Strawberry Letter

Dear Steve and Shirley, My fiance and I have been together for six years. He's 50 and I'm 35 and this will be the first marriage for both of us. When he proposed my intuition told me he was not ready to be married. A month ago, my fiance and I got into a big argument about his family and I didn't like his response or how he acted in front of our 3 year old daughter. So we haven't really been speak...

Dear Steve and Shirley, My wife and I have been together since 2009 and married since 2015. We have three sons and I love them all dearly. I'm not trying to sugarcoat this at all but I have to tell you about my wife. Now we've both cheated on each other from the beginning of our relationship even though she refuses to admit all that she's done. I forgive her for everything because of my wrongdoing...

Dear Steve and Shirley, I'm stuck. I've read your book Steve and I've been with my boyfriend for four years. In the four years we've bought a home and had lots of beautiful vacations together. We're under 30 years old and we have a solid relationship. He provides protects and professes his love for me. So why after four years I still don't have an engagement ring? I haven't given him my all yet be...

Dear Shirley and Uncle Steve, I am having a hard time dealing with a situation with my family. I traveled around the world, got a couple of degrees, moved away from my hometown and married the love of my life. In the last few years, my dad’s health declined and he had to retire, money got tight, and now he and my mom fight all of the time. I call my parents daily before I go to work and each day i...

Dear Steve and Shirley, I am a 49 year old female married to a 49 year old man. I have five children and five grandchildren. Here is the problem. My current husband is not the father of my children. I married this man when my children were young. So he's been in their lives for a very long time. My youngest son just graduated from high school and will be going away for college. So now my husband t...

Dear Steve and Shirley I've lost my best friend. We've been best friends for over 15 years. Thee best of friends. We were thick as thieves and nothing could keep us apart. Whenever she got in relationships she introduced me as her brother and I got along with all her boyfriends. She started dating her current boyfriend and I didn't approve of him at first because he had a reputation of being a lia...

Dear Steve and Shirley, My husband and I have been married for 11 years. My husband has three grown children from his previous marriage, two sons and a daughter. His sons are happily married but his daughter is not. My husband's ex wife constantly intrudes in our marriage and in her daughter's marriage. The daughter will not keep her mom out of her business and it upsets her husband. The ex-wife h...

Dear Steve and Shirley, I am a young single female. I recently had a conversation with a close male friend about relationships and sex. He told me that from a man's point of view a man can never fully love a woman and give his all to a relationship until they have sex. This blew my mind because my girlfriends and I are withholding sex now and we really think that we're doing the right thing by mak...

Dear Steve and Shirley, I have a testimony and I need some solid advice. In the past, my husband was a scam artist and I am an ex stripper and call girl. We both got caught up and ended up doing time and our family took care of our children. I got I got released from prison first and I started to rebuild our lives. When he got out I put him through school. After that I continued my education and n...

Dear Steve and Shirley, My girlfriend and I have been together for about a year. When I met her she had just ended a relationship with a wealthy man that was 19 years older than her. This man spoiled her with expensive gifts and he was her first sexually so she was caught up for a long time. He offered to buy her a condo if she stayed with him, but she realized that he was trying to buy her love a...

Dear Steve and Shirley, I am a recently divorced man with joint custody of my children. On the day that our divorce was final my ex-wife and I we went out for drinks and then back to her place to play a little game of hide and seek if you know what I mean. We only did that once and for the past six months we have not had sex or anything close to it. Not too long ago she told me that she had starte...

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Dear Steve and Shirley, I'm writing you for advice on a family matter. When my daughter had her first child, she and her husband asked me to move in with them to help out with the baby. I was thrilled to be there to help with my grandchild. After living with them for about five months my daughter came to me and said that her husband had been watching me move around the house. I thought she meant t...

Dear Steve and Shirley, When I met my wife five years ago she was all that I wanted and more. She was beautiful, sweet, driven, short and thick. Just how I like them. Now two kids in three years of marriage later I hardly recognize her. She has gained far too much weight. I told her I would work out with her and I went and bought exercise mats and dumbbells so we could get started. She hurt hersel...

Dear Steve and Shirley, My husband and I are now 50 years old. We have five grown sons and four grandchildren. Ten years ago my husband had a fling at work and the female was barely 20 years old. At the time, I was devastated but he swore nothing physical happened the whole situation didn't sit well with me. So one day last week I checked my husband's old phone for any proof I could find. I found...

Dear Uncle Steve and Aunt Shirley, I am a young female that graduated from high school two years ago. Yeah and I am in a sticky situation. You see after graduation I met a guy on an online app and we texted back and forth and decided to spend some time together. We ended up going on dates and messing around a lot. He is a really great person but he was not the one for me so we ended our fling. We...

Dear Steve and Shirley, My wife and I met when we were 12 years old and we got married when we were 20 years old. We've been married for 15 years and we were very happy until recently. Now I need help to save my marriage. Three years ago I cheated on my wife and got another woman pregnant. I told my wife about the affair and the baby. My wife was going to divorce me but we went to marriage counsel...

Dear Steve and Shirley, My fiancé and I have been together for six years. We like to have fun in the bedroom, which often includes a third person joining us. And yes it is always another woman. Before my fiancé met me, he had never had a threesome but I had. Now he can't get enough of them and I enjoy them even more than he does from day one. I have set all the rules for the threesomes my main and...

Dear Steve and Shirley, I've been with my husband for 19 years. Recently my younger sister spent the night at my house when she was in town. I usually only invite my sister to stay over when my husband is away on military duty. She always sleeps in my 15 year old daughter's room when she's visiting. So this was the first night that my husband was home when my sister was visiting. We were having a...

Dear Steve and Shirley, I've been married to a wonderful man for almost 30 years. He's an excellent father and provider. But over the years I've spent a lot of time alone in my marriage. At one point I was very lonely. There was a lot of love and kindness but no passion. A neighbor and I would talk occasionally and he picked up on my extreme loneliness and saw that I was vulnerable. He used it to...

Dear Steve and Shirley, My fiance and I met in college and we've been together for three years. She is perfect in every way. She has the looks a great job and when it comes to the bedroom she is on fire. But anyway here is the problem. Last weekend I took her to our usual breakfast spot and we started talking about the wedding and our guest list. I have met her mom dad siblings and grandparents an...

Dear Steve and Shirley, I'm a 38 year old female and I've been married for three years. My husband and I met 28 years ago in middle school. I love him with all of my heart and I always have. My only problem is that I'm lusting over our landlord. Whenever I think about the landlord, my body just reacts no matter where I am when I am in his presence it's just like we fit together. When I am with my...

Dear Steve and Shirley, I am a 32 year old Hispanic man and I am dating the most amazing woman. I am ready to share the rest of my life with her. She is a beautiful loving honest strong black female and our chemistry is undeniable. So here's my problem. She is a Christian and I am an atheist/non-believer. We've made our relationship work so far. Here's the problem she's a Christian and I'm an athe...

Dear Steve and Shirley, I've been in a relationship with my fiancé for three years. In the beginning everything was great but things have taken a turn for the worse. She has hit me on two different occasions and it startled me because I have never raised my hand to her even been mad enough to hit her. Lately she has been pointing out my flaws and to add insult to injury. Sex is like a foreign conc...

Dear Steve and Shirley, I've been listening for years and decided it was time for me to get some advice. I'm a young brother in my early 40s. I have a great career and two sons that are grown. I'm a bit of a homebody so I don't hang out much and I've never liked hanging out in clubs. My issue is that I'm at a point in my life where I'm ready to settle down and be with one good woman but I can't se...