Strawberry Letter

Dear Steve and Shirley, my husband and I are 27 years old and newly married. We’ve been together for a total of seven years and we waited until we got married to have sex. I should’ve seen that as a red flag, but I didn’t. We are die-hard Christians, so I thought he was just being obedient. He never pressured me for sex and there were nights I thought I was going to lose my mind,...

Dear Steve and Shirley, I’m a 47 year old man and I’m married to a 42 year old woman that I’ve known for 12 years. We got married after we’d been apart for about 5 years. I didn’t want to let her go again, so I rushed in. Before we got back together, I dated a great businesswoman that was the total package. She was a great cook and she held it down as a small business...

Dear Steve and Shirley, I’m a 37 year old divorced woman and I met a man online that I really got a good feeling about. We talked on the phone for a week and then we started doing video calls so we could see each other. I’m very shy so this was an ideal way for me to meet someone and get to know them. My ex-husband was emotionally abusive and he cheated on me twice........................

Dear Steve and Shirley, I’m a 38 year old married woman and my husband is 34. We’ve been married for 4 years and we’re getting our first house built, so I’ve had to put my husband on a budget to make sure we can afford to furnish our new house. He is the one that is always shopping and buying gadgets for the house................. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy inf...

Dear Steve and Shirley, I’m close friends with a co-worker that is being mislead by religion. She’s 32 years old and single, but she acts like a 16 year old ditzy girl all of a sudden. She has to check in with one of her 3 spiritual advisors when she gets to the office and when she’s heading home. She usually talks to one of them on the phone while she’s eating her lunch to...

Dear Steve and Shirley, you might call me a bitter baby mama or a scorned ex-girlfriend, but that’s fine by me, as long as you give me some advice on what to do. I have some information about my ex-boyfriend’s new fiancé. My ex and I dated for 7 years and have a daughter together. We met in law school, after he was assigned to my study group. He was a scrawny nerd with no swagge...

Dear Steve and Shirley, I’m not sure if I have a man or not, after I disappointed him recently. When I first met him, he pursued me for months. I was going through a crazy divorce and I didn’t need to complicate my life any further, but I enjoyed his friendship. We had long phone conversations or we would sit in his car and talk for hours. He was patient and understanding and for the f...

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Dear Steve and Shirley, I’m a life coach and motivational speaker so I travel a lot and my husband keeps our 2 year old twins. I was gone for a conference last week and I was unable to speak with my husband while I was gone. He said one of the twins threw his cell phone in the pool and he didn’t have a babysitter to keep the boys while he spent the day in the Apple Store..................

Dear Steve and Shirley, I’ve been married for 27 years to a man that made a beautiful life for me and our 4 children. He’s been to every school program, graduation, medical appointment and each child’s extra-curricular activities. He’s showered me with gifts on special occasions and on ordinary days of the week. This is why I can’t believe what I have found out recent...

  Dear Steve and Shirley, I’m married to mister-fix-it-all, the friendly handyman that runs to help single women when something goes wrong in their home. I hope he can fix this marriage because I’m at the end of my rope with him. He runs a landscaping business and he has awesome employees that work for him and execute his vision.......................... See omnystudio.com/listene...

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Dear Steve and Shirley, I’m married to a man that is always about to explode about something. He’s easily irritated and likes to gripe about things instead of finding solutions to his issues. I will admit that most of the time, he’s right and others are wrong, but the way he handles things drives me cray cray. He’s been on the same job for 14 years and he gets great bonuses...

Dear Steve and Shirley, I’m a 44 year single woman and I’m in a long-distance relationship with a man that lives with two females. They have all been friends for years so he’s allowed them to stay with him after they got divorced. The first woman moved in about 4 months ago and she’s not even working and claims she’s very depressed, so she lies around the house all da...

Dear Steve and Shirley, I’m a 30 year old engaged woman. I met my fiancé while in the miliary and we hung out for 2 years before I had sex with him. He had a girlfriend at the time and I was having fun being open, sexually. I shared my sex stories with my fiancé, who was my good friend at the time. He’d been begging to sleep with me, so I finally did it and I allowed him...

Dear Steve and Shirley, I’m a 51 year old married woman and my husband and I have 1 child. We’re separated for a while because he admitted that he had an emotional affair with a woman he met in the airport. I saw text messages between my husband and the woman. She was saved in his phone as “Counselor” because he told me that he confided in her and she was easy to talk to......

Dear Steve and Shirley, I’m a single mother of an honor student that got a full ride scholarship to a predominantly white college in the northeast. We’re southerners and he was raised with southern manners. He moved into the dorms and found out he had a black roommate and he was excited. His roommate is a northeasterner and he is a bit rough around the edges...............................

Dear Steve and Shirley, I’ve been dating a man for 4 years and I asked him to marry me recently because time is of the essence and I want to have a baby. When we met, he told me that I would be his wife. I took it to heart and I overlooked a lot of stuff to make our relationship work. I usually wouldn’t date an overweight man. I definitely wouldn’t date a man with halitosis.........

Dear Steve and Shirley, I’m a wife, mother and businesswoman. I have known my husband for 13 years and we’ve been married for 10 years. In the beginning, he was the popular one and I was the wallflower. He would walk into a room and everyone was dying to talk to him. Now that the tables have turned, he’s become messy and he starts mess in our family and amongst his friends..........

Dear Steve and Shirley,  I'm a 44 year old man and my wife and I are legally separated and I am facing legal charges because of her.  We were married for three years and we have a new born son that I am not sure is my son but he definitely could have my blood line.  My brother could be the father of my son.  A year after we got married he came home from the military and he stay...

Dear Steve and Shirley, I’ve been married for almost two months and a few days after we said ‘I do,’ my life changed. We met at church and we were friends first and then we started dating. One thing we said we’d never do, was talk about our past relationships in detail and we never have, until after our wedding. Early on the morning of our wedding, my ex-girl from 12 years...

  Dear Steve and Shirley, I’m too old to be playing games with my husband. He’s 60 and I’m 58 years old. He’s a coach and loves to line dance so he’s usually at a game or down at the lounge for a dance. I used to dance with him but I injured my knee, so I get to enjoy my quiet time when he’s gone because he’s a hand full. He just started being a jokes...

  Dear Steve and Shirley, I’m a 29 year old woman and my fiancé is 30. We met at a house party four years ago and we got engaged a few weeks ago. We started out as friends for a while because of his height… He is shorter than the men I used to date. I loved his personality and that’s what got me hooked on him. Whenever we are together, everyone always says we’r...

Dear Steve and Shirley, I am a 47 year old married woman and we have a four bedroom house.  I have a two children from a previous relationship and my husband has a grown son by his ex-wife.  His parents are living with us temporarily because his son has a baby and they want to be here for their great-grand child.  My mom lives with us too...,................. See omnystudio.com/list...

Dear Steve and Shirley, I have been married for nine years and I have been tapping my husband's phone and I’ve found out about his three-year international love affair. He is from Zambia and he came to Texas eleven years ago. One night we were tipsy and we opened up about a lot of stuff from our past. He told me about the one that got away................................ See omnystudio.com/l...