July 21, 2017 • 15 mins
I've been with my boyfriend for 4 years and I love him so much. I'm 25 and he is 30. He has promised me that one day we will get married, but there are just a few problems that I need to handle first. About a year ago, he lost his job and he took it pretty hard. The first month he wouldn't shower or brush his teeth. I told him that if he didn't shower, I would bust the windows in his car!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
M. Let's mark it up and hold onto audatorium. It's
the Bell Auditorium out here, baby. That's why I shot
my HBO special out of time. I sold on two
shows and sold my HBO special one man will it
(00:25):
Turner was shot. Folks have wonderful weekends. Were shot in
Suditorium July twitter night. Yes, that's oh, that's next Saturday.
That's the day after my birthday. Jay, y'all invite Charlie
Williams to your show. You've been invited. You've been invited
(00:49):
where and it doesn't matter. Outium July twenty nine, Baby,
Bell Ouditorium, Bell Auditorium. Ja. It just aimed to me, Jay,
weren't you there that night? I was there? Yes, when
with me? We was together at the Bail Auditorium. All right,
(01:15):
let's get to this letter, guys, as we reminisced. Yeah,
back down memory lane. Thank you, nephew. Subject my boyfriend
wants to be me, Shirley. It's not your turn yet, Steve.
(01:37):
You had a question. You had a question, Stephen, Shirley.
I've been with my boyfriend for four years and I
love him so much. I'm twenty five and he is thirty.
He has promised me that one day we will get married,
but there are just a few problems that I need
to handle first. About a year ago, he lost his
job and he took it pretty hard. The first month,
(01:59):
he would and shower or brush his teeth. I told
him that if he didn't shower, I would bust the
windows in his car. Needless to say, he showered. I
told him that he needs to groom himself so he
can feel good about himself. Well, a week after that,
I came home and found him wearing my heels while
he was cooking dinner. When I asked him why he
(02:20):
was wearing my heels, he said he wanted to see
how I do it. Just when I thought things couldn't
get worse, one night, we were about to make love
and he was wearing my panties. He said that all
of his underwear was dirty. Now he's been borrowing my
clothes all of the time instead of washing his. He
says that wearing my clothes makes him feel closer to me,
(02:44):
but I think he wants to be me. He has
dyed his hair the same color as mine and tries
to talk like me. I love this man, but I
don't know what to do I know, I know cares
hanging into you. Don't have any questions, You don't have
any questions for him? Put it in question for yes,
(03:09):
I don't how should I handle this? She asked, Please help.
I really don't know what to tell you. I'm I'm
with Stephen this one. I don't know. I mean, the
grooming situation is one thing, because you you've got to wash,
You've you've got to bathe, You've got to shower. I
mean that is really a given. If you don't, you
(03:31):
start to stink. Come on, and you have to brush
your teeth, no matter what. Really, really you're walking around
not showering or brushing your teeth. I mean as far
as wearing your clothes and dyeing his hair like you
and wanting to be you. I don't know what's going
on there. I have not huh a question put in
(03:55):
a question. If you could say it, you can say
it in a question for him. Uh, there is cause
for concern here. Uh if I were you, Uh, something
is going on with him? I mean the talking like you.
We've never had a situation like this in the Strawberry letter.
And you know Steve and I are not doctors. Were
not clinical people. We just try to give you common
(04:17):
sense answers. So the best I can do is to
it's to tell you I don't know what to do.
Take him to a doctor. I I don't know. I mean,
is he looking for a job, is he's trying to
get a job, or is he still out of work?
Because if he were working and stuff like that, it
seems like he would get back to himself. That's all
(04:39):
I have for you. Have him look for a job
and possibly seek some therapy of some kind. Steve, you're up.
I hope you have your questions. It's a good one,
but I knowsial and you don't need an anymore. She
(05:00):
had just been so full of controversial at all. Started
when I want to see the president. It's just January
for my birthday. It just started all the raving for me.
And then we're just halfway through the year. There Rodney
Hole got marrid about joke. I told I don't know
what that was. The people in Flip just I just
(05:25):
don't even know where to start with this over here.
I go, Okay, you have some questions. I'm twenty five,
he thirty. Yeah, said it was gonna get married one day.
But then by the year ago he lost your job.
He take it pretty hard. Most people take losing their job.
