Strawberry Letter

Dear Steve and Shirley, I'm still best friends with my high school sweetheart. He's happily married now and his wife and I are good friends too. Here's my problem. For the past couple of weeks he's been making a lot of inappropriate comments of a sexual nature to me. I always politely tell him that he needs to say those things to his wife. I don't need any issues in my life. So I told his wife that he was making me uncomfortable..... Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dear Steve and Shirley I am a 47 year old female in my third marriage. My husband and I have been married for five years and he treats me like a queen, but I feel like he hates my 17 year old daughter. This is his first marriage and he has no children. So it's shocking that he acts like a drill sergeant with my daughter. He calls her lazy and fuzzes that are constantly about her chores...... Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dear Steve and Shirley, You're not going to believe this. I'm a married man and my wife and I just purchased our first home in a new community. To celebrate home ownership, my boys took me out for drinks. We ended up going to a strip club and I got very drunk which are two things I had not done since I got married....... 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 the 6’4 tall drink of water for a few months. He is honest generous humorous and fun to be around. We decided it was time to take the next step in our relationship since we have been flirting and making suggestive comments to each other for weeks....... Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This is a special Strawberry Letter that went live on the air. Nephew Tommy's wife checks in and is the center of the letter. 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 guy for a year and he treats me really nice. We live in neighboring states but we're less than an hour apart so I wouldn't consider it a long distance relationship. We see each other a few times a week and either I'm at his house or he's at mine on the weekend. I assumed we were in an exclusive committed relationship until recently...... Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dear Steve and Shirley, I have a question and I need your advice. When should I tell a new love interest that I have been to prison? I'm not the average parolee though. I am an older woman that served a lengthy prison term as a first offender for transporting drugs. Since my release from prison, I have earned a degree and I have had a great career for many years..... Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dear Steve and Shirley, I met a very nice man three months ago and we hit it off pretty quick. He's been taking me on a lot of nice dates and we have really good time together. I thought I had finally met the man of my dreams until two weeks ago. We ended up back at his house after a great dinner date. We both were ready to be intimate and we knew it was about to go down. So we started taking off our clothes...... Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dear Steve and Shirley, This one is short and sweet. I actually want Tommy's opinion too if that’s ok. I've been married to a wonderful man for the past 12 years and we have a great marriage. I have done any and everything to make him happy. Most importantly we have a very exciting sex life...... Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hi Steve and Shirley, I really need your advice. I'm a 32 year old woman and my husband is 37. When we first got married, our sex life was amazing. About three years into our marriage, intimacy became an issue. My husband started making excuses for not wanting to do it. He never wanted to have sex anymore. When we did do it, he would just lie there like he forgot what to do...... Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dear Steven Shirley, I prayed and asked God to send me a great man. It took ten long years but my prayers were answered and I got an amazing man. We're getting married this month but there's just one problem. I was taught that you should watch how a man loves and treats his mother because it will show you what kind of man he is. Well, I recently learned that my fiance does not respect his mother at all..... Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dear Steve and Shirley, I reconnected with an old high school flame in January and we got engaged a couple of weeks ago. Well before he asked me to marry him he told me about his female best friend. He told me that he had sex with his best friend years ago but they didn't have any romantic feelings whatsoever for each other..... 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 four years. When we were dating I would sneak and go through his phone to see his text messages and call logs. He didn't have a password on his phone at the time. One day I went through his phone and I found exactly what I was looking for. I saw that my man had been texting his child's mom for a month and the texts to her were sexually explicit..... 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 wife and mother I've been married for 14 years and my husband and I have four children and we are raising a fifth child, which is my sister's child. Here's my issue. Three years ago my younger sister called me and said she was pregnant and she wanted to terminate her pregnancy because she already had two children and this pregnancy was unplanned...... Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dear Steve and Shirley, I'm in a new relationship and about two months ago, we started our sexual adventures. He is an amazing man in and out of bed. I am 28 years old and he's 10 years older than I am. I love our relationship but I have one major issue. He likes to pull my hair. To be more specific, he likes to pull my weave while we're being intimate. A couple of nights ago, he pulled my hair so hard that my scalp was on fire the next day and I had whiplash for the past two days. My darn neck hurts.... Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dear Steve and Shirley, I think that I have it all figured out when it comes to dating, yet I'm still single. I have created a few dating guidelines for the men I meet and my friends don't agree with my guidelines. I think a man should be a man at all times and provide for me. So here are a few of my guidelines. I never give a key to my house to a man. When I first meet him. He has to earn the key by helping me with the rent or mortgage..... Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dear Steve and Shirley. I need your advice because I really want to kick my dad's wife’s behind. I am a 42 year old single mother of two kids. My children's dads don't help me financially so my father has helped me raise my kids for the past 15 years. Well, I recently lost my job and everything went downhill. I was unable to pay my rent so I had to move out of my apartment at the beginning of this month..... Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dear Steve and Shirley, I am a wife and a mother with a great career. I love my husband he is my best friend and an amazing father. But sometimes I feel like he doesn't value me. Before we got married I knew he wasn't very romantic and he didn't pay attention to details. Over the years I realized that he does not get me.... Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dear Steve and Shirley, I have an issue with my wife's image on social media. My wife has an Instagram account and I feel like the picture she posts are inappropriate for a married woman. I don't have an Instagram account. So for a long time I had no idea what she was posting on her page. One day I asked her to see her Instagram page and as I started flipping through the pics I was so shocked by what I saw...... 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 married woman. My husband and I have been married for almost three years. We met at work and we fell for each other rather quickly. We also began to have sex early on in our relationship. At first the sex was ok. It was what I needed then, but as time went on our encounters started to be a problem because he could not last long at all.... Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dear Steve and Shirley, Four months ago I married the love of my life. So far, our marriage is great. I'm a head chef at a high end restaurant and I love my job, but I work long hours. There are a lot of beautiful single female servers and bartenders that work at the restaurant and it seems like since I got married these women have started to show me a lot of attention. A couple of the girls have asked me to hang out after work...... Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dear Steven Shirley I'm a 41 year old married man. My wife and I have been married for 19 years. We've also been living with her parents for the entire 19 years. It's not a financial thing. We are good on that front. Her parents are also financially stable and healthy. When I met my wife she was living with her parents. He told me once we got married we had to live with her parents but it would only be temporary. He would only be there for three years...... Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dear Steve and Shirley, I am a 30 year old mother of two and I've been married since I was 18. Well recently I met a man online and initiated the conversation with him about sports since we like the same teams. I was completely attracted to him when I saw him online and we decided we should meet in person and once we met we started out as friends and we talk to each other and saw each other daily.... Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dear Steve and Shirley I need your honest advice here because I don't know how to handle this situation. I'm in my late 40s and in a good relationship with a man my age. We are well above the age of foolishness, but recently we had a big disagreement. I was staying at his house the other night and I got a call from my ex husband, who I still consider a friend. My ex husband is still single and he lives alone...... Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dear Shirley Strawberry, I've been dating this guy's whole lot of empty promises. I let him in my life. He had potential. Nice looking, in school recently obtained his master's, hard working at one time held down two jobs, had his own place. At one time I had the key. Then along comes a BFF a best friend forever from New Jersey and he took the key back and then they move in to a 2 bedroom apartment...... 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 husband for 30 years. He's a great father and a great son to his mother, but he falls short on being a good husband. When I met him I thought that if a man treats his mother like a queen he will be a great husband, but after all of these years I think that I may be living with a mama's boy....... Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dear Steve and Shirley, I am a wife and a mother of two children. I've been married for 11 years to my wonderful husband, but I recently found out he had been cheating on me for a year. I found out when the woman started calling me she told me that she was taking good care of him when he is away from home with her. I confronted him about it and of course he denied it...... Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dear Steven Shirley I'm a 32 year old divorced mother of five. Recently I met the man that I am now in love with. The chemistry was bananas from the moment we met. He accepted my children with no problem. To top it all off he's tall dark handsome and the sex is so good. It brought a tear to my eye one night........ Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dear Steve and Shirley, my ex-girlfriend and I had been together for many years, but we recently broke up because she was selfish and didn’t want to get married. We broke up about six months ago, but we continued to have sex because that’s the one thing that she does very well.... Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hello Stephen Shirley. I met a guy about a month ago. We met at a restaurant he co owns with a friend. We sat there for the whole night chatting the night away and left in the morning. He got my numbers from a girlfriend of mine just before we left the place. He then called 30 minutes later to find out if we got home safe.... Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dear Steve and Shirley, I need you advice concerning an issue that is going on in my marriage. I sincerely and wholeheartedly love my wife and have never even considered having an extramarital affair, but after the smallest misunderstanding with my wife, she deprives me of sex for three months..... Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dear Steve and Shirley, I begin this letter by saying I hate my husband of 12 years. I feel as though he has made a fool of me and I feel stupid. The thought of him makes me sick to my stomach. I want to say kiss my butt. I'm at the point in which I don't even care to confront him for what reason..... Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Good morning everyone there in the studio. I got this problem that I always find the perfect woman. Well sort of perfect to be with me. I'm a tall dark and very handsome young man trying to make it in life, but right now I don't feel that way because I thought part of being a man...... Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dear Steve and Shirley, for the past two years, I have been friends with a really nice guy. He is very handsome, until he opens his mouth and shows his little scary looking shark teeth. After the first year of hanging out with each other, he said he wanted to take our friendship to the next level..... Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Steve and Shirley. I met my husband on a blind date and eventually we got married. Now by no means am I perfect and I don't make myself out to be perfect. We've been married for six years and we have two children together.... Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dear Steve and Shirley, My husband and I have been married for 11 years and one of our main problems is his 14 year old daughter, my stepdaughter. To put it nicely, she is a liar and a manipulator. I have always treated her as if she was my own child and honestly, I treated her better than her own mother does...... Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Good morning everyone. Steve I know you like to turn every problem into a joke but please be kind. I'm a 39 year old black male who turned his life around 10 years ago when I left the street life and joined the Nation of Islam. 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 this guy for the past couple of months. We actually moved in with each other. He is married and expecting a baby. His wife does not live in the same state that we're in...... Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dear Steve and Shirley, My co-worker and I have developed feelings for each other. The problem is, he is already in a situationship with another co-worker. They've been together for more than four years and he says they're not sexually involved, but they spend a lot of time with each other... Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dear Steve and Shirley, I have been with my husband for almost 16 years. We have three beautiful healthy children. After our second child was born, my husband was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dear Steve and Shirley, I just started dating this guy and he is great. I'm 28 and he is 31. Here's where it gets tricky. Last week he invited me to his family's barbecue. I was excited because this would be the first time I would meet his family. We go to his parents house and he introduced me to his siblings and his step mom..... Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dear Steve and Shirley, My life could not be more complicated. I'm a 36 year old woman and I've been dating the same man for 21 years. Yes that's right. He's my boyfriend and we've been together off and on since middle school..... Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dear Shirley and Steve, I am 45 and my husband is 46. We've been married for almost 18 years and have four children. Sex between us was really good and often. My husband wanted sex any time he saw me. I thought it was borderline neurotic, but my ego and my husband made me… Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dear Steve and Shirley, I'm a 32 year old wife and mother. My husband and I have three children. When I first met my husband seven years ago he was kind loving protective and the sex was amazing. After we got married he started complaining about everything. All he does now is complain like a woman....... Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dear Steve and Shirley, for the past year, I have been seeing an older, married man. And yes, I know it is wrong... Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dear Steve and Shirley, let me start off by saying that I am young man in my mid-twenties, but I have been fully committed to my beautiful girlfriend since high school. Our relationship is great, but my issue is when we are out in public, Lord knows this ALWAYS happens to me... 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 four months, and recently we decided to be exclusive and to start being intimate. The other night I was over at his place and things started to heat up. I was super excited because we hadn't been going any further than kissing, but this night I was finally going to give him some... Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Good morning to all. Steve I've been waiting for the chance to speak to you and Shirley or have you speak into my life. I'm a single parent of a 13 year old boy. My son is very intelligent a straight A student. My concern with my son is that I feel he lacks common sense... Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dear Steve and Shirley I'm hoping I can get some advice on this issue because it's driving me crazy. My husband's mom has been living with us and sleeping on my couch for the past month. She left her boyfriend because of his drug use and moved in with her elderly father. One Saturday she asked to come stay with us so she could go to church with us. The next morning well she never made it to church and a month later she's still sleeping on our couch... Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hi Steve I am 23 years old and I am married to a 21 year old man. We have two babies together. He's in the military and I stay at home and watch the kids. I am bisexual... Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.