Strawberry Letter

Dear Steve and Shirley, I'm a forty seven year old, married married man. My wife's twenty nine year old niece got divorced recently and moved back to town. Her daughter is in a really good preschool that happens to be by our house. So my wife asked if she and her daughter can stay at our house until November, when her alimony payments start and she can move into her own house. She works part time for now, and I work second shift, so I don't head out to work until two pm daily. My wife goes to work around seven am, and she drops the kid off at school. 

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dear Steve and Shirley, My boyfriend is the sweetest person I've ever dated. We met when he picked me up from the airport in his SUV. I had just moved to Alabama and my company hired him to be my driver until my car was delivered. He showed me around the city and introduced me to some of his female friends, but they weren't the kind of women I wanted to be associated with. They're big weed smokers and drinkers, and I'm more laid back. I needed someone to hang out with, so the driver was always available to go to dinner, festivals, and movies with me.........................................

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dear Steve and Shirley, I'm a thirty three year old single woman and I've been in a long distance relationship for the past eight months. He pursued me, and he claimed that he didn't care about the distance because it was love at first sight for him. I had strong feelings for him once I got to know him, but something was keeping me from him from falling head over heels in love with him. He said it was hard to get me to soften up and let my guard down. So I did something that I usually would never do. I drove two hours to surprise him. Last week, I snuck in the gate at his complex and I was sitting in my car in a skin tight dress when he got home from work........................................

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dear Steve and Shirley, I've been married for three years and my husband had two sons when we got married. I'm cordial with the mom of his nine year old son. It's the mother of the two year old that I don't vibe with. Here's why my husband and I split up a month before our planned wedding date because we were arguing over wedding plans and money. He started sleeping on the couch and we ignored each other for weeks, so we postponed the wedding and he moved in with his cousin. During that time, he met a girl and was having sex with her without protection..........................................

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dear Steve and Shirley, I've been with my boyfriend for five years. I moved in with him when I got pregnant, and he asked me to marry him on our daughter's second birthday. We haven't had money for a wedding because he was in the process of starting his clothing line right when I got pregnant. He has a line of sweats, t-shirts, shorts and baseball caps. He runs a business out of our guest room and I help him ship the items. I can see when the inventory is low, and I noticed that a lot of the women's short sets vanished, but we didn't get any orders for them...........................................

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dear Steve and Shirley, My husband and I have been married for twelve years and he is on just about every committee at our church, so he's always doing something for ladies at our church. He does not offer to take me with him, even though I complain that he does not spend time with me like he used to. He told me that it's part of his calling to serve others. He likes to mirror what our pastor does, so he'll drop everything to go help the single church women do odd jobs around the house. Just like Saturday, he went to change out the filters and a single church member's air conditioner. He came in late and said the unit was in the attic and he had trouble getting to it......................

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dear Steve and Shirley, I'm a forty four year old married woman and my husband has been sleeping in the other room lately. He and I got into an argument on Easter weekend and he told me that he could do a lot better than me and find someone that doesn't nag him or treat him like a child. He's sixty seven and we've been married for four years. Since we got married, I bathe him every night.  I put lotion on his body and I suffer through bad sex. I also cook every night. I wash all of his clothes, and I wash both of our cars whenever they need to be cleaned.....................................

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dear Steve and Shirley, I am a hard-working, faithful man. I was married for 15 years to my college sweetheart. I never had any problems in my marriage until I tried to help out a friend. Here’s what happened… my wife had a best friend and the friend was married to a bigtime cheater. We were always there for her if she was going through drama with her husband. Their marriage finally ended when her husband got her cousin pregnant...............

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dear Steve and Shirley, I’ve been married for 7 years. I’m 43 and my husband is 38, but he acts like the world owes him something and always has a chip on his shoulder. He is argumentative and a wanna-be thug. He grew up in a rough area and he had to make it out of the hood on his own, but he won’t acknowledge that he’s in a much better place spiritually and financially now. He will preach a good sermon on Sunday, but Monday thru Saturday, he curses, drinks and he’s a womanizing thug.....................

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dear Steve and Shirley, I am a 30 year old mother with 3 children. My children’s father and I have been together over 10 years so let me say this before you bash me… he has asked to marry me him several times and I respectfully declined because we need to go to therapy before we get married. Here’s why… My confidence is at an all-time low because my children’s father has cheated many times...............

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dear Steve and Shirley, I’m a 35 year old man with 2 kids and a stepdaughter by my wife. I love my family, but I have come to a breaking point with my wife. For the second time in 4 years she has left the home and cut off all contact with me and the kids. The first time she left, she ran off with a man that she met online. She bought a bus ticket and rode out west and didn’t contact us for a month. Eventually, the guy dumped her and she reached out to me.............

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dear Steve and Shirley, I have been sad for a while now and I’m seeking advice on how to move past this situation. I have been in a relationship for 6 years with a married man that was loving and attentive and treated me like a priority at all times. We live about an hour away from each other and he would make a point to see me weekly and take me on business trips with him and weekend outings whenever he could................

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dear Steve and Shirley, I love my wife very much and she is the mother of my children, but I have another woman. My wife is very beautiful and smart, but she doesn’t submit to me like my mistress does. My wife wants me to be the man of the house all of the time and when I ask her for help on certain things, she huffs and puffs. I just want a partnership with her and raise our children together..................

