Strawberry Letter

Dear Steve and Shirley, I'm a 28 year old woman and I recently got engaged to a man who's almost perfect. We're on the come up and have promising careers and our life plans are laid out. We want the same things, but there's one issue: He hates my mother. I admit she was a little tough on him when they first met, but she only had my best interests at heart. She asked him a lot about his background and ambitions and he took it as criticism.................... Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dear Steve and Shirley, I am a 29 year old single female and I am in love with a man that I can’t have. We started out as friends ten years ago and one thing led to another and we made love. I must have the magic touch because he was stuck like glue to me after that. I moved to another city and before I left, he asked if I would be his girlfriend. He came to visit me every weekend so I never in a million years would think he was cheating on me............... Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dear Steve and Shirley, I am a 50 year old married man and my wife and I have been married for 11 years. When we got married, I was working on my doctorated degree and I worked full time and struggled to take care of her and our newborn child. She decided to start school herself after having our second child. She got her master’s degree in 2019 and I expected her to apply for a job but instead, she decided to get a doctorate degree...................... Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dear Steve and Shirley, I am 34 years old and I’ve been dating a sexy, chocolate man for four years. We have a very active sex life and during the lockdown we started spicing things up and filming our exploits around the house. He’s very kinky and likes it when I dominate him and tie him up. We have a three year old son and because of the lockdown, my mother hasn’t been able to see him for almost a year. She told me no matter what my son does, she wants pictures or videos because she misses him so much.................. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dear Steve and Shirley, I am 34 years old and I was dating a guy that’s 32 years old and we broke up because he said I am not a team player. A week ago, he had to put his car in the shop and he asked if I could pick him up from the repair shop. I went by to get him and he said his car would be ready in a week. I had planned to drop him off at home and go to dinner with my co-worker. I got to his house and went in to use the bathroom. I noticed he was in his closet and he had a suitcase on his bed............... Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dear Steve and Shirley, I’m a 33 year old married woman and my husband and I had our first child 6 months ago. My husband is a musician and he’s back to traveling a lot, so he suggested that we hire a nanny. I welcomed the help and when my son was 2 weeks old, we hired a 26 year old girl that had just moved to the US from Belize. She is beautiful inside and out and she has a big family so she’s been helping raise children since she was 12 years old.............. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dear Steve and Shirley, I’m a 51 year old man and I have a wife but I haven’t lived with her in 4 years. It’s a long story but I’ll try to make it brief. Four years ago, my cousin had a bad divorce and he needed somewhere to stay, so my wife and I let him rent one side of a duplex we own. I made him promise to be respectful to my older tenant that shared the duplex with him because she’s a Christian woman that loves peace and quiet................ Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dear Steve and Shirley, I’m a 36 year old male and I misjudged my fiancé. I met her on social media and we had a long-distance relationship for five months. When I first visited her, I should have known better than to pursue her. She’s 32 years old and lives with her mom, her 3 children, her 2 sisters and 2 nieces. But she was always well put-together and she had her own tax business, so I gave it a chance..................... Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dear Steve and Shirley, I was a late bloomer and did not have a lot of dating experience until I was in my early twenties when I got braces and lost a little weight. Men loved it and would take advantage of me. I thought I had life figured out by the time I was twenty eight years old and I met the man I wanted to spend the rest of my life with.................. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dear Steve and Shirley, In 2017 I met a handsome man at a nail salon. He stared at me the entire time so I gave him my card as I left. He called and invited me to his apartment for dinner and we have been together since that night. He’s a big flirt and a bit too outgoing and it’s always bothered me. Two years ago, I started checking his phone and he was always talking to different women. Whenever I called him a flirt, he would say he’s a people person. He works long hours and I don’t get to see him every day so that bothers me too................. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dear Steve and Shirley, I’m a 27 year old single man and I would love to stop sneaking around with the love of my life. I have been friends with my secret lover for 20 years and our parents are best friends. Our families did everything together for over 20 years but they had no idea about our secret romance. She and I have been best friends since we were 7. By the time we turned 13, she was blossoming into a woman and I liked it................ Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dear Steve and Shirley, I’m a 38 year old single mother and I’m in a crazy situation with my exes. I was married eight years to a man that cheated on me multiple times. The first time was right after I’d had our first child. I forgave him and we moved on with life. Three years later, I got pregnant again and he started acting out again. I was in labor when I found out he cheated the second time. He fell asleep and his phone rang, so I answered it and the lady told me everything................ Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dear Steve and Shirley, I am a single mother of two children and I had my first child when I was 16 years old. My oldest daughter is 28 years old now and my youngest is 26. As my daughters grew up, I had a lot of different men around them before I settled down with a man that was in prison. I made lots of bad choices and did things I regret, all for this man. When he was released from jail, I let him move in with us and he brought the criminal element in my home and showed my girls how to hustle and be street smart.................... Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dear Steve and Shirley, I’m dating an awesome guy and he treats me very well. Anything I want or need, he supplies for me. He’s a gentleman and our sex life is great. There’s just one problem... He has a bad habit of looking at other women’s butts. We could be on a date and he will stare at another woman’s butt as she’s standing there. If she’s walking away, he follows her with his eyes. We may be hugged up, having dinner, grocery shopping or driving down a street, he does not care................. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dear Steve and Shirley, I am a 36 year old man and my wife and I split up almost 2 years ago. She moved on and is dating someone she met at church. She just had a baby a month ago and she kept it from me for 2 weeks. I found out after my pops told me. He said she sent him pictures of her infant daughter and my sister went to visit the baby a few days ago. My dad said my sister’s kids are in love with the baby already and she’s the cutest little thing ever..................... Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dear Steve and Shirley, I’m a 31 year old single female and I met a really good man on a dating app. We’re from the same city and we know a lot of the same people. We dated for 3 months and he revealed to me that he went to college with my ex-boyfriend and didn’t want to run me off by telling me that up front. I was cool with it but my ex-boyfriend wasn’t and when he found out, he called to tell me his friends were off-limits................... Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dear Steve and Shirley, I’m a 28 year old woman that just eloped with the love of my life. We dated for 7 years and we did not want to waste money on a big wedding, so we eloped and had a nice ceremony. I also wanted to elope so my husband’s mom wouldn’t be all in the mix trying to tell us what to do. She’s the reason that I waited so long to get married. She’s a meddler and gossiper and it’s not really her fault, because my husband tells her everything I do................ Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dear Steve and Shirley, I am in my late thirties and I’m married to an older man. We dated for a short period of time and he moved in with me before we got married 4 months ago. My home is in a cozy, close-knit community and one of my neighbors recognized my husband and couldn’t wait to come give me some gossip on him. She said my husband was messing around with her aunt a few months before he met me and she thinks he’s been seeing her again since we got married.................. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dear Steve and Shirley, I have been dating a man for 8 years and he proposed last month. Shortly after we met, he found out about a 2 year old daughter by a woman he had a one-night stand with. The child’s mother was messing with 2 guys so of course he took a paternity test. I drove him back and forth to visit his child, which was over 3 hours away. I was friendly with the child’s mother and his daughter and I became besties................. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dear Steve and Shirley, I am a 34 year old male and my fiance is 31 years old. Our wedding is planned for this November but I may have to call it off. The problem started over a direct message I got on Instagram from a female I used to have sex with, but, we never dated. Her message was, "Hey, it's been a minute.................... Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dear Steve and Shirley, I am a 37 year old single mom and I have been divorced since my child was three years old. My ex-husband did not contribute financially to me and our daughter in the years past because he had some health issues which kept him from working for a long period of time and he ended up moving in with his dad...................... Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dear Steve and Shirley, I am a 28 year-old professional woman, living with my 33 year old boyfriend. We’ve been dating for almost 2 years and we’ve had a lot of ups and downs because he doesn’t have a lot of respect for women. He thinks women aren’t loyal and women only date men with money and trade up if a flashier, richer guy comes along. We’ve broken up a few times over his insecurity and each time, he begs me back............... Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dear Steve and Shirley, I need your help! My husband’s mother is separated from her husband and she’s staying with us temporarily while she works out her marital issues. Meanwhile, she’s been up late at night entertaining a younger man. My husband has seen it with his own eyes, but he doesn’t know how to confront her about it. My husband said we need to focus on getting her back with her husband so she can leave our home................................ Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dear Steve and Shirley, my best friend worked as a bartender at a popular restaurant and she introduced me to the new manager of the restaurant recently. He’s middle aged, handsome, tall and he has a nice beard. I was hooked on him because of how well he carried himself and I’ve always been attracted to older men. This restaurant has the best Sunday brunch and I’m always there, with my bottomless mimosas and a few of my other girlfriends...................... Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dear Steve and Shirley, I am a 53 year old man and I have been married for going on 25 years. My wife and I use to have an active sex life, but for the past few years the magic has been happening less and less and now we do it once or twice a year. I’ve talked to her about it but she always seems to make up excuses. The one I hear the most is that she’s not in the mood because I’ve made her mad about something............... Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dear Steve and Shirley, I’ve been dating an amazing guy for two years and I feel like I have finally found my future husband. He is great with my kids and my family loves him. I couldn’t have asked for a better man to enter my life, but there’s just problem. It’s his ex-girlfriend that won’t go away. He was honest about a crazy ex that he had a bad breakup with and he’s been trying to end all of the communication with her, but she seems to be slow and does not understand when he says to leave him alone................. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dear Steve and Shirley, I love my husband to death although he and I are different in a lot of ways. They say opposites attract and we are living proof of that. He’s very successful and very frugal to the point that he won’t shop for himself so I have to do it. When I met him, I started shopping with him and for him and he always complained about prices. He’s also a practical man so he likes to have the newest gadgets around the house for repairs and home improvement so he doesn’t have to hire anyone to do it.................... Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dear Steve and Shirley, I’m 36 years old and recently divorced. I met a guy 8 months ago and he just got divorced too. We bonded over our divorce dilemmas and he was open and honest about his breakup. He told me that he was controlling and they had a rough marriage because she liked to fight him and throw stuff at him. He told me that he had to restrain her a lot, but he never laid a finger on her. He told me that he even took a domestic violence class to try to fix his marriage................ Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dear Steve and Shirley, I’m 28 years old and I met a great man a year ago and things progressed quickly in our relationship and it seemed like he was the one. I waited till the 3rd date to have sex with him and it was all of that and more. He’s an amateur boxer and I started going to see him practice and I would join some of his workouts. He was definitely an Alpha male and I felt secure in his arms. After 6 months of dating, he told me that it’s time for us to move in together..................... Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dear Steve and Shirley, I’m a 29 year old hard working mother of 2 and I’ve been engaged for almost a year. I won’t set a date with this man because he’s not the man I thought he was. My fiancé is for the streets and he’s disrespectful with it. When we first started dating 3 years ago, I developed a great relationship with his mom and sisters but recently they take up for him when he’s messing around on me.............. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Martell Holt, reality TV star of Love and Marriage Huntsville, on the OWN Network joins us LIVE. Martell is here to get advice on his very public scandal involving infidelity and an impending divorce. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dear Steve and Shirley, I am in a struggle right now and I need a little advice for a big problem. I have a male friend that I’ve known since 1st grade and we’re almost 40 now. I’m divorced and dated a lot of men after my divorce. One day recently, I had a revelation that my soulmate is someone I have known all of my life. My good male friend and I hang out all of the time, but he’s not who I had in mind if I were to date someone I’ve known a long time............... Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dear Steve and Shirley, I’ve been asked to stand with my friend in his wedding. I’m a female, so I can’t be a groomsman but I’ll be at his side at the wedding. Why am I not a bridesmaid, you ask? The future wife is controlling and she doesn’t want him to keep any of his female friends. My friend and I are so close that he officiated my wedding and now he and my husband are the best of friends. I’ve had mixed feelings from the beginning about this wedding so it’s no secret that I don’t think it will last........................ Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dear Steve and Shirley, My fiance and I have been together for a while but we don't live in the same city so we do everything we can to keep the spice in our relationship. We send flirty texts and explicit pictures and when we're together it is on and poppin'. The texts and pictures we send are so raunchy, risque and vulgar that a pornstar would blush. We can't help it.................. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dear Steve and Shirley, I am a 44 year old married woman and we have new neighbors across the street. They moved in during the pandemic, so we see them in passing, but we haven’t formally met them. Two Saturdays ago, I was upstairs reading and resting. Our bedroom is on the front of the house and I had the windows raised so I could feel the breeze. I kept hearing noises like there was a wounded animal close by, so I asked my husband to check the front yard.............. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dear Steve and Shirley, I’ve been married 2 years to a man that is my everything. Things were great for the past 2 years but now the marriage may be over. I found out that I’m married to a prostitute! A week ago, my husband and I went to purchase two new tires for my car. My husband claimed he was testing out the new tires and he sped out of the parking lot and onto a service road. There was a policeman on the lot, so he flashed his lights for my husband to pull over. I thought my husband would get a warning for speeding or a speeding ticket................ Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dear Steve and Shirley, I need your help on how to resolve a big mess with one of my girlfriends. I have a non- profit organization for homeless women and I provide clothing and toiletries for the ladies. I’ve been using part of my living room to sort donations. An old friend of mine recently lost weight and donated her old clothes to my organization. I went by her house to pick up the items and I was happy to see that she had two big black garbage bags full of clothes.............. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dear Steve and Shirley, my husband's father just passed away so we went to his parents’ home to make the arrangements with his mother and his sisters. With everything that his mother and sisters wanted for the funeral, it was going to be over $35,000. His father did not have life insurance, so the $35,000 would be coming from the family’s pockets. My mother passed away 5 months prior and I received a nice lump sum of money. Because my husband knew I had the money, he sat there and told his mother and sisters that ‘we’ would pay for everything......................... Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dear Steve and Shirley, I’m a 31 year old married woman and my marriage is basically over. A year ago, a 24 year old female called me and said she’d been sleeping with my husband and sent me a picture of him in her bed. Right after that, I had to be quarantined with this man, so I made the best of it. By December, I had started having virtual counseling sessions with my pastor. He was one of the first to be vaccinated in our community, so he encouraged me to do face-to-face sessions................... Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dear Steve and Shirley, I met the love of my life 7 years ago and I was 21 years old at the time. He’s 3 years older than me and had already had a child. He was my first everything and he influenced everything I did. I overlooked a lot of things he did because I was young and crazy in love. He would be intimate with the mother of his child and he didn’t try to hide it. It made me feel like I wasn’t good enough or skilled enough at sex because he kept on having sex with her............... Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dear Steve and Shirley, I’m 38 and I married my beautiful wife 5 years ago. We both have great jobs and we bought a big house for our family. When we got married, she came with 3 kids and her nephew that she’s raising for her sister. No problem, I did not have children and I loved being a father all of a sudden. I have a job that involves a lot of travel and for the past year, I’ve been out working overseas and I came home as much as possible.............. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dear Steve and Shirley, I’ve been married for 2 years and when I met my husband four years ago, he had just gotten divorced and he was in a bitter custody battle with his ex-wife. His daughter is very sweet and she loves her dad, but the ex-wife is dead set on her not having a relationship with her dad. When we met, he had to limit communication with his ex because she told everybody he kept calling her to work things out and he wanted his family back............ Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dear Steve and Shirley, I am a 36 year old married woman and my husband just turned 40 so we went on a weekend getaway to Las Vegas with another married couple that we have known for years. We got to our hotel suite and we were drinking and eating and having a good time, just the 4 of us. The guys went down to the bar around 11pm for a nightcap. I was so tipsy and tired, that I decided to lie across my bed until my husband came back. I woke up around 3am and my husband was not in the bed................. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dear Steve and Shirley, I am a 34 year old woman grieving the loss of my 77 year old best friend and sugar daddy that had been in my life since I was 19. He was also my father’s closest friend so we kept our relationship a secret for obvious reasons. When it all started, he was married to a woman that I looked up to. She was beautiful and classy and he turned me into her, with all of the nice gifts and trips he sponsored for me. We didn’t have sex until I was 23 years old and he never pressured me for sex........................ Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dear Steve and Shirley, I am a 28 year old woman and I’ve been having bad luck on the dating scene. Finally, I met someone and thought he was great. Emotionally, he fulfilled my needs and he planned the best dates. We formed a bond over the fact that we were both tired of dating and being disappointed. After dating for 2 months, we decided to take things to the next level and we had sex.......................... Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dear Steve and Shirley, I’ve been with my girlfriend for close to a year and she has a problem with talking behind my back. I noticed a change in how her friends greeted me and acted around me but I didn’t think much of it, until I found out why they were doing that. One night my girl got an attitude with me because I was playing a video game and she wanted to argue about it. She started texting somebody back-to-back and when she fell asleep, her phone was still dinging............. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dear Steve and Shirley, I have been married for 12 years and my husband and I are in our mid 30s and are regulars at a local bar by our house. We’ve met a lot of great people at this bar and look forward to seeing them weekly for karaoke night. I like the sense of community we have there and we can hang out with the other couples we’ve befriended............... Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dear Steve and Shirley, I’m a 29 year old woman and I’ve been engaged for 2 years. I’ve never questioned my man’s loyalty to me and in the 5 years total that we’ve been together, I don’t think he’s ever cheated on me. We live together and I have all of his passwords to his phones, social media accounts and his checking account. He has all of mine too............. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dear Steve and Shirley, I have been friends with a great guy for three years and we have become the best of friends with the best sexual chemistry. Our sex is off the chain. He dates other women but he’s always said that he wouldn't get in a relationship without letting me meet the female and giving him my blessing. We never talked about us being in a relationship so I gave up hope early on. He found out I was dating a guy once and he got very upset and wouldn’t answer my calls for a whole week.................. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dear Steve and Shirley, about a year ago I left my home church to join another church. I was dating the church’s drummer and he invited me to join. I fell in love with the atmosphere of the church and the senior pastor was really good. When I joined, I was asked to help put together a praise dance team. I enlisted the help of the associate pastor to help me. The associate pastor is only 3 years older than me and we connected on so many levels................ Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.