Dear LFTP: the loneliest married woman
- I'm a 61-year-old woman feeling like the loneliest married woman I know because of my husband's health and withdrawal: should I stay or go?
Mike reads a letter from a 61-year-old woman whose 65-year-old husband's severe back issues have left them isolated, him controlling the TV, her feeling like the loneliest married woman she knows: should she stay or go? The room offers practical fixes (a second TV, a chiropractor, a better bed, church community), and Bryce's advice, 'I think the woman should just get a dog,' becomes the episode's title moment. The hosts land on stay: the husband reads as depressed and at his worst, which is when love has to push past the hurt, and they warn against treating surface fixes as the real cure. Secular's answer, buying a TV for a room the husband doesn't sleep in, is panned.
More on Marriage
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Dear LFTP: the spontaneous husband and the 7 p.m. date
- My spontaneous husband starts a project at 5 p.m., fails to cancel our 7 p.m. date, and shows up late in work clothes. Please advise.
Mike reads the second letter: a planner wife of two years whose spontaneous husband started a household project at 5 p.m., agreed to cancel their 7 p.m. date, never told the other couple, then showed up 45 minutes late in work clothes.
From No. 601 · Humble Faithful Idiot
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Dear LFTP: the basement musician whose wife never asks him to play
- Am I asking too much to expect my wife to ask me to play, or should I just let it go and stop writing songs?
Mike reads a letter from a married-31-years basement musician and songwriter whose non-musical wife has never once asked him to play — he wonders if he's asking too much or should stop writing.
From No. 597 · Maybe A Word From God
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Dear LFTP: the reluctant grandmother
- Am I wrong to prefer not to drive an hour and a half to visit my husband's grandbabies?
Mike reads a Dear LFTP letter from a 56-year-old married twelve years who doesn't want to drive an hour and a half to visit her husband's grandbabies — she's 'not into babies or children' — and can't understand why he won't stop asking.
From No. 596 · Mr. Prayer Closet
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Dear LFTP: the incarcerated husband
- My husband is serving a life sentence and I have met someone new — what should I do?
- How would you counsel the incarcerated husband who wants to divorce his wife to free her from the marriage?
Mike reads a heavier letter: the writer's husband is serving a life sentence with the possibility of parole, having turned himself in a year and a half ago for a crime from…
From No. 596 · Mr. Prayer Closet