Most people go there's a lot of reactions when you
(05:49):
find out you ain't gotta come in the mall. Yeah. Yeah,
and it don't be that music playing either, that little
music here in the background. Yeah, but that ain't get
fired music, all right, So he took it pretty hard.
After the first month, he wouldn't shower or brush his teeth. Well,
(06:13):
he had to go to work, he figured, says, I
ain't gotta go nowhere. I'm just at the house. I
was just going and do me with her though. Well,
but I think brob me is you kept coming home
every evening, and to get worse, I ain't think right
now if you're miss brushing your teeth for three days,
it is a build up on him. They ain't smooth
(06:36):
no more. Run your turn crossing you see. You told
him if he didn't shower, you're gonna bust the windows
in his car. Needless to say, he showered. I told
himself he need to groom himself so he can feel
(06:56):
good about himself. One week after that wet then I
came home and found him. He was wearing my heels
while he was cooking dinner? Did he just say one minute? Yes? Well,
let me ask you this question then, because I got
a pretty very question. If you came home and he
(07:19):
was wearing your shoes cooking dinner, what size is your shoes?
I can't get my big toe down in margerie shoes,
but if he had on your heels, I think that
threatened to bust that window out the car? Really, Sita,
(07:40):
what size shoot do you wear? Where your man can
wear your damn shoe? And we're gonna take it from
here when we come back, because it might be more
things going on wrong than he ain't working and he
got your partents on. Listen all right? Part two of
the Strawberry Letter. Uh. If you have any issues, please
(08:01):
email us at Steve Harvey dot com. We will try
and help you out as best we can with your
relationship issues. My boyfriend wants to be me. Let's remember this.
The title is My boyfriend wants to be me? Heat
thirty lost his job, he starts stinking, smelling up the house.
(08:23):
Wouldn't babe, wouldn't brush your teeth? She said? If you're
don'ta do somethinge but your windows out the car so
he went on that. Then something he started washing again. Well,
then told him that he needed to, you know, pick
herself up and groom himself so he can feel good
about herself. Well, the week after that, she came home
and found him wearing her heels. Why why he would
(08:46):
cooking dinner? My question is what size do you have
where your man can get his foot down and stand
down and cook. That's my question to you. See, the
reason I had to ask that question is because I
can't get my toe in Marjorie shoe back the ones
(09:10):
that come to a point. I might get my big
toe and the toe next to it in there, but
that's it. Then you said, then he was wearing your heels.
Then you thought we couldn't get worse. One night, we're
about to make love and he had your pantis on. Now,
let me tell you this right here, I ain't never
(09:30):
had my white pantis on. What if I tried to
get him on, they probably ain't gonna get up over
my knees that he didn't got your drawers up again,
he got on your pumps and your draw Well, listen
to the picture that I'm trying to paint for you.
(09:53):
He got your pennies on, and they fitting. He said
all this underwear was dirties. He got yours on. Now
he's boring my clothes all the time instead of watching
he wear everything. Nah, we're getting down with this letter.
Really about your man can wear everything? You got your
(10:17):
jeans on, got your top on. He got everything on,
got your chunk on, got your watch on. I can't
wear none of my white watches, ain't enough links in them.
He got your watch on, your glasses, got your socks on,
(10:40):
Your workout equipment away, No workout equipment. He got your
He got your bra. Wow? How wide is your back on?
Your bro He didn't die had the same color as
(11:01):
mine that. I don't get that. And he tries to
talk like me. I love this man, but I don't
know what to do. How could I handle this? Please?
That leads us back to the top of the letter.
Suthing is my boyfriend wants to beat me. Well, it
sounds like me he damn near that. Seemed to me
(11:24):
like he damned near that. But why your boyfriend wants
to be you? Because maybe he thank you him? Huh,
you ain't following me. My boyfriend wants to meet me
maybe because he thank you him. You're only man. You're
gonna bust windows. You've been threatening. Yeah, y'all only got
(11:51):
a little size on you. You got to have some
size on it. Because most men can't wait that girls shoot.
Most men came. That's true. That's most men cannot wear
that girls shoe. Most men came. And that's what it
seemed like to me. It seemed to me like he
(12:14):
damned near you because he thank you, it's damn near him.
Oh so they want to see the old cliche who
wear the pants and his family about y'all. See, you can't.
You can't get that out of that. I got all
this stand because like him, I can't go to other
(12:35):
route that cost me my career. You're ready, you're right.
