Strawberry Letter

Dear Steve and Shirley, I'm a 33 year old man and my girlfriend is 31. We have been together for over five years and when I met her she was a single mom working part time as a waitress and barely making ends meet. So we started dating and I stepped in and started doing everything for her, as a man should. She will admit that I was the best thing that ever happened to her. Now five years later she's finished college and she's got a great job. I've always supported her with anything she's wanted to do and after our two year anniversary of dating, I had planned to ask her to marry me but I had a big financial setback and I had to put that on hold........

Dear Steve and Shirley, My husband and I are in our 50s and all of our grown kids are finally out of the house. We had a great normal married life until recently when my husband became one hundred thousand dollars richer. He ended up being the beneficiary of a late family members life insurance policy, so he recently got a 100 thousand dollar check. At first he tried to hide it from me but his behavior changed and I started calling him out on it.......

My Lover Needs To Be More Patient

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. I didn't make a fuss about the picture. I asked him to delete it and he did, but seeing the woman’s picture on his phone made me wonder about the nature of our relationship.......

Dear Steve and Shirley, I'm a 22 year old married woman. My husband and I have been together for over five years but we've only been married six months. I am the first woman that my husband has ever had sex with and we waited until we got married to have sex. Shortly after we got married he told me that he wondered what it would be like to have sex with another woman because we are both still young. I felt like I should allow him to have that experience. I love how open and honest he is with me because he didn't have to share this with me. He could have just cheated on me instead........

Dear Steve and Shirley, I've been married for five years but my husband is missing a P. He provides for the family and he professes his love for me but he does not protect me like he should. Last month a neighbor yelled at our son for going into his yard to get a ball. My husband and I went outside to see what was going on. I politely asked the neighbor not to yell at our child and he began to yell and curse at me. I told my child to go inside so we could deal with the situation. My conversation with this man got heated and he was using every curse word that he could think of.......

Dear Steve and Shirley, I am a 34 year old married woman. I work hard and I feel very accomplished since I've worked my way out of the hood. I love my job and here's why, Dot dot dot. I have been sleeping with my boss for the past 3 years the affair was a big secret until recently when I came into work and found pictures on my desk of me and my boss doing the do, the news spread quickly throughout the office and now everyone at my job knows about us. Look I know we shouldn't have sex at the job but he is married too so we don't have anywhere else to do it......

Dear Steve and Shirley, I am a happily married man and I need your advice. Last summer I loaned a female friend three hundred and twenty dollars for an insurance class so she could start her own business. She was engaged to be married at the time to a preacher. After I loaned her the money we barely kept in touch. She got married and I was busy with my family and traveling for work. Recently I decided to check in on my friend and see how she was doing in her new career as an insurance agent......

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. I pray to the Lord to show me the truth. As time went on I never told him that I was still receiving calls from the woman. She even sent me pictures of my husband naked.......

Dear Steve and Shirley, I am an engaged 33 year old female. I don't have any children but my fiance has two children aged 17 and 14. When the children are with us. I'd do anything I can to make them happy. Sometimes they try to be nice to me but most of the time they are very disrespectful. When they don't get their way, they have gone so far as to call me an airhead and stupid to my face.......

Dear Steve and Shirley, My husband and I are in our early 30s and he is the most amazing man I've ever been with. He is my best friend and we have the best relationship. There's just one big problem. Our sex drives don't match up. I'm not sure if my sex drive is too high or his is too low. Since we got married, the quality of our sex life has changed. It is now very inconsistent and most of the time I find myself finishing up the job on my own. I'm not getting enough and when I do get it, its just okay.......

Dear Steve and Shirley, I'm a 35 year old hardworking single male. I'm tall dark and handsome and the ladies love me, but there is one lady in particular that I can't seem to get enough of. She's my best friend's girlfriend. I was attracted to her from the moment I saw her and I could tell she was feeling me too. One day she came on to me and one thing led to another, fast forward two years later and we're still having sex. We have to sneak around because I live with my child's mom........

Dear Steve and Shirley I'm a 31 year old single mom fresh out of a nine year relationship with my child's father. After we broke up, I focused on school, work and my child. I chose not to entertain any men for a while and I deleted all of my social media pages. I pretty much fell off the grid. Right after my ex and I broke up, we would get together occasionally just for sex but he started wanting more from me so I had to cut that off......

Dear Steve and Shirley I am I am darn near 50 years old and my wife is 40. We've been married for almost ten years and have two children both under the age of five. I want to make sure you all have the details. First of all I love my wife, but here is the problem. If I want some cookie I have to initiate it Ninety five percent of the time. Some times she will but it is rare for me. I don't want to feel like I am forcing her to do something she doesn't want to do. However I think we're both young enough to have the time of our lives......

Dear Steve and Shirley, I want your honest opinions. I'm young and I have a great job, my own place and I'm happily single for now. Here's my issue. I don't think a strong independent woman should stand by a broke man or wait for him to reach his full potential. People always say I should not overlook a man that falls short financially but I prefer to remain strong because I am not afraid of being alone......