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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It is time now for today's Strawberry Letter, and if
you need advice on relationships, work, sex, parenting, and more,
please submit your Strawberry letter to Steve HARVEYFM dot com
and we could be reading your letter live on the air,
just like we're gonna read this one right here, right now.
And you never know, it could be yours.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
It could be yours.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
Lady Juli's Tower with a Strawberry Letter with my good friend,
Shirley Strawberry.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
Thank you my good friend Junior's subject. I smelled like
him all day. Dear Stephen, Shirley, I've been married for
almost seventeen years to my best friend. I love him,
but I'm not in love with him. We operate as
a married couple in public and around our children, but
he does not always sleep in our bedroom with me,
and I assume it's because I don't have sex with him.
(00:46):
We stopped having sex almost two years ago because my
husband passed along an infection to me, and to this
day he claimed he wasn't messing around with anyone. After that,
I found myself a special friend for my special need,
and we had been practicing safe sex for the past
eight months. My husband commented on my change of attitude recently,
(01:07):
and he accused me of cheating, but he couldn't prove
a thing until yesterday. Our son had tryouts for a
basketball and he slipped and fell in the gym. I
was on the other side of town at my boyfriend's place.
My child called me, screaming in pain, saying that his
leg was broken, so I rushed to his school to
(01:28):
be with him. My son had also called his father,
so we got there at the same time. I followed
my husband and my son to the er so we
could get some X rays. My son ended up pulling
a muscle, but nothing was broken. As my husband pushed
our son out of the er in a wheelchair, he
told me that I smelt like I had just rolled
(01:48):
around in the hay with the man.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
Well.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
I had, but that was none of his concern. We
all went to grab Burger's, and my husband sat on
the other side of the table because he said my
boyfriend's call bothered him. I just laughed and kept enjoying
my dinner. How can he judge me after what he did?
Is he even worthy of me making up a lie?
Or should I let him wonder if I'm cheating on him. Hmm, Okay,
(02:15):
I'm not sure. I'm really not sure what you want
from Steve and I in this letter, and why your
husband brought home an infection, which of course was terrible,
and then he lied and said he wasn't messing around
with anyone. Well, how else do you get an STI
if you're not sleeping with someone else. I mean it
was over for you after that, I'm saying, and.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
You can get it from potato chips.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
Go ahead, you can get it from potato chips. A
sexually transmitted infection. Yeah, well it was over for the
wife after that, and any signs of a real marriage
were gone. I mean, you already have another man now,
and for the most part, your husband knows it. He
just wants you to admit it, and you won't. I
don't know what admitting you cheat it will do in
(03:01):
your case, because you guys, aren't trying to fix anything.
You're not trying to get help to fight and get
your real marriage back, you know, the one that you
said you once had. You're not even trying to get divorced.
I mean, you've admitted to no longer being in love
with your husband. So my question is, what are you
guys doing. I mean, you're just staying together for appearances
and for the kid's sake. You don't sleep together. So
(03:24):
where are you trying to go with this? I don't
see any sign of hope for reconciliation in this letter.
I just think it's a disrespectful marriage. It's convenient for
you guys for right now, and I wonder how long
you guys can continue this way. I mean, I don't
understand what you're doing, Steve. You know, not a sigh
(03:48):
and a tooth sucking at the same.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
Some of these letters.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
Man, I just I mean, look, you've been married for
seventeen years. Here is the whole thing to your best friend.
I love him, but I'm not in love with him.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
Marriage over, it's over. It's it's a rap.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
If you're not in love with the person that you're
married to, it's a rap. You know, I got some
partners I love. I got some brothers that I love.
I'm not in love with them. So guess what, we're
not married?
Speaker 2 (04:31):
See how that work?
Speaker 1 (04:32):
What?
Speaker 3 (04:32):
See? I'm just telling you it's really as simple as that.
Yeah's you're not in love. I don't care how good
a damn friend you are. If you're married and you're
not in love. It's a rap. It's over. We operate
(04:53):
as a married couple in public and around our children,
but he does not sleep in our bedroom with me.
Next line, I assume it's because I don't have sex
with him. Well, I be damn ain't you right? Did
a dean that a light bub ain't go off? He's
(05:17):
not in our bedroom.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
I assume.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
Because I don't have sex with him.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
Then here's the reason.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
We stopped having sex two years ago, because my husband
passed along in infection to me. And to this day
he claims he wasn't messing around with anybody. Okay, After that,
I found myself a special friend for my special needs.
