Strawberry Letter

Dear Steve and Shirley, I have been married to my wife for 15 years and we have two beautiful kids. We grew up in the church and we abstained from sex before we got married. We don’t use drugs or drink alcohol and we are active in our church. But lately, my wife is showing me a side of her that I’ve never seen. She’s revealing who she really is and I’m starting to wonder who I married. She had a health scare recently and she said it really shook her up and made her reflect on how she wanted to live the rest of her life.......

Dear Steve and Shirley, I am a 32 year old single mom of a 16 year old and I still live at home with my 84 year old father. I have never moved out because I never wanted my daughter to suffer through any hardships or go without having the things she wants and needs. My dad takes good care of us, so that helps me save money. Here’s the problem… I’ve been dating a man for 4 years and we have a great relationship, but he is pressuring me to move in with him, with my daughter........

Dear Steve and Shirley, I am a 28 year old female and I have a 57 year old male mentor that I work with. He has given me great advice and helped me through some obstacles in my life. This is the first man that has ever treated me with respect and did not try to sleep with me. He is like a father figure to me and I call myself his play daughter. The only problem is his wife. He knew that I did not have any plans for Thanksgiving dinner, so he invited me to his home........

Dear Steve and Shirley, let’s get right to it. Here's my dilemma… I’m a 38 year old woman and I've never wanted to have children. Five years ago, I was in a great relationship and we were talking about getting married, but he wanted children and I did not. So we mutually decided to end our relationship. We could not deny that we were still in love with each other, so two years after we broke up, we reconnected and have been seeing each other off and on since then. While we’ve been spending time together, he started a relationship with a new woman and they had a child together and he couldn’t be happier........

I am 33-year-old woman that is madly in love with a 63-year-old man. We have been dating for over a year and we spend a lot of time together. I am head over heels in love with this guy and I want to spend the rest of my life with him. The only thing that is stopping us from being together is the fact that he is best friends with my child’s grandparents. I’m very close to them and we have a great family bond. I am an angel in their eyes and they would be heartbroken and I would be ashamed if they found out. That’s the one thing that is keeping us from being together, not even the fact that he is married. Yes, that’s right. He’s married and I’m okay with that, because she is basically just at the house as his roommate. I get treated like I’m the wife..........

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. I called my dad to ask if we could move back home and my dad had the nerve to tell me that I had to discuss it with his wife, my stepmother. He put her on the phone as she screamed, “Hell No!” and said this would be the ninth time that I've moved back in with them..........

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. The other day he was trying to show me a picture on his phone and he mistakenly pulled up a picture of another woman, he tried to quickly swipe passed the picture but he knew I had seen it........

Dear Steve Harvey and Shirley. Currently I am separated and over 40 can't have any children. Main reason for my divorce anyway. I met a man Mr. Man who was also separated and we became very close. It was great after a year. Mr. Man has his divorce. Once my divorce was final this summer I thought Mr. Man and I would be together. Well Mr. Man told me that he was going to New Jersey to get his ex girlfriend the woman he should have married instead of his wife. I had to ask what about me. He said I'm a beautiful woman but I had three problems. Number one I am too emotional........

Dear Steve and Shirley. I have a problem. I met a guy and I consider him a good friend and I want to get to know him better. He has taken me on a few dates and all went well at first. The problem arose after one of our recent dates after a really good date. We decided we'd pick up some food and go back to his house to chill and eat our food. Well when we got to his house with our food and he turned the lights on. Boom bam boom roaches went flying from east to west. They were so bad they were even crawling on his dog. But told him politely that I was not eating my food.........

Dear Steve and Shirley, I am a successful 32 year old woman that got caught up with a 45 year old man. Before dating him, I’ve only had one serious relationship, but I am no fool, so I’m not sure how I let this man cloud my judgment. I had my suspicions that he was a cheater, but I could never get any real proof till recently. It was like the angles came down from Heaven one day and made him forget his phone at home. I heard the phone ringing and saw that it was a female calling, so I answered it. To my surprise, the woman said she was my boyfriend’s girlfriend......

Dear Shirley and Steve, I've been married to my wife for over ten years and we have five kids. Before we got married, my wife was in an abusive relationship and over time, our arguments would lead to her getting in my face and scratching me all up. In the first 2 years of our marriage, she gave me 2 black eyes. I would never put my hands on a woman and I can never leave her because her sex is so amazing and it has a hold on me........

Dear Steve and Shirley, I've been in a relationship with a married man for ten years. People think that all mistresses have low self-esteem. However, I don't. I am very confident and I love everything about myself. Since I've been with my guy. I have only cheated on him once and I told him about it and promised him that it wouldn't happen again. In the first few months of our affair I tried to end it but both he and I were already in love. He is my best friend and he has my entire heart.......

Dear Steve and Shirley, I’m in a fairly new relationship with a great guy. Everything was going great the first 90 days of our relationship, so we were mutually ready to advance to a sexual relationship. We talked beforehand about what we enjoyed and did not enjoy during intimacy. But he left out one important detail about what he really likes. On our second encounter, he asked me to use a toy on him.......

Dear Steve and Shirley, this is probably the hardest decision I've ever had to make. I have two teenage children and their mother and I separated 10 years ago, but have maintained a solid co-parenting relationship. 5 years ago, I got remarried and my new wife seemed to accept my children and played a decent role as a stepmom. That didn’t last long and she eventually started treating them poorly. My teenagers became increasingly uncomfortable when they came over for the weekend........

Dear Steve and Shirley, my husband and I have been married for 25 years and we have a beautiful blended family. We worked hard to provide a great life for our children and we put them all through college. Now that our last child has left home, we are finally empty nesters so we decided to downsize on our house so we can travel and do the things we enjoy. We found a nice, much smaller house and my husband handled all of the financing and paperwork. After we closed on the house, I found out that my name was not on any of the paperwork........