Strawberry Letter

Dear Steve and Shirley, I’ve been married for 12 years and I have had a lot of ups and downs with my husband. He loves the ladies and I had to crack down on the time he spent in the streets so he wouldn’t slip up and cheat on me again. He’s cheated before and he swore that was behind him. We went to counseling and he told the therapist that I would never catch him cheating again. I didn’t realize what he had said until recently. He said that I would never catch him.......................See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dear Steve and Shirley, my uncle is 64 years old and he’s still got a lot of life in him. He recently got engaged and the family didn’t know he was that serious about this woman. She’s cute but she’s clueless. She’s 57 years old and she got divorced about 4 years ago and doesn’t know how to do anything for herself. She’s never paid bills, bought groceries or put gas in her car. My uncle thinks it's cute, but as he gets older, it won’t be practical..................................See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dear Steve and Shirley, I have been dating a man for almost two years and he has a lot of female friends.  I hung out with all of them and at first I tried to act like a team player, but, I see has no respect for boundaries in this relationship.  He has a lot of house parties or his friends will come over and do impromptu cookouts no matter what we have planned.  He drops everything to entertain them........................See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dear Steve and Shirley, my husband and I are 34 and we’ve been together for 9 years and married for 3 years. The only reason we are married is because I gave him an ultimatum. After six years of dating, we needed to move this thing forward or I was gone. He’s always been very full of himself and the women in his family made him think he was God’s gift to the earth because he has eyes that change color and he’s tall and very handsome..............................See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Dear Steve and Shirley, I’m a 59 year old mother of 2 grown sons and I pride myself on how well I raised them by myself. They both are educated with great jobs. My oldest son is married and he has a baby on the way with his wife. My youngest son is 29 and he is trying to send me to an early grave. When I was raising my boys, I had a village of strong women to help me..........................................See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dear Steve and Shirley, I am a 27 year old woman and I just moved in with my boyfriend. We’ve been dating for one year and we have a great relationship, but of course there’s an issue, or I wouldn’t be writing you. Our love making is very good, but we are never alone when we are intimate. There’s always four extra eyes very close by, staring at us. It’s his dogs. He has a Doberman and a German Shepherd and these dogs are very spoiled and run the house. When my boyfriend and I get in the bed, they jump in too! Since I moved in, my boyfriend has forced them to sleep on the floor next to our bed, since I didn’t want them in our bed..............See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dear Steve and Shirley, I am a divorced, 44 year old single mom.  As an attractive, curvy, and educated woman, I have no problems meeting men, it’s keeping them that’s the issue. The last man that I dated, we were together for almost 3 months before we had sex. I made him wait for a reason, and here’s why… When we had sex for the first time, he passed out afterwards. He was only out for a short time and when he came to, he said his blood sugar was low, but I think he was lying, because this has happened to me before, with another man. The next time we made love, I toned down the intensity and I cut out the extra stuff that I normally do...........See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dear Steve and Shirley, I am in desperate need of advice. I was engaged to be married, but my fiancé and I recently split up after my ex-wife caused a whole lot of problems in our relationship. When my ex heard I was engaged, she called me. I told her that I was extremely happy and excited to get remarried. My ex said that she was happy for me and wished me well, which was a big lie. A few days after we talked, my ex created a new Facebook page, named it “The Thompsons” and posted a bunch of old pics from our wedding and family vacations..........See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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, because I wanted him so badly.......................See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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 owner...............................See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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.........................................See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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 information.

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 too. In the past seven months, she’s lost weight, let her hair grow out and she stopped polishing her fingernails.........................See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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 swagger, but I liked him because he was very smart and well-spoken............................See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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 first two months, we only kissed and caressed...............................See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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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..........................See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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 recently.................See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

  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/listener for privacy information.

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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 because he doesn’t make a lot of money...........................See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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 day in a robe and a bonnet...................See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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 to record it too..........................See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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................................See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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...........................................See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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...........................See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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..............See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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 stayed between my house and my mother's house................See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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 ago sent a text to tell me that she was in town and would love to visit my mom.....................................See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

  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 jokester lately and he acts like he was raised by wolves now....................See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

  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’re such a cute couple. It’s because we’re short..................................See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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/listener for privacy information.

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/listener for privacy information.