Y'all are here talking about like y'all just riding around
in the wheelchairs. What the hell did you talking about?
(05:50):
I found me a special friend to take care of
my special needs.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
Y'all, Hey, what this is? You done? Got what? Somebody
to get your weig blowed back?
Speaker 1 (06:03):
You know what she means.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
You're getting your ankles hailed. Y'all in there frying bacon,
y'all in there looking for oil, sitting up in here
talking about we stopped having sex, and I found myself
(06:27):
a special friend for my special needs.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
All right, hold on, hang on to that thought.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
Thank y'all in the Olympics somewhere.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
Coming up at twenty three minutes after the hour, that
ain't what you see is we'll recap today's strawberry letter party.
We'll have part two of Steve's response the strawberry letter subject,
I smelled like him all day. We'll get back into
it right after this. You're listening Morning show, All right,
(06:56):
come on, Seve, let's recap today's strawberry letter. The subject
is I smelled like him all day.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
Yeah, Well, you've been married for seventeen years to a
man that you are no longer in love with. He's
your best friend, you love him, but you ain't in
love with him. Marriage is over. It's a rap that
it's nothing but proof. After this, and then you says,
you know, we acting like we married in public for
our children and all this here, but he does not
(07:23):
always sleep in our bedroom with me. Then she said,
I assume it's because I don't have sex with him.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
Well, you got that right.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
I assume it's because I don't have sex with him,
And y'all stop having sex. Two years ago because he
brought home and infection and swomping down. He wasn't messing
around with nobody, So now you to cut him off
for two years. I understand that. Cool. But now you
been set up here and find yourself a special friend
(07:55):
for my special needs. What you're not fitting to do
is take this left and try to get us to
feel sorry for you with all this special needs conversation,
because that ain't what it was. It ain't that type
of special needs. Y'all ain't in the damn Olympics. And
you ain't got no sticker hanging off your rear view
mirror in your car. You ain't got a rent going
(08:19):
up now, set of steps at your you ain't got
no van with no lift on it, none of that.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Something wrong with you.
Speaker 3 (08:31):
Dads. Ain't getting no damn discountt ain't you ain't getting
none of that. What you're not fitting to do, they
is trying to make us feel sad for you, talking
about you found a special friends for your special needs.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
Oh them ain't the needs. You just take you care of.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
Special friend with some special needs, Like you're just giving
money to Saint Jude's or something.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
You need to get out of here. You gonna stop
this here, even last.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
Letter, sorry for you, like you got a special friend
with some special needs, like you just run around help
and handicap people. You ain't get none of this from us.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
It's sitting up in here special needs.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
You got your leg all back on the headboard with
your toes grabbing the slots on the iron bed posts.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
That that will look like no special needs to me. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
Anyway, we've been practicing safe sex for eight months.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
Oh really, oh really?
Speaker 3 (09:43):
My husband committed on my change of attitude recently and
he accused me of cheating, but he couldn't prove it.
You are you are chi you said it in the letter.
Until yesterday. Our son had trials for basketball. He slipped
and fell in the gym. I was on the other
sid out of town to my boyfriend's house, getting my
special needs taken care of by this special man, and
(10:06):
we was not on the ramp outside at the house
because we don't really use wheelchairs. My child called me,
screaming in pain, saying his leg was broken. With his
little lying ass. You know if you break your leg
and you a boy, you can't use the phone. Do
you know that you can't use You can't use the phone.
Your leg broken. You a child, You know how bad
(10:27):
you hollered. You can't remember nobody number. You can't do
nothing with that phone. You don't want no damn phone.
You trying to pull yourself together. I have broken bone
in my body.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
You ain't You ain't huh.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
You ain't got time for nothing else. You got to
pull yourself together talking about his leg is broken. I
rushed to the school to be with him. Then he
had time to call this daddy. He was making a
whole lot of phone call with he broken ass leg.
This little boy really got hisself together. So we're both
there at the same time. I followed my husband and
son to the ear so we could get some that trade.
