which is the worst kind.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
It's worse.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
It's worse coming from the father, because that's the ultimate betrayal.
Divorces happened all the time. But to get dogged out
and brutalized and and and and and and and and
and and cheated on by your father though he low down, man,
(08:50):
he low down. And but you you the other trick
in this thing. Here the backstory. My father in law
is handsome, that ain't backstoring. That's just your father in law.
This is see backstory is what happened to you all
prior to this. This ain't no backstory. All you telling
(09:11):
us is why you want this man. My father in
law is handsome, well groomed, with wavy hair and a
moisturized bed. He got wavy hair, that's it. That's what
it took. And he has some and he got a
moisturized bed. Most brothers moisturized.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
They be.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
Damn there, all of them, bed oil, all that sheen spray.
And you're okay, he's.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
Turning fifty soon. But you can't tell.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
He used to flirt with me all the time, but
he stopped right before I wed.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
Now that's backstory, right.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
And then you said, now that my husband and I
are living with him, I'm finding it harder to resist him.
So are you saying he's still flirting with you or
are you just stuck on the times when the old
good looking, well groomed, beard, moisturized, wavy hair man was
hollering at you before. So anyway, I'm finding it harder
(10:21):
to resist him.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
Really.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
He knows I'm always up late, So he texted me
the other night, he said, go to bed beautiful. While
I was watching a movie. I told him to come
watch the movie with me, and he said he wouldn't
be able to concentrate on the movie. Y'all just playing
with fire in here. But see, this is how you get.
This is how you get in real trouble. This is
(10:43):
this is domestic violence right here. And I'm talking about
father and son domestic violence. Yeah, see this is what
I'm talking about. I'm not saying man physically abusing a woman.
That's not what I'm saying. And I've never promoted that
ever in my life. But you you, you, like Shirley said,
you about to destroy a family that's already destroyed because
(11:05):
that dad ain't worth for damn. Noway, he looked pretty
ass old man with wavy head. He been just a
pretty ass old man, that's all he is. Old punk
ass dude. Because he got some little wavy heir probably
light skin too, a little light skin, punk ass.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
That what he is and what he is ain't.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
Ain't too many dog skinned people got wavy hair. So
you know it's just no hell no, no, I ain't
gna hell no hell no old light skin, punk ass,
light skin, high yell ass boy. He got a little
well moisturized bed. And you know he's been pretty all
his life. He's still holding on. Now he's gonna take
(11:44):
his son's woman. Man, you a dog, You a low
down dog. Yes, every part of me is longing for
this old and distinguished man. How can I convince my
husband that we should move without telling him exactly?
Speaker 2 (11:58):
Why? What?
Speaker 3 (12:00):
Why don't you get some damn self control? Why don't
you get some dignity? Why don't you get some loyalty?
Why don't you remember why you got married?
Speaker 2 (12:08):
Why don't you.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
Remember that's your husband? Why can't you remember the vials?
Why can't you stay away from this one old man?
It ain't just him. If this older distinguished man creates
a problem for you after two months of marriage, it's
a whole lot of men gonna create a problem from you.
Your dusty, corrupt behind. Don't need to be married because
(12:30):
you tricky. So when y'all go get an apartment and
the handsome man across the hall, what you think is
gonna happen? Then what about when the younger distinguished man
come up to you. It's just a matter of time
they saying that I need to get my that's saying
(12:51):
to me that I need to get my husband out
an apartment before he catches me sleeping in the next
room with his dad.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
Right, Okay, Yeah, So post your comments on today's Strawberry
Letter at Steve Harvey FM on Instagram and Facebook, and
check out the Strawberry Letter podcast on demand now. Coming
up at forty six minutes after the hour, we'll have
more of the Steve Harvey Morning Show right after this.
You're listening to the Steve Harvey Morning Show.
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