So that time I spent on my vacation, he even
talked me in to me, that's your friend, that your
friends the oldest friend ain't And still he went around
(12:56):
and even suck men. That's a dog whole. I'm not
going down that other route about all that. So I've
chosen to go to see. My vacation taught me something.
What did it teach you? To see? My vacation taught me?
You gotta quit giving these people paying the sticky with
because too many haters are you We've been telling you
(13:16):
that for years. Yeah, you've been telling me what. I'm
still a comedian. I'm still trying to do my job.
But then you know when you can't even tell the
damn joking on moment right? You know here it is now,
j what you think is going on in the left? Um?
(13:38):
I think he likes being in ladies shoes and ladies dresses.
That's what he enjoys. He enjoys that. You have to see.
I know that, Jake. See I'm not gonna say that
because taking my comments, Yeah, my ask to be awesome.
(13:58):
I'll be right up there with Kim right now. No,
I'm turning because they just theyn't took an innocent thing
being in the car when somebody's not cheating. It's not cheating,
you don't know. Yeah, And then thank god the TMZ
and people like that who will put a little bit
(14:20):
behind their story, they wouldn't even print that math and
Kevin and got him got his life going on about
his big But Kevin called me after the Trump visited
to tell me how to hell it? He man, you
know your heart, He's said man, you know you're good people.
Don't worry about these people out here because I know you, man,
because you're about to You're about to say something crazy,
(14:40):
and it was right. I don't say something crazy. I
had all that going on wild, I was in federal court.
What's that about? What did that come back to you?
Because what I'm not gonna do is do what j
is that tell? He like pressing in there thing? That
is what you're gonna get me to tell my joke about. No, No,
(15:03):
my joker is gonna be about them being the same
damn side. That's what my joke. Now, you can get
mad at me if you won't. I can't. I got
a whole different damn joke about this letter. Okay, Yeah,
well that's good you should have. And I'm glad you
know where the heir you're gonna be. Yeah, and you're
teaching time or something now, because even Tommy know that's
(15:24):
what steve where he had to. And you need to
know how many seats is at the beil too. I
got it tickets of vailable all right. Speaking of the nephew,
his his new segment is coming up. It's called who
are You mad at? Now? You can call nephew Tommy
(15:46):
and tell him eight seven seven twenty nine Steve eight
seven seven twenty nine Steve, we'll be back after this.
You're listening, Steve Haring Show
M. Let's mark it up and hold onto audatorium. It's
the Bell Auditorium out here, baby. That's why I shot
my HBO special out of time. I sold on two
shows and sold my HBO special one man will it
(00:25):
Turner was shot. Folks have wonderful weekends. Were shot in
Suditorium July twitter night. Yes, that's oh, that's next Saturday.
That's the day after my birthday. Jay, y'all invite Charlie
Williams to your show. You've been invited. You've been invited
(00:49):
where and it doesn't matter. Outium July twenty nine, Baby,
Bell Ouditorium, Bell Auditorium. Ja. It just aimed to me, Jay,
weren't you there that night? I was there? Yes, when
with me? We was together at the Bail Auditorium. All right,
(01:15):
let's get to this letter, guys, as we reminisced. Yeah,
back down memory lane. Thank you, nephew. Subject my boyfriend
wants to be me, Shirley. It's not your turn yet, Steve.
(01:37):
You had a question. You had a question, Stephen, Shirley.
I've been with my boyfriend for four years and I
love him so much. I'm twenty five and he is thirty.
He has promised me that one day we will get married,
but there are just a few problems that I need
to handle first. About a year ago, he lost his
job and he took it pretty hard. The first month,
(01:59):
he would and shower or brush his teeth. I told
him that if he didn't shower, I would bust the
windows in his car. Needless to say, he showered. I
told him that he needs to groom himself so he
can feel good about himself. Well, a week after that,
I came home and found him wearing my heels while
he was cooking dinner. When I asked him why he
(02:20):
was wearing my heels, he said he wanted to see
how I do it. Just when I thought things couldn't
get worse, one night, we were about to make love
and he was wearing my panties. He said that all
of his underwear was dirty. Now he's been borrowing my
clothes all of the time instead of washing his. He
says that wearing my clothes makes him feel closer to me,
(02:44):
but I think he wants to be me. He has
dyed his hair the same color as mine and tries
to talk like me. I love this man, but I
don't know what to do I know, I know cares
hanging into you. Don't have any questions, You don't have
any questions for him? Put it in question for yes,
(03:09):
I don't how should I handle this? She asked, Please help.