(11:00):
This little lion punk ass boy yours ain't deading nothing
but pull a muscle. The hell you get confused or
pull muscle with a broke leg. You done pull a
muscle that's in the back of your.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
Leg, boy, So you're mad at the sun.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
Now got a set up in here and left my
man's house. He over here frying bacon and everything. We
over here doing special needs activity for the day, trying
to earn.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
Ourselfs a sticker for our car.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
We're trying to qualify for the tag that hang on
your rear view mirror. We in here doing special needs activity,
and you done interrupted me. Now I'm sitting up in here.
You learn he ain't even.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
Broke your leg. Punk ass got a pull muscle.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
Then, as my son, that was my husband, pushed our
son out of er in a wheelchair, he told me
I smell like I had just rolled around in.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
The hay with a man. Well I had, Okay, what
is the letter for? I don't understand what he wrote?
Speaker 1 (11:51):
Right?
Speaker 2 (11:52):
Well, I had, but that was none of his concern.
You his wife? The hell you talking about y'all pushing
y'all boy out of the yard? Y'all doing that together?
Speaker 3 (12:03):
Remember how you said how y'all operate as a married
couple in public and around our children. Y'all in public
you have to yall and you around your children. Hit
dumb ass in the wheelchair then told you he broke
a leg. You could have left his ass over there,
but the ohod note, Now you got to get out
all this hay. You in it because you've been rolling
around in this hey with your special needs person. Try
to get your special needs taking care of y'all in here.
(12:25):
Y'all hart is roll around a chair. We'll roll around
and hey, wheelchair.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
But I'm sure you're gonna tell us IM sure you
air show lying there.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
We were all with the grad burgers, and my husband
sat on the other side of the table because he said,
my boyfriend cologne bother him. You all up in here
with that cheap as cologne on, probably had on some
fruit on, some high karate sitting up in here with
this old lad sitting up here with that. You got
all this, all this hosting on this damn polo you signed.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
You smell like the whole bottle with the horse on.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
It, all right. Lincoln comments on today's Strawberry Letter on
Instagram at Steve Harvey FM, and check us out on
the Strawberry Letter podcast on the Free iHeartRadio app, where
free never sounded so good. Coming up next to his
junior and sports talk. Right after this, you're listening Harvey
Morning Show.
It is time now for today's Strawberry Letter, and if
you need advice on relationships, work, sex, parenting, and more,
please submit your Strawberry letter to Steve HARVEYFM dot com
and we could be reading your letter live on the air,
just like we're gonna read this one right here, right now.
And you never know, it could be yours.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
It could be yours.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
Lady Juli's Tower with a Strawberry Letter with my good friend,
Shirley Strawberry.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
Thank you my good friend Junior's subject. I smelled like
him all day. Dear Stephen, Shirley, I've been married for
almost seventeen years to my best friend. I love him,
but I'm not in love with him. We operate as
a married couple in public and around our children, but
he does not always sleep in our bedroom with me,
and I assume it's because I don't have sex with him.
(00:46):
We stopped having sex almost two years ago because my
husband passed along an infection to me, and to this
day he claimed he wasn't messing around with anyone. After that,
I found myself a special friend for my special need,
and we had been practicing safe sex for the past
eight months. My husband commented on my change of attitude recently,
(01:07):
and he accused me of cheating, but he couldn't prove
a thing until yesterday. Our son had tryouts for a
basketball and he slipped and fell in the gym. I
was on the other side of town at my boyfriend's place.
My child called me, screaming in pain, saying that his
leg was broken, so I rushed to his school to
(01:28):
be with him. My son had also called his father,
so we got there at the same time. I followed
my husband and my son to the er so we
could get some X rays. My son ended up pulling
a muscle, but nothing was broken. As my husband pushed
our son out of the er in a wheelchair, he
told me that I smelt like I had just rolled
(01:48):
around in the hay with the man.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
Well.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
I had, but that was none of his concern. We
all went to grab Burger's, and my husband sat on
the other side of the table because he said my
boyfriend's call bothered him. I just laughed and kept enjoying
my dinner. How can he judge me after what he did?
Is he even worthy of me making up a lie?
Or should I let him wonder if I'm cheating on him. Hmm, Okay,
(02:15):
I'm not sure. I'm really not sure what you want
from Steve and I in this letter, and why your
husband brought home an infection, which of course was terrible,
and then he lied and said he wasn't messing around
with anyone. Well, how else do you get an STI
if you're not sleeping with someone else. I mean it
was over for you after that, I'm saying, and.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
You can get it from potato chips.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
Go ahead, you can get it from potato chips. A
sexually transmitted infection. Yeah, well it was over for the
wife after that, and any signs of a real marriage
were gone. I mean, you already have another man now,
and for the most part, your husband knows it. He
just wants you to admit it, and you won't. I
don't know what admitting you cheat it will do in
(03:01):
your case, because you guys, aren't trying to fix anything.