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dear Steve and Shirley, I’m a 29 year old single woman with a great job, but I have an issue with a co-worker. I went to a local bar a couple of weeks ago and had a few drinks. I noticed a man and woman in the corner cuddling and didn’t think anything of it at first. Later on, I went to the bathroom and passed the couple and realized it was two of my co-workers in the corner boo’d up. Both of them are married and when they saw me, they instantly took their arms off each other and separated...........

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dear Steve and Shirley, my husband of 22 years has made a lot of changes in the last 6 months. He’s been in the military since I met him and he retired last year, but he still hangs around with his co-workers. He has always cursed like a sailor because he was a sailor when he was younger. When we had our first child, I asked him to watch what he said around our daughter and he slacked up with using profanity.....................

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dear Steve and Shirley, I’m married to my high school sweetheart but we have only been married for 4 years. After high school, we went our separate ways and he was married for 20 years and had 3 kids with his wife. I was married for 13 years and I got a divorce and was raising my 2 children alone, when I reconnected with my high school sweetheart. We blended our families and picked right back up where we left off in high school....................

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dear Steve and Shirley, I met a very beautiful woman that is hood and bougie. She’s a bad dresser and she has a bad figure. She’s got a bad ride and she’s got a mean walk. I mean bad as in good, Steve, real good. We met at a lounge and she stood out from her group of girlfriends. She was poised and graceful and I watched her sip wine while her friends were all loudly chanting and taking shots.....................

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dear Steve and Shirley, I need your advice on an issue with my husband. We’ve been married almost 2 years and we are parents of a 7 month old baby girl. I’m a nurse and I work nights, 7pm till 3am. My husband is an optometrist and he had a licensing exam in Maine last month so he had to be gone for 5 days. I suggested that my best friend’s sister babysit while I was at work. She’s 25 now and I’ve known her since she was in 3rd grade..................

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dear Steve and Shirley, I am engaged to a man that I work with. We both teach elementary school and when he transferred to my school, it was love at first site for me. At the time, I had only been divorced a few months and my ex-husband was still pursuing me and trying to work things out. He cheated on me more than a few times when we were married, so I divorced him...................................

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

What’s a workout without a little sweat? It feels good to leave it all on the yoga mat and it's hard to deny that post-workout glow, but what about the post-workout acne or flare-up?  Let’s explore how to get in a good, solid sweat without sacrificing our skin. 

In this episode of Skinquries, our experts Dr. Thivi Maruthappu and Dr. Mamina Turegano help us understand what sweat is and explore solutions to our post-workout woes. While our special guest, Brianne Hogan will take us through her own skincare journey that saw the hot yoga she so badly needed to heal, add to her distress through painful, embarrassing breakouts. And how she was able to reclaim her practice and her skin.

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dear Steve and Shirley, I started messing with the man that lives next to me. He was in a long distance relationship, so we started messing around out of boredom. I'm separated from my husband, so it was helping me out, and it was convenient. His girlfriend has moved to town and she's always at his house, so we can't spend as much time together as we used to. I went out and I met a man at karaoke night and he came back to my place. One thing led to another and we had sex, and I mean it was good too. I must have been too loud because I heard banging on the wall..................................................

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dear Steve and Shirley, My husband has put my life in danger for the last time. When we started dating, he had a lot of loose ends to tie up with women from his past. Even at our wedding, an ex of his was in the parking lot crying and one of his cousins had to get her under control. We've been married for two years and we live in his house. Things have been quiet lately, and even his ex wife has settled down and stopped annoying me. He mentioned to me how one of his exes lost her dad and he was close to the guy. He said his ex moved to London, and they lost touch. He admitted that she used to live with him for a short period of time, but they broke up and he hadn't heard from her in over five years....................................................

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dear Steve and Shirley, you are not going to believe this. I am 30 years old and my longtime girlfriend has an identical twin sister. I can barely tell them apart sometimes. They both have short curly afros, they both have dimples in both cheeks and their bodies are the same. My girlfriend and her twin love to prank me and confuse me since they look so much alike. Their little pranking went too far and now I want in on the fun.......................................

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dear Steve and Shirley, I've been dating a guy for close to three years and I need some advice on a major issue I’m having with him. I love this man and he is a great guy. He loves me, too, and we have been talking about marriage. But here’s my issue… I can not stand going to his house because it is always a mess. When we spend quality time together, we’re always at my house and I have to encourage him to pick up after himself and not eat all over my house. He and his teenage son live like slobs and I have told him that I don’t feel comfortable at his house............................

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dear Steve and Shirley, My boyfriend is very outgoing and when I started dating him, I gained several new friends, mostly females. I trusted him and I had no reason to think he would ever try to have sex with his female friends. We've been dating for three years and I went to his house Thursday and his friend Grace was in his bed sleeping. He told me she had a migraine, so he picked her up from work and brought her to his house so he could look after her and he told me not to turn the TV on because she needed the house to be quiet and dark. Grace started throwing up and he ran to take care of it............................