I really don't know what to tell you. I'm I'm
with Stephen this one. I don't know. I mean, the
grooming situation is one thing, because you you've got to wash,
You've you've got to bathe, You've got to shower. I
mean that is really a given. If you don't, you
(03:31):
start to stink. Come on, and you have to brush
your teeth, no matter what. Really, really you're walking around
not showering or brushing your teeth. I mean as far
as wearing your clothes and dyeing his hair like you
and wanting to be you. I don't know what's going
on there. I have not huh a question put in
(03:55):
a question. If you could say it, you can say
it in a question for him. Uh, there is cause
for concern here. Uh if I were you, Uh, something
is going on with him? I mean the talking like you.
We've never had a situation like this in the Strawberry letter.
And you know Steve and I are not doctors. Were
not clinical people. We just try to give you common
(04:17):
sense answers. So the best I can do is to
it's to tell you I don't know what to do.
Take him to a doctor. I I don't know. I mean,
is he looking for a job, is he's trying to
get a job, or is he still out of work?
Because if he were working and stuff like that, it
seems like he would get back to himself. That's all
(04:39):
I have for you. Have him look for a job
and possibly seek some therapy of some kind. Steve, you're up.
I hope you have your questions. It's a good one,
but I knowsial and you don't need an anymore. She
(05:00):
had just been so full of controversial at all. Started
when I want to see the president. It's just January
for my birthday. It just started all the raving for me.
And then we're just halfway through the year. There Rodney
Hole got marrid about joke. I told I don't know
what that was. The people in Flip just I just
(05:25):
don't even know where to start with this over here.
I go, Okay, you have some questions. I'm twenty five,
he thirty. Yeah, said it was gonna get married one day.
But then by the year ago he lost your job.
He take it pretty hard. Most people take losing their job.
Most people go there's a lot of reactions when you
(05:49):
find out you ain't gotta come in the mall. Yeah. Yeah,
and it don't be that music playing either, that little
music here in the background. Yeah, but that ain't get
fired music, all right, So he took it pretty hard.
After the first month, he wouldn't shower or brush his teeth. Well,
(06:13):
he had to go to work, he figured, says, I
ain't gotta go nowhere. I'm just at the house. I
was just going and do me with her though. Well,
but I think brob me is you kept coming home
every evening, and to get worse, I ain't think right
now if you're miss brushing your teeth for three days,
it is a build up on him. They ain't smooth
(06:36):
no more. Run your turn crossing you see. You told
him if he didn't shower, you're gonna bust the windows
in his car. Needless to say, he showered. I told
himself he need to groom himself so he can feel
(06:56):
good about himself. One week after that wet then I
came home and found him. He was wearing my heels
while he was cooking dinner? Did he just say one minute? Yes? Well,
let me ask you this question then, because I got
a pretty very question. If you came home and he
(07:19):
was wearing your shoes cooking dinner, what size is your shoes?
I can't get my big toe down in margerie shoes,
but if he had on your heels, I think that
threatened to bust that window out the car? Really, Sita,
(07:40):
what size shoot do you wear? Where your man can
wear your damn shoe? And we're gonna take it from
here when we come back, because it might be more
things going on wrong than he ain't working and he
got your partents on. Listen all right? Part two of
the Strawberry Letter. Uh. If you have any issues, please
(08:01):
email us at Steve Harvey dot com. We will try
and help you out as best we can with your
relationship issues. My boyfriend wants to be me. Let's remember this.
The title is My boyfriend wants to be me? Heat
thirty lost his job, he starts stinking, smelling up the house.
(08:23):
Wouldn't babe, wouldn't brush your teeth? She said? If you're
don'ta do somethinge but your windows out the car so
he went on that. Then something he started washing again. Well,
then told him that he needed to, you know, pick
herself up and groom himself so he can feel good
about herself. Well, the week after that, she came home
and found him wearing her heels. Why why he would
(08:46):
cooking dinner? My question is what size do you have
where your man can get his foot down and stand
down and cook. That's my question to you. See, the
reason I had to ask that question is because I
can't get my toe in Marjorie shoe back the ones
(09:10):
that come to a point. I might get my big
toe and the toe next to it in there, but
that's it. Then you said, then he was wearing your heels.
