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Strawberry Letter

My Husband's Friend Can't Stay Here

Strawberry Letter

iHeartPodcasts

Relationships, Society & Culture

4.51.7K Ratings

🗓️ 7 September 2020

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

Dear Steve and Shirley, I am a very happily married woman in my early 50s and I have an issue with my husband’s long-time friend and fraternity brother. My husband’s friend lives in another state for work, but he loves to come visit all his buddies in the city that my husband and I live in. When he comes to town, he would take turns staying at different friends’ houses. His first visit to our new home was earlier this year and he stayed the entire weekend and that was okay, as a one-time deal..........

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0:31.2

Here it is. The strawberry letter. Subject, my husband's friend cannot stay here. Dear Stephen Shirley, I am a very happily married woman in my early 50s, and I have an issue with my husband's long-time

0:37.3

friend and fraternity brother.

0:39.3

My husband's friend lives in another state for work, but he loves to come visit all his buddies in the city that my husband and I live in.

0:46.3

When he comes to town, he would take turn staying at different friend's houses.

0:51.3

His first visit to our new home was earlier this year, and he stayed

0:55.2

the entire weekend, and that was okay, as a one-time deal. Since then, he started alerting my husband

1:03.3

that he would be in town and would need a place to crash. We're all a tight-knit group of friends,

1:09.9

and I know he wore out his welcome at another couple's home, so he set his sights on our house.

1:15.1

I told my husband that I am totally against him thinking our home is his weekend getaway.

1:20.7

This put me and my husband at extreme odds, and my husband told me that he feels like it's not his home because I make the rules.

1:28.3

My husband claims he's making up excuses whenever his friend mentions he's coming to town.

1:33.6

I think that my husband is being absolutely ridiculous.

1:37.1

We're adults in a nice new home, not a frat house.

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