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dear Steve and Shirley, I've been married for four years and I just had my first child at age forty. My husband has two children from a previous marriage. When I came home with the baby, he had his two children at my house and it was a mess. His son is fourteen and his daughter is eleven. My husband said they're not used to cleaning up, so he would get to it. His entitled children have a housekeeper at their main home with their mom so they don't have to lift a finger. I didn't speak to him for days because the house was filthy, and he shouldn't have me and our newborn daughter come home to filth. I told his ex wife that she should start now. It's not too late to give the kids basic chores around the home........................

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dear Steve and Shirley, I am 57 years old and have been married to an intelligent, extremely good looking 60 year old man for ten years. We’re admired by friends and family because we seem to have the perfect marriage. At home and in public, we act like two teenagers in love. We send each other silly texts all day and we play all kind of silly games at home..............

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dear Steve and Shirley, I'm a forty eight year old married woman and I've been living alone for the past three years. My husband moved out and he's living with one of my girlfriends. Okay, wait, yeah, I had to let that be right for a moment. Yeah. I found out they'd been messing around for years, and I was hurt but not surprised, and I took it better than they expected me to. Instead of acting a plump fool, I called her up and asked her why she did it. She told me that I was neglecting him sexually. I can accept that because I did. He came to me a few days after that and asked if he could go be with her. I told him that I wanted him here with me. He said he didn't want to be here with me. We have a twenty four year old son, and he was there when my husband said it. He told me to let him go. It would not have been that easy if my son wasn't there................................................

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dear Steve and Shirley, I am in need of advice. I am a 36 year old divorced man and I’m engaged to be married. I’m a middle school teacher and I have 2 children by my first marriage. My first wife is also a teacher at the same school and we divorced after I caught her cheating on me in her car with the track coach at our school. After the scandal, he transferred to a high school and my ex-wife married him. It was hell to have to work with her after she moved on with the guy that she cheated on me with..................

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dear Steve and Shirley, I met a man and fell in love. I'm forty five and he's fifty five. I didn't like him at first, but he wore me down and stole my heart. I have to weigh the pros with the cons all the time because he is very annoying. He's been very handsy from the beginning of our relationship. We went on a blind date and I was very nervous because he's older. He reached across the table and grabbed my wrist and told me that he could feel my heart racing by the pulse in my wrist. I wanted to snatch my hand from his because he was being too familiar. He walked me to my car and he had his hand in the small of my back............................

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dear Steve and Shirley, I'm married to the sweetest man on earth, and he's very outgoing and he loves to cook. Because of that, we never can have a quiet dinner at home. If he makes pasta, he has enough food to feed the multitude, and his family knows it, so they automatically drop by and fix a plate. My husband has styrofoam to go plates just for his family. I complain about his family taking advantage of him, but he doesn't see it that way. I do sneaky little things, like I'll ask his mother to bring a gallon of milk when she comes, but she always has an excuse not to do it. She'll say she wasn't dressed to run in the store, or she forgot to shop...................................................

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dear Steve and Shirley, I'm in a long distance relationship with a guy that I dated in high school. We both married other people, and we both got divorced last fall, so we decided to give dating a try again, but he lives almost three hours away, so I don't get to see him as much as I'd like to. He came to see me over the weekend, and this was our first time having sex in nineteen years. I was so ready for it. He got in Thursday and I went to his hotel room after work. I took a shower, and then he put it on me like he promised. He kept on saying that I had been waiting for that moment for years, and he said I'm by far the best woman he ever had sex with...................................................

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dear Steve and Shirley, My brother and I were best friends, and I love his wife like she's my blood relative. Her family has become my family because my brother and I lost our mom ten years ago and our daddy is a loser. His wife's family has welcomed me for Christmases, Birthdays and other family gatherings. All of that has come to an end because I took up for my brother and it backfired on me. I manage a restaurant that is in the county, far away from the city, so it's become the creep spot for cheating men to go on dates. My brother is the main one that's always hitting me up for a table in the back. Back in November, I put him in the back for a date with the lady that flew into town to see him........................................

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dear Steve and Shirley, I have some news to share with you and I need your input. I am a 33 year old woman and I have a female friend that everyone thinks is just a friend, but secretly, she’s my girlfriend. Girlfriend, as in lover. It all started about four years ago when we both were having issues in our love life and we started venting, crying and holding each other. One thing lead to another and it was on! I totally loved the experience and wish I could be with her more, but we live in different cities................

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dear Steve and Shirley, I've been married for seven years and I need advice because my husband is being inappropriate with the girl that keeps our kids. I was at the hair salon and a girl that goes to church with me asked if I had the same babysitter that used to come to church with me. I told her yes, and she asked if I had seen the pictures from the babysitter's trip to Destin. I am not on TikTok, so she showed me the babysitters videos. I've only seen her as a twenty four year old, sweet, introverted girl that loves my two kids. On the video, she was taking shots of alcohol and twerking on her girlfriends and throwing her middle fingers up............................................

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dear Steve and Shirley, I’m 28 years old and single and I’ve had the worst dating history of all of my friends. I was recently dating a guy that told me he had a stalker and we had to lay low for a while until she left him alone. I understood why he might have a stalker because he is fine and sexy with a bald head and full beard. He’s 36 years old so I was intrigued by dating an older man for the first time........................