Then you thought we couldn't get worse. One night, we're
about to make love and he had your pantis on. Now,
let me tell you this right here, I ain't never
(09:30):
had my white pantis on. What if I tried to
get him on, they probably ain't gonna get up over
my knees that he didn't got your drawers up again,
he got on your pumps and your draw Well, listen
to the picture that I'm trying to paint for you.
(09:53):
He got your pennies on, and they fitting. He said
all this underwear was dirties. He got yours on. Now
he's boring my clothes all the time instead of watching
he wear everything. Nah, we're getting down with this letter.
Really about your man can wear everything? You got your
(10:17):
jeans on, got your top on. He got everything on,
got your chunk on, got your watch on. I can't
wear none of my white watches, ain't enough links in them.
He got your watch on, your glasses, got your socks on,
(10:40):
Your workout equipment away, No workout equipment. He got your
He got your bra. Wow? How wide is your back on?
Your bro He didn't die had the same color as
(11:01):
mine that. I don't get that. And he tries to
talk like me. I love this man, but I don't
know what to do. How could I handle this? Please?
That leads us back to the top of the letter.
Suthing is my boyfriend wants to beat me. Well, it
sounds like me he damn near that. Seemed to me
(11:24):
like he damned near that. But why your boyfriend wants
to be you? Because maybe he thank you him? Huh,
you ain't following me. My boyfriend wants to meet me
maybe because he thank you him. You're only man. You're
gonna bust windows. You've been threatening. Yeah, y'all only got
(11:51):
a little size on you. You got to have some
size on it. Because most men can't wait that girls shoot.
Most men came. That's true. That's most men cannot wear
that girls shoe. Most men came. And that's what it
seemed like to me. It seemed to me like he
(12:14):
damned near you because he thank you, it's damn near him.
Oh so they want to see the old cliche who
wear the pants and his family about y'all. See, you can't.
You can't get that out of that. I got all
this stand because like him, I can't go to other
(12:35):
route that cost me my career. You're ready, you're right.
So that time I spent on my vacation, he even
talked me in to me, that's your friend, that your
friends the oldest friend ain't And still he went around
(12:56):
and even suck men. That's a dog whole. I'm not
going down that other route about all that. So I've
chosen to go to see. My vacation taught me something.
What did it teach you? To see? My vacation taught me?
You gotta quit giving these people paying the sticky with
because too many haters are you We've been telling you
(13:16):
that for years. Yeah, you've been telling me what. I'm
still a comedian. I'm still trying to do my job.
But then you know when you can't even tell the
damn joking on moment right? You know here it is now,
j what you think is going on in the left? Um?
(13:38):
I think he likes being in ladies shoes and ladies dresses.
That's what he enjoys. He enjoys that. You have to see.
I know that, Jake. See I'm not gonna say that
because taking my comments, Yeah, my ask to be awesome.
(13:58):
I'll be right up there with Kim right now. No,
I'm turning because they just theyn't took an innocent thing
being in the car when somebody's not cheating. It's not cheating,
you don't know. Yeah, And then thank god the TMZ
and people like that who will put a little bit
(14:20):
behind their story, they wouldn't even print that math and
Kevin and got him got his life going on about
his big But Kevin called me after the Trump visited
to tell me how to hell it? He man, you
know your heart, He's said man, you know you're good people.
Don't worry about these people out here because I know you, man,
because you're about to You're about to say something crazy,
(14:40):
and it was right. I don't say something crazy. I
had all that going on wild, I was in federal court.
What's that about? What did that come back to you?
Because what I'm not gonna do is do what j
is that tell? He like pressing in there thing? That
is what you're gonna get me to tell my joke about. No, No,
(15:03):
my joker is gonna be about them being the same
damn side. That's what my joke. Now, you can get
mad at me if you won't. I can't. I got
a whole different damn joke about this letter. Okay, Yeah,
well that's good you should have. And I'm glad you
know where the heir you're gonna be. Yeah, and you're
teaching time or something now, because even Tommy know that's
(15:24):
what steve where he had to. And you need to
know how many seats is at the beil too. I
got it tickets of vailable all right. Speaking of the nephew,
his his new segment is coming up. It's called who
are You mad at? Now? You can call nephew Tommy
(15:46):
and tell him eight seven seven twenty nine Steve eight
seven seven twenty nine Steve, we'll be back after this.
You're listening, Steve Haring Show
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