Strawberry Letter

Dear Steve and Shirley, I am a 45 year old single black female. My best friend is a 55 year old married female. She and I are on the same dating website. Yes, she’s married. Recently she told me that she has fallen in love with one of the guys she met on the site. They have been seeing each other for 2 years. Her husband is clueless. He takes care of her. She does not have to work and he is a great provider. On the other hand, the guy that she is in love with is single and he has no idea that she is married...... Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dear Steve and Shirley, I was married for 17 years and I've been divorced for six years. After my divorce, I was buckwild for a little bit dating many different women at one time. One of the girls I dated was a sweet church girl and we shared many intimate adult moments. She was a wonderful girl, but I didn't want to settle down so she stopped fooling with me. A year later I saw a picture of her younger sister on facebook and she was incredible. So I decided to reach out to the sister...... 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 together for 13 years and we've been married for five years. Before we got married, we broke up for about a year and during that time we dated other people. We got back together in 2010 and we swore that we cut ties with anyone from our past. I moved in with him and we got married. Not long after our wedding, I found out that my husband was still communicating with an ex girlfriend. This woman had the nerve to call our house and ask for him. I had words with her and she ended up hanging up on me...... Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dear Steve and Shirley, I need the code cracker. I am a 31 year old man who's been dating this girl for over a year now and everything is going great. We have the same sense of humor. So we're always laughing and the sex is so good that Tommy could beat Junior in a race for it, but just recently we've been arguing over something so stupid. We were watching a movie the other night and Michael Ealy popped up on the TV and my girl shot it out Michael Ealy can get 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 37 year old man and I've been dating a 31 year old woman for three years. She is the love of my life and I want to ask her to marry me, but I recently found out some disturbing info about her. I got an anonymous message on social media and it got my full attention. The message said that my woman was very friendly in all caps very friendly with a lot of guys when she was in college, especially the athletes. I was shocked and angry. So I confronted her immediately...... 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 woman and I've been divorced for four years. I'm finally ready to start dating. So I agreed to let my sister set me up on a blind date with her husband's friend. I had never been on a blind date before and I was a little nervous. When I got to the restaurant and met my date. I was pleasantly surprised. This man is so perfect and we have a lot in common. We ate and talked and laughed for hours..... Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dear Steve and Shirley, I have coached baseball for ten years and in those ten years I have never had a child quit my team nor have any parents ever complained about my coaching style. Well last year a parent from the opposing team yelled at me and called me out of my name. It was all over whether or not his son was safe or out during a game. Things got heated and we had a shouting match in the parking lot...... Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Dear Steve and Shirley, I'm 27 years old and my husband and I have been legally separated for three years. I recently filed for divorce and I cannot believe that he is not contesting it. I just knew it would make him come to his senses and come back home to me and the children. I will admit that I've done some things in my marriage that many people will say is evil but I was just doing me..... Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dear Steve and Shirley, In the spring of 1976 during my senior year of college, I met a girl….she was a sophomore. We hit it off immediately and we became inseparable. After my graduation, I accepted a job in New York and we would see each other twice a month. After she graduated, we eloped and on our wedding night, we had sex for the very first time. Lionel Richie was our favorite entertainer and like his song, we would be at it “All Night Long,” every night! Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dear Steve and Shirley, I need your point of view on my situation. I'm a very successful black male in my late 30s. I have a career and I'm working on my doctorate degree. I own my own home and I live a great life. My only problem is that most of my friends that I hang out with are getting married engaged or are in a very serious relationship and I am the only one that is still happily single. My male friends are starting to put pressure on me to stress me out about finding one nice female and settling down..... Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dear Steve and Shirley, I have a male best friend that I want to be more than friends with. I was taught that the man is supposed to pursue the woman so I've never attempted to tell him how I feel about him. We have been friends for ten years and although we have a strictly platonic relationship, our friends and family make jokes about us already being a couple..... Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dear Steve and Shirley, I have known my husband for 20 years and we've been married for three years. He cheated on me multiple times with multiple women but I'm standing by my wedding vows. I always pray that the good Lord would see us through his infidelity and now we're rebuilding our marriage. Not many women would be as forgiving as I am. Having said all of that I still have plenty of good sense and I've reached my limit on foolishness...... Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dear Steve and Shirley, I have been in love in a loving relationship for about a year with a man who for the most part has provided protected and professed his love for me. We have so much in common but we have several issues where there is total disagreement. In the beginning, we would laugh as we expressed our divergent views on such things as gun control immigration and sexual orientation...... Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dear Steve and Shirley, I am dating a man that I consider to be my soul mate. We have a long distance relationship but we see each other often. He always comes to visit me and I would always make sure that my house was clean. I would go out of my way to impress him. This past weekend, I went to visit him for the first time after driving for four hours, I got to his house and I was immediately shocked and disappointed 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 am a hairstylist and in the last few years I've built up a great clientele and I'm enjoying the fruits of my labor. I was able to buy a new car and I purchased my first home, a nice home. I also have found love again with a great supportive man. So here's my problem. My professional life and my love life are going great but my friendships are suffering. I've lost a lot of girlfriends in this past year.... Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dear Steve and Shirley, I am in desperate need of advice. I am a 30 year old female and I am still a virgin. I grew up in the church and I was taught to wait until marriage before sharing that part of myself. I believe that if I did the Lord would send me a husband, but now here I am 30 years old still single and wondering if I am just being naive. All of my friends who started having sex in their teenage years are all married.... Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dear Steve and Shirley, I recently got a great government job. I love my new job and I make really good money but I'm having a big problem with my new boss. My boss calls my cell phone at night and on the weekends and he sends me text messages of a sexual nature. He pops by my office daily and says all types of perverted things to me..... Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dear Steve and Shirley, I used to be a working girl, but I've been out of the game for five years. Since I made this big lifestyle change, I have only dated one man and he knew about my past and was willing and able to take care of me. Now that I'm back on the dating scene, it's been hard for me to transition to another good man.... 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 24 years and he thinks sex is the answer to everything. A prime example of this is last month when we went to a barbecue at his mother's house, when I bent over to get a soda out of the cooler I caught my husband lustily looking at my butt. A lot of friends and family members saw him too and they all laughed..... Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dear Steve and Shirley, This past Valentine's Day started out as the most amazing day with the man of my dreams. We planned to go out to dinner. So after work I went to his condo and waited for him to get home. The moment he walked through the door we got busy quick and Wild Style. Afterwards we pulled ourselves together and went out to dinner. He gave me the bottle of perfume that I've always wanted. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dear Steve and Shirley I met a gentleman seven months ago. I'm 45 and he's 37 when we met he lived 3 hours away so he decided to move to my area. It's been four months now since we've been in the same city and I'm starting to see issues with him. He didn't have a plan in place when he moved to my city and now he's living in a shelter because I told him he cannot live with me. He doesn't have a car and I refuse to drive him around..... Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dear Steve and Shirley, I have a big problem. Two years ago I relocated for work. Before I moved I had a special lady that I enjoyed spending time with. She was a big fine woman, thick in all of the right places. It's been a year since I had seen her and I was missing her good loving so I called her and told her I was sending her a bus ticket to come visit me....... Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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...... 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 22 years and we have three children. My husband and I have a great marriage and he still takes me out on dates weekly. My husband and I are prominent business owners in our community. So, whenever we go out in public, I have a problem with women approaching my husband. My husband hugs the women, chats with them and has even welcomed one woman to join us at our dinner table recently...... Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dear Steve and Shirley as Nephew Tommy would say buckle up and hold on tight. There is no easy way to explain my situation. I am a 28 year old married woman. I married my high school sweetheart and we have six kids, but I'm not sure who my kid's father is. Here's why. Ten years ago I lost my parents in a bad accident and living without them was unbearable for me. I started drinking partying and having sex all of the time with different men. 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 got married two years ago and we couldn't be happier. This is my first marriage his second. We have a total of five kids and one on the way. I love our blended family but my husband's ex-wife has been a problem since day one. I rarely get in my husband's dealings with his ex-wife but now I may have to..... Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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.