Strawberry Letter

Dear Steve and Shirley, I'm thirty two years old and single because I will not tolerate a drunk living in my house. My ex and I got into a big argument because for the past two years he's been drunk when we are intimate and whenever I want him to be on his best behavior, his Hennessy is like liquid confidence, and he has been sneaking it in on me. I don't drink like that anymore. Back when we firs...

Dear Steve and Shirley, I am dating a cheater and he just asked me to marry him, and I was thinking of saying yes, but then one of his side chick's pressed charges against me. In November I found my man on the side of a building in his car, naked from the waist down, and a woman was running across the parking lot away from his car because she saw me pulling up. I fired a warning shot with an air g...

Dear Steve and Shirley, I was married for four short years and my ex husband and I are still really good friends, but we can't seem to get along well enough to live together. I moved to a nearby city to start over so I wouldn't have to run into him all the time. As soon as I moved and got a job transfer, I started dating a guy at work. I've been seeing him for a little over a year, and we have a l...

Dear Steve and Shirley, I'm thirty nine years old and my husband is forty two. I stopped working a nine to five when my tax business took off two years ago. I run a small office space and I offer debt relief services after tax season. In my mind, my husband never expected me to do so well and make so much money. He started hating on me early on, and he was negative about every advancement I made i...

Dear Steve and Shirley, My husband of fourteen years must be losing his mind because he cheated on me once and I took him back. So he's got to be crazy to do it again at this stage of our lives. We got our marriage back on track after his affair, and I haven't. I hadn't suspected anything else was going on until November. He started going to bed early and getting up before I got up, so we couldn't...

Dear Steve and Shirley, I'm a teacher and I cater events and I do weekly meal prep for three people. My husband gets to feast on the leftovers, and he loves my cooking. He also loves my cookie. I am a well rounded wife and I provide my husband with good food and good loving. Wherever he wants it, he gets it, and as soon as we're done he wants a full meal. That's fine and dandy, but it's a problem...

Dear Steve and Shirley, I caught my husband on the phone with a female reminiscing about the sex they had earlier that day. I tried to control my laughter so he wouldn't hear me. I was cracking up inside because the girl was talking about how he put it down and it was the best she had in a long time. She sounded young, so I wondered how many men she'd been with. I was very relieved to hear that th...

Dear Steve and Shirley, I'm thirty eight years old and I've been with the same man for five years and he's not focused on marriage or taking our relationship further, but he won't let me go. He accuses me of seeking attention from other men because of the way I dress and I see that as him not trusting me. He's so paranoid all the time, so I reassure him that I'm not up to no good when I'm hanging...

Dear Steve and Shirley, I have been married for eleven years and can honestly say that I trusted my wife and loved her unconditionally, but now I'm questioning our commitment because she lied and withheld information. The week before Christmas, she and her best friend went to Orlando to do some Christmas shopping and she transferred thousands of dollars to her personal account, like six thousand d...

Dear Steve and Shirley, I’m 34 years old and my significant other is 39 and we’ve been together for 3 years. I call him my significant other because he has yet to define our relationship. We started as friends, just like most couples do and as we got closer, he told me that he didn’t want anything serious but he enjoyed spending time with me. We started having sex a month after we met and at that...

Dear Steve and Shirley, I am an older married woman and this is my second marriage. When I met my husband, he was extremely handsome and generous. We connected spiritually and he joined my church. We didn’t court for long and he said he knew I was his soulmate the minute we met. I knew things could be going too fast because I’m his third wife, but I felt the same connection to him so I agreed to m...

Dear Steve and Shirley, My boyfriend and I have been dating for about 5 months and he’s the best man I’ve ever been with and he treats me really good. There’s a situation that I’m dealing with and my man doesn’t understand why it’s bothering me. When we first met, he had just gotten a divorce. I mean it was literally finalized the day before I met him. Because it was a quick divorce, he was still...

Dear Steve and Shirley, I am a 27 year old man and I have a best friend and we've been super tight for years. We have been thru all the good and bad girlfriends together and now that he’s married, I want to tell him so bad that his wife is too much. She’s too much of everything. She’s tall, thick, wears big hair, big lashes and her nails and toe nails are very long..................... See omnystu...