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dear Steve and Shirley, I'm separated from my husband because he cheated on me and the girl he was dating had a miscarriage. He left me and his son to be there for her while she was grieving. Yes, it was his baby. I decided to move on too, and I've been with my new boyfriend for two months. My husband never expected from me to get a boyfriend, and he was shocked when our eleven year old son told him that he's met mommy's boyfriend and he's really tall and he has a basketball court in his backyard. My husband did not like it one bit. He told me that my side piece is off limits to our son, and I had to remind him that his side piece almost had a baby by him, so he can't tell me what to do................................

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dear Steve and Shirley, I'm in the most trifling phase of my life, but it took the last incident to shake some sense into me. I was with the married guy that I deal with occasionally. He told me to stop by to get some money. So I went by his house while his wife was having dinner with her parents. I have my Lyft driver drive by the restaurant so I can make sure her car was still there. I went into the back door of the house and he greeted me in his underwear. He took them off and I had to earn the money. I love stuff like that, so I told my Lyft driver not to wait for me. We had sex on the floor and it was magnificent. He gave me five hundred dollars cash and I was headed out when we heard the garage door going up............................................

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dear Steve and Shirley, I'm married to a man that calls himself a preacher without a church. I call him a motivational manipulator. He goes on Facebook and says he's a prophet, and he sees stuff differently than anyone else. He said he can sense when our dog has indigestion. Everyone in our house can sense it too, because we can smell it, but we humor my husband. He tries to spook our kids into not doing things that he doesn't agree with. My daughter wants to be a Majorrette at her school, and my husband made up a statistic about girls not getting accepted into good schools if they had been shaking their booties in high school...................................... 

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dear Steve and Shirley, I've been with Don for four years, off and on. That kind of threw me because she put his name in there. I've been with Don for four years, oh, on and off. He's a great friend, lover and hard worker, but he's messy. He tells all of his sister's business and his older sister beat him up several years ago. He didn't learn his lesson, and he did it again. His older sister is supposedly an escort, and he decided to share it with their dad, and she showed up but their dad's house and wore my man out. I couldn't stand by and let that happen because he didn't run from her or anything.......................................

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dear Steve and Shirley, I'm thirty nine and divorced. My male cousin is thirty, and he's been staying with me for the past month. I'm in a long distance relationship and I'm usually with my man, so that means my cousin has my house to himself a lot. I trust him, and I don't mind if he has company. But I was shocked to come home early and hear him and his female companion having sex. I heard him as soon as I walked through the door, and his screams made me think he was being attacked, so I was scared to walk back to his bedroom.......................................................

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dear Steve and Shirley, I'm forty seven years old and my husband is seventy four. I used to work for him and we became close over the years, but we never had any romantic interest in each other. His wife passed in 2021 from pneumonia, and I was there for him. I made sure he ate and took his medicine. I got a few ladies from my church to assist me with cleaning out his wife's closets so he could move on. It was a process that took a full year. He told me he was used to seeing me every day, not just at work. He said he liked how I took care of him, and he asked me to have sex.....................................

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dear Steve and Shirley, In 2017 I met a handsome man at a nail salon. He stared at me the entire time so I gave him my card as I left. He called and invited me to his apartment for dinner and we have been together since that night. He’s a big flirt and a bit too outgoing and it’s always bothered me. Two years ago, I started checking his phone and he was always talking to different women. Whenever I called him a flirt, he would say he’s a people person. He works long hours and I don’t get to see him every day so that bothers me too.................

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dear Steve and Shirley, I was dating Mr. Right for almost one year and we got a condo together and looked at rings together. He is a physician and his practice is about an hour from where our condo is. We dated publicly and I met all his friends and his sister. He never gave me any reason to suspect that he was married. He is an avid golfer in his spare time and he usually stays at the resort where he golfs on the weekend.................

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dear Steve and Shirley, I’m a 57 year old single woman but I am dealing with a man that is slightly older than me. He’s a nice man and he just lost his wife so he’s trying to settle down with me. We have great chemistry in the bedroom and that is what’s the most important to me. He matches my freakiness and has taken it to a whole new level but after five months of dating, he said he wants to only do certain things for special occasions................

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dear Steve and Shirley, My husband and I have been married for eleven years and we have our separate spaces in the house. This has helped us cope with the day to day stress of being married. I have a group of friends that I play cards with once a month, but I prefer to be at home, watching movies and reading. My husband is nothing like me. He's very outgoing and he loves to be outside, as he calls it. His need to be outside has caused a lot of problems, and it's the reason he's in trouble. He told me a string of bad lies and I called him out because he thinks I'm stupid. It was almost 2am when my husband came home Sunday morning............................................

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dear Steve and Shirley, My husband and I have an auto detailing shop, but we make the most money with our mobile detailing truck. My husband has been running the mobile detailing business all by himself because he said he can't find anyone that's as good as he is. Most of his mobile customers are single females that don't like going to a car wash. I go by the shop daily to pick up the cash so I can deposit it. I was there the other day and I overheard a female telling my detail shop manager that she had to stop getting mobile detailing because the owner was flirting with her and her husband didn't like it since she was talking about my husband........................................................

