Sherri Shepherd says she’s met a new man, but she’s cautious. He’s both a cook and a supervisor for an airline. Shepherd says he’s handsome, polite and personable and he invited her to his family’s house for a New Orleans style cookout. But there’s a problem – he’s only 28 years old. Shepherd, as you may know is in her 40’s.
“Someone made the comment that my uterus is older than him,” she jokes. “That hurt me so badly. What if I fall asleep on the couch? It’s not that I’m old its that my blood sugar went crazy. Now I’ve got to tell him I’ve got diabetes and they’re going to be ‘she’s got that old people disease.’ Then as soon as he goes to the bathroom, his mama gonna be like ‘We were in English class together. What you want with my son?’
Has she, uh, hooked up with him yet? No. But Sherri’s TJMS advisors feel that dating a man who can fly anywhere at any time might be a problem.
Sherri says she feel insecure walking down the street with a man.
“I feel like when we walk down the street I’m paranoid. I feel like women are like ‘What you doin’ with that baby?’
So the jury is out so far on this young man and Sherri. Tom advice is that just like a salary cap in the NBA, there is an age cap in dating. And Sherri is advised to forget any wedding projections. The age cap, according to Tom, is that the combined ages in bed can’t be more than 100.
“That’s what got me into trouble. I project too far into the future. My one-night stands last five years too long,” Sherri says.
So if you see Shepherd out with a younger man, it just might be her new boo thang.
HOT BUTTON QUESTION #1:
A teacher took her middle and high school students to a sex shop to explain sex education. A listener believes that that was a good idea, as she thinks young people should be empowered with information. She wants to know when Shepherd thinks is the right time to explain sex to young people.
“That’s the last thing 11, 12 and 13-year-olds need to be seeing. Why couldn’t the person from the sex store come to the school? And did they get permission? That’s the kind of stuff I want to talk to my son about. I don’t want him buying the same stuff I got in my nightstand drawers? That teacher wanted to buy something for herself. Really? You’re going to take kids to a crack house to teach them about drugs? I’m not for that. I can’t even say on the air the names of the kind of stuff they have laying around.”
HOT BUTTON QUESTION #2
Adrian Peterson has returned to the Minnesota Vikings after his conviction on child abuse charges. Shepherd says that while she doesn’t believe all corporal punishment is unwarranted his treatment of his young son is child abuse in her view.
“I think we are forgetting how he was punished. Each situation is different. But I don’t like people in my home telling me how I can discipline my son. That’s a slippery slope. But then you have people like Adrian Peterson whose child had bruises on his scrotum. I think he needs to find another way. That doesn’t work. But when we grew up, we got whippings all the time. And I turned out crazy. But I made a nice career out of it.
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