Dear Steve and Shirley, I am having a major problem. My fiancé and I have been together for almost 2 years. She is 37 and I am 29. In the early stages, we use to throw down in the bedroom! I'm talking about doing it everywhere like 5 times a week and multiple sessions at a time, to the point where we ended up with bruises or bite marks. Her hair could never stay done back then. But lately, I can b...

Dear Steve and Shirley, I am a 48 year old single, educated and professional woman that has never been married. I have dated 3 guys in the last 8 years and decided to give it a rest until recently when I met a very nice man that works with my aunt. We talked a few weeks over the phone before we met. Then he called me one day and said he’d been in a bad car accident and his face hit his steering wh...

Dear Steve and Shirley, I'm a 32 year old single man and I started a sexual relationship with a female that hangs out with me and my boys. She’s like one of the boys and we party together, work out together and she travels with us on our annual guys’ trip. She is a good friend and we respect her and her sexual preference. We’ve never talked about her love life, but I assumed she never dated a man...

Dear Steve and Shirley, My husband and I are in our late 30s and we’ve been together for almost 20 years. We have 4 children and we always had a robust sex life until 2 years ago when everything changed. My husband gradually lost interest in sex and whenever we’d try, he would stop in the middle of it and tell me he was tired. I had no idea what was wrong with him and I started to think that he wa...

Dear Steve and Shirley, I’ve been kicked out of my church and I need some advice. I attended a very messy church and if you did not do things the way the pastor thought you should, he would call you out. I have had a few run-ins with him over stuff I post on my personal Facebook page. I told him that I can post what I want on my page and it has nothing to do with him or the church. I’m sure the re...

Dear Steve and Shirley, I have been in a relationship for 4 years and my boyfriend and I live 3 hours apart. We’ve always been in a long-distance relationship and I thought everything was fine, until recently. He started talking about marriage after we dated 2 years and he said he would gladly move to Philly to be with me. I got all excited about marriage and I started preparing myself emotionally...

Dear Steve and Shirley, about 2 years ago I messed around with my sister’s husband after a drunken night out. I made him swear that nothing would ever happen between us again. We managed to stay away from each other but he would text me often, begging for just one more night with me. He would tell me how sexy I am and I’m the best he’s ever had and he’s with the wrong sister and all of that..........

Dear Steve and Shirley, I'm on my second marriage and there's an issue in my marriage. My husband was married for 18 years and he's got two daughters and joint custody of them. I have a daughter that lives with us. We've blended the family nicely and his daughters are sweet to my daughter, but they like to remind her that their father is not her father. My husband is not good at setting boundaries...

Dear Steve and Shirley, I’m a 42 year old single mother of a son that is 20 years old. My son’s girlfriend just had a baby that is fair skinned and they both are chocolate. This girl is 21 and a dancer at a bar across town. She says she’s not a stripper but that’s all she is. My son is afraid to ask this girl for a paternity test, so I did. When my son went to visit the baby, she jumped on him and...

Dear Steve and Shirley, I’ve been married for 14 years and I have a busy schedule as a high school basketball coach. After years of marriage, my wife still doesn’t get how stressed I am around this time of year and she had been pressuring me to buy a Christmas tree and have it up by December 1st. I missed her deadline cause of my schedule.........................................   See omnystudio.c...

Dear Steve and Shirley, I'm in a long distance relationship with a man that my daughter hooked me up with. He's a bodybuilder, and my daughter met him at her gym. She said, "She was looking in the mirror working out when he came and stood in front of her to see himself in the mirror." She said, "other than being vain, he's extremely quiet and nerdy." He and I talked a lot in the beginning, and it...

Dear Steve and Shirley, I'm in love with another man, and I just need to make it through the holidays with my current boyfriend so I can dump him and get with the new guy, but, I need your advice before I let a sure thing go and move on to a fairy tale lover. I don't want to leave my current boyfriend just yet, because he is getting my brakes fixed on my car and he's getting me a bracelet that I w...