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dear Steve and Shirley, I'm thirty eight years old and my husband is forty two. We've been married for six years and his business has taken off in the past three years. He used to be a club promoter and now he owns a lounge with three other guys. I was scared to date a man that's always in the streets, but he's proven that he's just out to get the bag and bring it home so he can spoil me. I trusted him until this past weekend. It was his birthday weekend, so his partners threw him an all white party.....................................

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dear Steve and Shirley, I've been married for thirteen years and my wife and I work from home. I do food deliveries two nights a week just so I can get out of the house and give her some space. She goes walking with ladies in our neighborhood to give me space. I love that she's lost weight and kept it off, and so have I. We don't have sex as much as we used to, but when we do we still have the best chemistry. Everything would seem to be great with us, but it's not because my wife has let herself go in a lot of ways....................................

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dear Steve and Shirley, I’m 51 year old married woman and I’ve been with my husband for 7 years. We met at a rap concert while picking up our daughters who were both 16 at the time. He and I started talking about how we shouldn’t have let our daughters go unchaperoned. My daughter and her friends came out first and he got my number before I walked away. We instantly clicked and he proposed after a year of dating..................

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dear Steve and Shirley, My husband is driving me batty with his occasional drinking and mood swings that come with it. He has embarrassed me for the last time, and I hate that he can never remember what he did or said when he was drunk. On the flip side, he's the sweetest man in the world when he doesn't drink. Saturday, we had an engagement party to go to and my husband started drinking around noon. I could tell that he was going to be a problem because he made a few rude comments about my outfit........................................

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dear Steve and Shirley, My husband and I have been together for three years and married almost one year. When I met him, he was just getting a divorce and he was struggling with being alone. He said he was still really cool with his ex-wife, even after she cheated on him. They have a four year old daughter, so he has no choice but to talk to her to co-parent with her. He's thirty five and his ex-wife is twenty eight. He explained to me that he started dating her when she was twenty two, and when they moved in together, he had to teach her the basics like money management and how to take care of their household. I couldn't imagine how much he had to prepare her to be a mother. He made it sound like she had no home training................................................................

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dear Steve and Shirley, I'm thirty nine years old, and I'm sad to say that I've been a side chick for most of my adult life. I got used to men saying they were in a terrible marriage or they weren't married at all. So I started calling wives and girlfriends of the men that I was sleeping with. Earlier this year, I started going to church regularly, and I was celibate for three months. Then I met a really great guy named Jarvis. Jarvis is my preacher's nephew, so I figured he's a stand up guy. He said he was attracted to me because I'm always smelling good. He said he loves my love handles and the dimples in my butt. He asked me to be his girlfriend, and I got butterflies. I had to investigate him first though. I found him on Facebook and I saw pictures of his skinny girlfriend all over his page..............................

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dear Steve and Shirley, I met a man, we clicked. He showed me his representative for the first few months. Now I see some things that make me wonder if I want to continue our relationship. These are things that I think he can control, but he didn't act like this in the beginning of our relationship. He has no filter in anything he says or does, and his delivery is always so shocking. I took him to meet my mom and he unleashed the madness as soon as we got in her driveway......................................................

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dear Steve and Shirley, I'm a thirty eight year old married woman. This is my second marriage and my husband's first marriage. I have a twenty one year old child and an eighteen year old child, but I felt obligated to have a child with my husband because he didn't have any kids. We've been married four years and we have a three year old daughter. He used to be my world, but now my children are my world. After my daughter's iPad exposed my husband as a cheater, it was caught on videos, so there's no way he can make me believe what I heard was not what I heard. My husband runs a tax prep business and he does the payroll for his brother's business......................................................

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dear Steve and Shirley, I've been married for five years and I had a baby in December, so I'm eager to get these few extra pounds off. Pilates has always been my thing, but my pilates instructor moved to another city. My husband loves his class at the gym, so I asked if it's worth me giving it a try. He said, his class is full and there's a waiting list because his instructor is the best. I'm a member at his gym too, so I went by one day and enrolled in any class I could take. I ended up in a pilates class with a nice older lady. But after one session, I realized I'm too advanced for her class, and she agreed. She suggested I sign up for the other pilates class, so I did. It was just my luck that there was not a waiting list like my husband said there was................................................................

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dear Steve and Shirley, I'm twenty eight years old and dating a man that is five years older than I am. We've been together for eight months and he's someone I can see myself settling down with. He doesn't have any children, so that's a plus for me. The only issue we have is that he has sex with other ladies. He told me that even though he has sex with other women, I'm the only one he spends his time and money. He said, he doesn't want to cheat on me, so he's just getting some things out of the way before he settles down. We talk about marriage and having children together, and he wants to be married before he's forty..........................................................

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dear Steve and Shirley, My husband and I have been married nineteen years and we have two teenage daughters. My husband has seen it all and he has adjusted to bras and the laundry makeup all over the house, and he doesn't mind buying special items for the girls. The girls are totally in love with my younger sister, who's twenty four and care free. She's a nail tech and she's probably sleeping with an older man because she drives an expensive car that her quote man bought. She's a free spirit with a big personality and big wild hair. My husband jokingly calls her a weirdo, and she calls him a nerd............................................