Dear Steve and Shirley, I recently married the man of my dreams and I love everything about him, except his female friends and his ex-girlfriends. This man is friends with everyone from his past and before we got married, his house was party central. He slowed it down when we got serious and he changed his phone number to show me that he was serious about being a one-woman-man......................See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dear Steve and Shirley, I’ve been married for 11 years and I have one daughter that’s 15 and my husband and I have an 8 year old. My husband is a great man and he stepped up to be a father to my daughter, whose biological father passed away. My husband is a tutor at my daughter’s school and he volunteers at events as a makeshift security guard at the school.......................See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dear Steve and Shirley, I’ve been married for 2 years and I’m 25 years old. My husband is 26 and he pursued me heavily until I let him take me out. We had a great first date and he told me that he loved me. I fell for him really quick and we got married in no time. He lived out in the suburbs and I had an apartment downtown so he stayed with me mostly before we got married...........................See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dear Steve and Shirley, I grew up in a two-parent home and both of my parents earned college degrees and worked hard to provide a good life for me and my siblings. I have a college degree as well and I’ve been married for over 20 years to a great woman and we have two teenagers. My teenagers are well mannered and really smart kids. So, here’s my problem… I met my wife in college and fell in love with her, but I can not stand her family.............See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dear Steve and Shirley, I’m a 30-year old man and I love working out. I started a new, very intense workout routine last month and my trainer suggested I get a good deep tissue massage to get out the kinks. So, I scheduled a 90-minute deep tissue massage with a massage therapist. It’s an in-home massage service that came highly recommended by my trainer. A day later, a female therapist showed up at my house and I was surprised at how beautiful and in shape she was..............See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dear Steve and Shirley, I’ve been married for almost 9 years to a man that would rather buy me things than talk to me and spend time with me. We have a boat and other water toys and that’s how he spends his time. I can only imagine how women must flock to him when he’s at the lake because I can smell their scents on him whenever he does come home...............................See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dear Steve and Shirley, I’m a 49 year old married woman and my husband is 59. We’ve been married for 6 years and this is my first marriage and his second. We dated a good while before he asked me to marry him and when I accepted his proposal, I told him that I didn’t want to live in the house that he and his wife and kids lived in. He rented out his house and we bought a fixer-upper house in a great neighborhood............................................See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dear Steve and Shirley, I’ve been with the same man for 11 years and he asked me to marry him 4 years ago. Now all of a sudden, he wants to set a wedding date, but I do not want to. I met him in college and I thought we were destined to have a great love story. I was 20 and he was 22 and our chemistry was amazing. When I was 22, I got pregnant and we moved in together.............................See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dear Steve and Shirley, my husband and I are in our late forties and we’ve been married for 20 years. We have one son that was active in sports and he worked with my husband, helping to build his trucking business. Our son is 19 years old and he recently left the nest and moved about 2 hours from us, to be closer to school. He decided to change his major and transfer to a better school for his degree program and I was ecstatic..................................See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dear Steve and Shirley, I’m a 56 year old married woman and my husband and I have been married for 18 years. I work as a CNA at a really nice senior living residence and I love my job. During the onset of the pandemic, I quarantined with the residents for a couple of weeks. I grew close to one of the male residents and he and I would play cards in his apartment at night. He’s 75 but he’s still in good shape and he’s got a big bright smile and most of his hair...................................See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dear Steve and Shirley, I’m a 48 year old married woman and I’ve been married since I was 22 years old. My husband is 3 years my senior and he swept me off my feet right after I finished college. I had 3 kids for him and they are grown. We travel together and we enjoy life as much as possible, but I wish my husband was a little more involved in the church than he is....................................See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dear Steve and Shirley, I was married for 11 years and we had 2 daughters. The last three years of our marriage, he messed with his brother’s baby’s mother and she got pregnant. His brother has 2 sons by this woman and my husband is the godfather of both of his brother’s sons. His brother left her after he caught her in bed with another man at their house.................................See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dear Steve and Shirley, I’m a 31 year old licensed cosmetologist, nail technician and esthetician. I have a hair salon, I do eyebrows, nails and I do Botox injections. My salon is upscale and I have the upper echelon clients in my city. I am recently divorced and I have to pay my ex-husband spousal support because the judge thought that my ex-husband helped me build my business while we were married............................See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dear Steve and Shirley, my boyfriend of 2 years has been talking about marriage, but I hate all of his family and friends. We’re both 33 years old and we met online. I got offered a job promotion and a transfer to the city where my boyfriend grew up. We decided I’d take the job and we’d get married, so we relocated to the city that he grew up in........................See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dear Steve and Shirley, I’m a very beautiful and buxom female in my mid forties and I’m divorced. My husband cheated on me with an acquaintance of mine that I let stay with us for 2 nights so her house could get painted. I was naïve and didn’t suspect anything even though I caught him coming out of the bathroom where she was taking a shower. He said he walked in by mistake. I found out right after that, when she confessed.............................See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.