You're not trying to get help to fight and get
your real marriage back, you know, the one that you
said you once had. You're not even trying to get divorced.
I mean, you've admitted to no longer being in love
with your husband. So my question is, what are you
guys doing. I mean, you're just staying together for appearances
and for the kid's sake. You don't sleep together. So
(03:24):
where are you trying to go with this? I don't
see any sign of hope for reconciliation in this letter.
I just think it's a disrespectful marriage. It's convenient for
you guys for right now, and I wonder how long
you guys can continue this way. I mean, I don't
understand what you're doing, Steve. You know, not a sigh
(03:48):
and a tooth sucking at the same.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
Some of these letters.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
Man, I just I mean, look, you've been married for
seventeen years. Here is the whole thing to your best friend.
I love him, but I'm not in love with him.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
Marriage over, it's over. It's it's a rap.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
If you're not in love with the person that you're
married to, it's a rap. You know, I got some
partners I love. I got some brothers that I love.
I'm not in love with them. So guess what, we're
not married?
Speaker 2 (04:31):
See how that work?
Speaker 1 (04:32):
What?
Speaker 3 (04:32):
See? I'm just telling you it's really as simple as that.
Yeah's you're not in love. I don't care how good
a damn friend you are. If you're married and you're
not in love. It's a rap. It's over. We operate
(04:53):
as a married couple in public and around our children,
but he does not sleep in our bedroom with me.
Next line, I assume it's because I don't have sex
with him. Well, I be damn ain't you right? Did
a dean that a light bub ain't go off? He's
(05:17):
not in our bedroom.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
I assume.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
Because I don't have sex with him.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
Then here's the reason.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
We stopped having sex two years ago, because my husband
passed along in infection to me. And to this day
he claims he wasn't messing around with anybody. Okay, After that,
I found myself a special friend for my special needs.
Y'all are here talking about like y'all just riding around
in the wheelchairs. What the hell did you talking about?
(05:50):
I found me a special friend to take care of
my special needs.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
Y'all, Hey, what this is? You done? Got what? Somebody
to get your weig blowed back?
Speaker 1 (06:03):
You know what she means.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
You're getting your ankles hailed. Y'all in there frying bacon,
y'all in there looking for oil, sitting up in here
talking about we stopped having sex, and I found myself
(06:27):
a special friend for my special needs.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
All right, hold on, hang on to that thought.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
Thank y'all in the Olympics somewhere.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
Coming up at twenty three minutes after the hour, that
ain't what you see is we'll recap today's strawberry letter party.
We'll have part two of Steve's response the strawberry letter subject,
I smelled like him all day. We'll get back into
it right after this. You're listening Morning show, All right,
(06:56):
come on, Seve, let's recap today's strawberry letter. The subject
is I smelled like him all day.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
Yeah, Well, you've been married for seventeen years to a
man that you are no longer in love with. He's
your best friend, you love him, but you ain't in
love with him. Marriage is over. It's a rap that
it's nothing but proof. After this, and then you says,
you know, we acting like we married in public for
our children and all this here, but he does not
(07:23):
always sleep in our bedroom with me. Then she said,
I assume it's because I don't have sex with him.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
Well, you got that right.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
I assume it's because I don't have sex with him,
And y'all stop having sex. Two years ago because he
brought home and infection and swomping down. He wasn't messing
around with nobody, So now you to cut him off
for two years. I understand that. Cool. But now you
been set up here and find yourself a special friend
(07:55):
for my special needs. What you're not fitting to do
is take this left and try to get us to
feel sorry for you with all this special needs conversation,
because that ain't what it was. It ain't that type
of special needs. Y'all ain't in the damn Olympics. And
you ain't got no sticker hanging off your rear view
mirror in your car. You ain't got a rent going
(08:19):
up now, set of steps at your you ain't got
no van with no lift on it, none of that.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Something wrong with you.