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dear Steve and Shirley, I've been married for three years and I work from home, but I have to travel sometimes for conferences. I often ride with co-workers if it's a short distance. Last week I drove and Don and Calvin from work jumped in with me. I made sure not to tell my husband, who was riding with me, until we got in the car, so I could act like I went up to the office and the guys just happened to end up in my car. My plan worked, and my husband called right as we pulled up to the hotel in Austin. I stayed in my car to take the call while Don and Calvin got our bags. It started raining, so I had to rush off the phone and get into the hotel because I couldn't find my umbrella................................................

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dear Steve and Shirley, My husband and I have been married for nine years. In the beginning, we talked about starting a family, but he wasn't able to make that happen. We went to see a specialist and we were told that his little swimmers are weak. The doctor said he should improve his diet and exercise more often. But my husband made his issue my fault because I cook a lot of red meat and we eat a lot of bread and potatoes. I was so hurt that he blamed that on me. Then sex with him got worse. Gradually, he said it's all my fault because I come to bed partially naked and wearing a scarf over my hair. He said, those visuals don't go together, and he can't perform with me looking unpresentable. That hurt my feelings too. The bottom line is he cannot perform and his main character is smaller than normal......................................................................

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dear Steve and Shirley, I'm a forty four year old married man and I'm in a very high leadership role with my company. My wife and our two children enjoy my annual company picnic, and they've been out of the country twice with me on my work trips. I came from the hood and so did my wife, and we want better for the kids. I've worked at this manufacturing company since I was in the tenth grade, and I worked my way up. My wife and I got married after high school.................................................................

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dear Steve and Shirley, I've been married for seven years, but we are separated. My husband saw text messages and pictures I sent to another man, and he didn't try to work things out with me and see why I was involved with someone else. I have had a boyfriend for a few months and he is a great lover and an excellent provider. I didn't have to ask for a thing. I don't have to ask for a thing or lift a finger when I'm around him. He knows how to treat a woman. My husband, on the other hand, would get upset and call me trifling if I ask him to put gas in my car or wash it for me. My husband didn't care if I was happy with our sex life or not. He only cared if his needs were being met....................................

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dear Steve and Shirley, One of my oldest friends got reacquainted with a girl we went to high school with, and he was so excited that she wants him. He is trying to marry her. My husband and I invited them to dinner, and I purposely did not tell my husband anything about the ladies past. I let him meet her and form his own opinion just from sitting and talking to them for two hours. My husband said that my friend is so caught up by her beauty. There's nothing I can do or say about this girl to make him leave her. This woman is thirty three years old now, and she slowed down a lot and said she's in love with my friend and ready to be a wife............................................................

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dear Steve and Shirley, I'm divorced and my ex husband and I are great at co-parenting. My son is fourteen and my daughter is ten, so she prefers to stay with me and my son prefers to stay with his dad. After we have been divorced seven months, I got a mommy makeover and my ex came and stayed a few nights to help me with the kids. He also drove me to my doctor's appointments and we worked on becoming friends again. Ten months after our divorce, we started having sex again. Then I found out he had a girlfriend and I asked him about it, and he admitted that he was in love with a new chick. I met the woman and she told me they were getting married......................................

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dear Steve and Shirley, My husband and I live in a duplex and his brother and the brother's girlfriend live next to us. I don't get along with a girlfriend, and she knows she will never be welcome in my house. My husband's brother and I are the same age. We're forty six. My husband is fifty eight and he has problems with sleep apnea, so he's been sleeping with a CPAP machine to help him sleep at night. Because of it, I don't have a lot of sex with my husband. I have it with his brother instead. He gives me all of the great sex that I want and need, and we don't even have to sneak around to do it. He comes over after my husband falls asleep, and the sounds of his sleep machine drown out any sounds we're making in the next room.........................................................

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dear Steve and Shirley, My husband and I have been together for twenty five years and married for twenty two. Our youngest daughter finally moved out, and my husband and I hit the road and visited his parents, and then we drove up to Michigan to see my sister and her children. It was a great two weeks of spending quality time with my husband. The only drawback was that we didn't have a lot of sex because his back was hurting. He had his doctor phone in medication for his back and we picked it up as soon as we got back into a few days after the trip, I was still unloading stuff from the back of my husband's SUV. I mistakenly dropped a bunch of things in the driveway and I heard a crash............................................................

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dear Steve and Shirley, I'm almost sixty years old and I've been a live in girlfriend for over twenty years. When my honey and I started dating, he was fresh off a terrible marriage and I was married to an old man that died on me and left me homeless. I had saved up a lot of money and lost it all taking care of him. When he died, his children took what little money he had. So my current honey and I said we'd never get married, but he'd never leave me like the last one did. He makes sure I have access to everything that's his, and he doesn't have any children, so I'm good on that part. We have a comfortable life and he loves to travel...................................................

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dear Steve and Shirley, I'm a thirty nine year old married man. My wife is thirty seven, and she volunteers throughout our community and it's become her life passion. She got fired right after the pandemic because it was too hard for her to keep her composure with her coworkers after all of the Black Lives Matter movement stuff. Every day she comes home ranting. She came home ranting over something a coworker said, and I'm sure she usually took it the wrong way. Currently, she's the director of a nonprofit organization that does gardens in underserved areas of town...............................................................

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dear Steve and Shirley, I'm fifty six years old and my husband will turn seventy five in May. My husband is a great provider and great daddy, but I don't get butterflies when I'm with him like I did in the beginning. I will admit he wooed me with expensive things and I was caught up at first. We met and got married all within a year. I didn't snap back into reality until I met my step son at our wedding a year ago. Now I want my step son more than I want my husband. He's a fifty two year old bachelor and a big flirt............................................

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dear Steve and Shirley, I've been married for nine years and I've been mad at my husband for the last year. For an entire year, he has questioned my faithfulness to him and demanded me to drop friends that I've known longer than I've known him. My husband is projecting his character traits on me. He's a cheater, not me. He is the one that texts women and comments on their pictures on IG while he's in bed next to me. When he started tripping about who I hang with, it set me off. I've known my girl Fay for twenty two years, and I met her cousin, John John about five years ago. We've had Faye and John John over to the house hundreds of times. My husband enjoyed hanging with John John until I told him that John John is Fay's cousin and not her man.....................................................

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dear Steve and Shirley, I met a man online and he's a decent guy that's eight years older than I am. He's fifty nine and divorced and I have never been married. When we met, we talked about everything and I really got to know him. I found out that he's the cafeteria manager at an office building downtown and he loves to cook. He lied on his dating profile and said he's a chef's so I brought that up to him. All he did was brag about his cooking, and he said he's the best chef I'll ever meet. So our first date was a makeshift picnic at a park by my office, and he brought all of the food. My first impression of him was not good.........................................................

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dear Steve and Shirley, The love of my life is a six ' four beautiful man that is black as tar with the straightest teeth I've ever seen. He's a singer with no gigs, but I've been patient with him since we started dating because he's a good man. He's messed up his credit so he doesn't have a car right now. I allow him to use my car when he's going to go sing, and he brings it back on E because I don't want him to use a little money that he has on gas. I'm twenty nine and he's twenty eight. We moved in together and my dad stopped talking to me because he knows my man can't take care of me like he should.......................................

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dear Steve and Shirley, I am the baby girl of two older sisters. My oldest sister lives in a gated community and she's a housewife, but she's not too bright. She's just a rich and a pretty homebody whose husband has been cheating on her for a long time. I felt bad about it for years, but now I feel worse because I have a secret that I can no longer keep. My middle sister is having sex with my brother in law, and I saw it for myself. I stayed over at their house to babysit for them while they had a Christmas party at the house. My nephew and I were upstairs in his room playing a video game, and I heard a lot of banging on the bathroom wall closest to his room....................................................

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dear Steve and Shirley, I'm remarried and I was living my best life until my stepdaughter graduated college and moved back in with her mom. My husband has two children from a previous marriage, and my bonus son is a sweetie. But the girl is a stepdaughter for a reason. She has caused problems in my home from day one. She was sixteen when we got married, and she stayed one weekend at our house and she found my weed stash, wore a brand new shirt of mine, and let a whole roast go to waste because she left it out all night. Her own mother admitted she was being vindictive.........................................

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dear Steve and Shirley, I'm a forty seven year old married man and this is my second marriage. I have a twenty one year old daughter from my first marriage, and my wife has a twelve year old and an eight year old. We're living in a house. We're living in my house, which is four bedrooms and three bathrooms, and it's busting at the seams. My daughter just moved in and she has a one year old son. My wife's children split time between our house and their father's house. I wish they could go live with him full time, but my wife wants them to live with her, which is understandable. I think they should be with their dad.....................................................

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dear Steve and Shirley,  I am a 58 year old single woman.  I have been divorced for four years and my two children are grown.  The man that I have been dating hasn't been honest with me so I need your advice.  We met at a blind date and it was one of the worst dates I have ever been on.  The guy was not feeling well and he kept going to the bathroom.  I told him that I could not see myself going on anymore dates with him and after a few days he started begging me for a second date, I fell for it and went to his house for dinner...........................................

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dear Steve and Shirley, I need your help on how to resolve a big mess with one of my girlfriends. I have a non- profit organization for homeless women and I provide clothing and toiletries for the ladies. I’ve been using part of my living room to sort donations. An old friend of mine recently lost weight and donated her old clothes to my organization. I went by her house to pick up the items and I was happy to see that she had two big black garbage bags full of clothes..............

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dear Steve and Shirley, I've been married for four years, but we have been together six years. My husband charmed me and I was head over heels in love with him. He was always considerate and very loving, but over the years he's become distant in everything that we do. He stopped dating me after the pandemic. We had just got married, and when the world opened back up, he never resumed his duties as my husband. Now we make love and he gets in the shower and then goes to sleep on the sofa. He said it's because I don't like to sleep with the TV on. But I will compromise if he'll stay in the bed with me. I even tried to lure him back in for sex twice in one night, but he said he was tired. When we go out for dinner, we don't have much to talk about, so we talk about whatever's topical on social media.............................................................................

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dear Steve and Shirley, I live in North Carolina, and I'm in a long distance relationship with a man I've known all my life. He's a great man that would never cheat on me because he barely has enough money to take care of the two of us. After dating him for seven years without him having a real plan for our future, I cheated on him. I got a sugar daddy that lives in the same city as my man.  He is a preacher and he's thirty one years older than me. He spoils me with gifts and he knows exactly what he is doing in the bedroom. But I have a potential problem coming up Easter weekend, and I don't know what I should do..................