Speaker 3 (08:31):
Dads. Ain't getting no damn discountt ain't you ain't getting
none of that. What you're not fitting to do, they
is trying to make us feel sad for you, talking
about you found a special friends for your special needs.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
Oh them ain't the needs. You just take you care of.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
Special friend with some special needs, Like you're just giving
money to Saint Jude's or something.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
You need to get out of here. You gonna stop
this here, even last.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
Letter, sorry for you, like you got a special friend
with some special needs, like you just run around help
and handicap people. You ain't get none of this from us.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
It's sitting up in here special needs.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
You got your leg all back on the headboard with
your toes grabbing the slots on the iron bed posts.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
That that will look like no special needs to me. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
Anyway, we've been practicing safe sex for eight months.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
Oh really, oh really?
Speaker 3 (09:43):
My husband committed on my change of attitude recently and
he accused me of cheating, but he couldn't prove it.
You are you are chi you said it in the letter.
Until yesterday. Our son had trials for basketball. He slipped
and fell in the gym. I was on the other
sid out of town to my boyfriend's house, getting my
special needs taken care of by this special man, and
(10:06):
we was not on the ramp outside at the house
because we don't really use wheelchairs. My child called me,
screaming in pain, saying his leg was broken. With his
little lying ass. You know if you break your leg
and you a boy, you can't use the phone. Do
you know that you can't use You can't use the phone.
Your leg broken. You a child, You know how bad
(10:27):
you hollered. You can't remember nobody number. You can't do
nothing with that phone. You don't want no damn phone.
You trying to pull yourself together. I have broken bone
in my body.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
You ain't You ain't huh.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
You ain't got time for nothing else. You got to
pull yourself together talking about his leg is broken. I
rushed to the school to be with him. Then he
had time to call this daddy. He was making a
whole lot of phone call with he broken ass leg.
This little boy really got hisself together. So we're both
there at the same time. I followed my husband and
son to the ear so we could get some that trade.
(11:00):
This little lion punk ass boy yours ain't deading nothing
but pull a muscle. The hell you get confused or
pull muscle with a broke leg. You done pull a
muscle that's in the back of your.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
Leg, boy, So you're mad at the sun.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
Now got a set up in here and left my
man's house. He over here frying bacon and everything. We
over here doing special needs activity for the day, trying
to earn.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
Ourselfs a sticker for our car.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
We're trying to qualify for the tag that hang on
your rear view mirror. We in here doing special needs activity,
and you done interrupted me. Now I'm sitting up in here.
You learn he ain't even.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
Broke your leg. Punk ass got a pull muscle.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
Then, as my son, that was my husband, pushed our
son out of er in a wheelchair, he told me
I smell like I had just rolled around in.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
The hay with a man. Well I had, Okay, what
is the letter for? I don't understand what he wrote?
Speaker 1 (11:51):
Right?
Speaker 2 (11:52):
Well, I had, but that was none of his concern.
You his wife? The hell you talking about y'all pushing
y'all boy out of the yard? Y'all doing that together?
Speaker 3 (12:03):
Remember how you said how y'all operate as a married
couple in public and around our children. Y'all in public
you have to yall and you around your children. Hit
dumb ass in the wheelchair then told you he broke
a leg. You could have left his ass over there,
but the ohod note, Now you got to get out
all this hay. You in it because you've been rolling
around in this hey with your special needs person. Try
to get your special needs taking care of y'all in here.
(12:25):
Y'all hart is roll around a chair. We'll roll around
and hey, wheelchair.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
But I'm sure you're gonna tell us IM sure you
air show lying there.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
We were all with the grad burgers, and my husband
sat on the other side of the table because he said,
my boyfriend cologne bother him. You all up in here
with that cheap as cologne on, probably had on some
fruit on, some high karate sitting up in here with
this old lad sitting up here with that. You got
all this, all this hosting on this damn polo you signed.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
You smell like the whole bottle with the horse on.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
It, all right. Lincoln comments on today's Strawberry Letter on
Instagram at Steve Harvey FM, and check us out on
the Strawberry Letter podcast on the Free iHeartRadio app, where
free never sounded so good. Coming up next to his
junior and sports talk. Right after this, you're listening Harvey
Morning Show.
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Therapy Gecko
An unlicensed lizard psychologist travels the universe talking to strangers about absolutely nothing. TO CALL THE GECKO: follow me on https://www.twitch.tv/lyleforever to get a notification for when I am taking calls. I am usually live Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays but lately a lot of other times too. I am a gecko.