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dear Steve and Shirley, I'm thirty three years old and I moved back to my hometown two months ago. My dad is ill and my mother is doing the best she can to take care of him, at least that's what she told me. I kicked right in and started taking Daddy to the doctor and to get his medication. When I couldn't do it because of work, Daddy had another woman taking him, and I thought she was some kind of nurse or assistant that his insurance provided. My mom said it was just a lady that my dad knows.....................................

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dear Steve and Shirley, I think my husband is cheating on me. I found out after a woman called me and said my husband was late on her car payments. She said they've been having sex for almost a year and bought her a car. He bought her a car for her birthday last August. She said that she started dating another man in October and my husband got mad and said he would take the car away from her. She said she kept dating her boyfriend, but she was still sleeping with my husband..........................................

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dear Steve and Shirley, I'm forty four and my partner is forty eight. We've been together for thirteen years total and living together for the past nine years. He's been married before, so he didn't want to get married again. I have never seen a great marriage, so I'm not big on the institution of marriage either. Even now, nothing but married men hit on me. I'm a realist and I know that ninety eight percent of men cheat, so I've tried not to stress out over what my partner is doing when he's not with me.............................................

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dear Steve and Shirley, I am newly divorced and dating again at fifty three years old. My aunt set me up with a handsome, bald man that has a great smile but a quirky personality. I cannot figure out what's up with him until recently. He's a school administrator and he does educational videos for the school district, so he's really into how he looks. On our first date, he told me that he bleaches his teeth regularly and he gets fillers in his face. We have been dating four months and he still won't tell me how old he is, but he looks like he's slightly older than I am........................................................

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dear Steve and Shirley, I'm a thirty four year old married woman and I'm staying at my cousin's house temporarily while I'm working on a project in Austin. My cousin is fifty two and her husband is forty eight. My room is on the other side of their house, by the kitchen. I've heard my cousin's husband on the phone mumbling late at night, damn near every night since I've been staying with them. He's usually on the couch every night until 3am, and then he goes to bed. My cousin is up and out early in the morning for work, and then her hubby is free to FaceTime some woman that has an annoying laugh........................................

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dear Steve and Shirley, I moved to a new city and I met a man at my apartment complex. He doesn't live there, his sister does. He asked me to go out, and our first date was so good that he wanted to show me around town. We became inseparable, but we haven't had sex or put a title on our relationship. It's been three months and I'm sexually attracted to him, so I asked if we were dating?..................................................

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dear Steve and Shirley, I'm forty years old and married to an older man. He's an entrepreneur and I'm in the insurance field. He's out and about rubbing elbows with big wigs every day, at least that's how he describes his line of work. He dabbles in real estate and he owns a few parking lots and he just acquired another one. When he's at home, he's sleep or he's on his computer. We used to cook at home together and watch movies. That was our thing............................................

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dear Steve and Shirley, I'm a fifty eight year old married man. I'm a dump truck driver. I retired from teaching after thirty years in the classroom. I was only fifty five, so I decided to reinvent myself and get back to work. I was talking one of my homeboys that has a hauling business. I hadn't talked to him in years. One day I ran up into him and he was telling me how he bought a truck and he gets a lot of business hauling dirt, tree limbs, and debris, and he sets his own rates. He said he already made twenty seven thousand this year and it's only March. I went to my wife with the idea of buying a truck and taking a class to become a certified driver.....................................................

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dear Steve and Shirley, My husband and I met and immediately fell in love. I'm twenty eight and he's thirty four. I met him at work and he relocated and asked me to come with him after we had known each other for only two and a half months. Everything was rosy back then, and all I could think about was getting married and having babies with curly hair like his. My fairy tale life lasted for almost a year.......................................

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dear Steve and Shirley, I love my husband with all of my heart, but I do not like him, and I don't like being around him. I cannot have a conversation without him weighing the pros and cons of what I'm telling him. For example, prom season is coming and our son has a date, but our daughter chose to go to the prom with a group of girls. He tried to get my daughter to ride to the prom with our son, and I had to shut that down. He thought of every reason in the world to keep my daughter from doing her junior prom her way. When we are out with friends, he can't decide which credit card he is going to use because one card gives him perks and the other one has a better interest rate..............................................

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dear Steve and Shirley, I’m a 33 year old married woman and I’ve been with my husband for 8 years, married for 5. My husband just found out that my male best friend is my ex-boyfriend. I also have a female best friend that I used to have threesomes with. We are all close and they loved my husband and he loved them. I was on FaceTime with my best friend the other night and he mentioned a tattoo on my lower back and said he remembered when I got it.................

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dear Steve and Shirley, My husband and I have been together for fourteen years and married for ten. After our third child, we gained a little too much weight, so when our toddler started school, we started to work out. My husband has lost a lot more weight than I have, but I am glad that my clothes are fitting again. I have to hear my sweet husband bragging about losing more weight than he imagined he would. I have to smile when he flexes his flabby arm muscle in my face like he's Hulk Hogan...........................................

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.