Marriage
578 conversations where the hosts get into marriage.
578 conversations
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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
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Dear LFTP 1: the fiance who impulse-bought Butch the dog
- Dear LFTP: my fiance impulse-bought a dog I did not want, and I resent him — what do I do?
Mike reads the first letter: a woman's fiance talked her into "just looking" at puppies, then put money on the counter over her objections — now they have Butch, an active breed neither has time for, and she resents him.
From No. 595 · Trust But Verify
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Dear LFTP: the angry husband
- Am I wrong for putting my kids and grandkids first? What can I do?
A host reads a Dear LFTP letter from a woman married twelve years to a formerly alcoholic, now angry and hostile husband; she asks whether she's wrong to put her kids and grandkids first and consider divorce.
From No. 592 · Because I Got High
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Dear LFTP: secret texting with a friend's wife
- My boyfriend keeps a secret texting relationship with a married friend who asked him not to tell me. What should I do?
Mike reads a letter from a woman whose boyfriend maintains a private, secret texting relationship with a married friend who asked him not to tell her, even though the friend and her husband are in marriage counseling.
From No. 587 · Coffee After Sunday
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Dear LFTP: the inheritance and the controlling husband
- Should a mother leave an inheritance to a daughter whose controlling husband will control it?
The second letter comes from a mother whose daughter married a controlling, rude husband; she wonders whether to leave a sizable inheritance knowing he will control it.
From No. 584 · When Vanek Was Here | Cambodia Testimony, Church Mission, Josiah Queen
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Dear LFTP: husband's slot-machine addiction and a lost life's savings
- How should an 80-something wife respond when her husband's slot-machine addiction gambled away everything?
A letter from a woman in her eighties: her husband developed a slot-machine addiction, gambled away every asset from 58 years of marriage, and their son bailed them out as trustee of the land and home while doling out a tiny allowance.
From No. 581 · Silly Rabbit | Christianity, Culture, and Navigating Social Expectations
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Dear LFTP: forty years of a cheating wife and a temptation
- Would it be wrong to rekindle an old friendship for intimacy when my wife has cheated for forty years?
A man approaching his fortieth anniversary writes that his wife has always been a serial cheater, a secret he kept to protect the children's view of her; with retirement and a sexless marriage he asks whether rekindling things with old female friends would be wrong.
From No. 581 · Silly Rabbit | Christianity, Culture, and Navigating Social Expectations
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Dear LFTP: the high-school sweetheart and the oil-rig romance scam
- What should I do about my high-school sweetheart, who cut me off after I warned her that her online relationship is a romance scam?
Mike reads a letter from a man in his sixties who, after his fortieth high school reunion, reconnected on Facebook with his old high-school sweetheart, helped her financially for…
From No. 580 · Not Sure | Old Testament Law, Holy Spirit Guidance, Christian Discernment
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Dear LFTP: the husband in his undos and #nakedDan
- Should my husband wear more than his underwear when our granddaughter visits?
Mike reads a letter from a woman in her sixties: at home her husband wears just his "undos" — watching TV, eating dinner — and with their 2.5-year-old granddaughter coming to stay, she wonders whether he should wear a shirt and shorts since he values the hosts' opinion.
From No. 580 · Not Sure | Old Testament Law, Holy Spirit Guidance, Christian Discernment
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Telling your spouse about past sin: pornography, the granola bar, and the Holy Spirit
- If you have repented of a sin your spouse never knew about, do you have to tell them?
The hosts work through whether a repented-of sin a spouse never knew about must be confessed: a pornography habit versus a stolen granola bar from fifteen years ago.
From No. 579 · Wanted: Paul and Hope | Paul’s Persecution of Christians and Radical Redemption
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Dear LFTP: is there any hope for our joyless mid-fifties marriage?
- Is there any hope for our marriage — we're past our mid-fifties, we love each other, but we live two separate lives?
Mike reads a Dear LFTP letter from a couple edging past their mid-fifties: three kids and three grandkids later, they still love each other but live two separate lives, rarely touch, and wonder if this is the rest of their lives.
From No. 579 · Wanted: Paul and Hope | Paul’s Persecution of Christians and Radical Redemption
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Dear LFTP: wife mocks husband's bladder problem in public
- How should I respond when my wife mocks me and my bladder problem in public?
Mike reads a letter from a man married three years whose wife calls him vulgar names in public and makes his bladder-control problem into comedy.
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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?
From No. 576 · Get A Dog
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Dear LFTP: the wedding-gift cash and the missing thank-you
- Tell me, was I wrong? (wedding-gift cash and the missing thank-you note)
Mike reads a Dear LFTP letter from a woman who gave $300 cash at a destination wedding by handing the envelope to a bartender, then asked her friend six months later whether the couple received it, and wonders if she was wrong to ask.
From No. 575 · Heartfelt Heresy
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Dear LFTP: 'Am I a fool for staying?' after Andy's affair
- Am I a fool for trying to work out my marriage after my husband Andy's affair?
A Dear LFTP letter: the writer's husband Andy began a government job five years ago, took a mistress, and is now ambivalent about the marriage; three kids (14, 11, 9); joint counseling.
From No. 569 · Up Late
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Dear LFTP: ending a friendship or ghosting the young couple
- Should I ghost an unwanted friendship or tell them honestly I want to end it?
A listener wants to end a relationship with a younger couple who guilt-tripped them into visits, now with toddlers she dislikes; her husband disagrees and wants to keep up the charade.
From No. 568 · Like Jesus
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Dear LFTP: nephew Will's fast-moving rebound relationship
- Is there a tactful way to caution my nephew about his fast-moving new relationship after a painful divorce?
Ben tells Mike to give the advice; Mike reads a letter asking whether there's a tactful way to caution nephew Will — blindsided at his 25th anniversary dinner when his wife said…
From No. 567 · Talk Less
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Dear LFTP: excluded from the neighbors' dinner invitation
- Am I overreacting that my husband went to the neighbors' dinner without me?
A wife of 20+ years writes that neighbors invited her husband alone to dinner to thank him for yard work, he went without her, then talked about the evening with their son as if she weren't there.
From No. 567 · Talk Less
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Dear LFTP: the mumbling husband and long-marriage patience
- How can I get my mumbling husband to speak up so I can hear him?
A woman 'amicably' married 16 years is exasperated that her husband mumbles, talks from other rooms, and won't speak up despite her normal hearing test.
From No. 567 · Talk Less
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Dear LFTP: the marijuana marriage letter
- My soon-to-be-70 husband has taken up daily marijuana, says he's addicted, and after ~50 years of marriage I'm considering divorce — what should I do?
Mike reads the Dear LFTP letter (per the show's Mike-reads anchor; diarized under speaker-0, a merge): a wife says her soon-to-be-70 husband, in good shape, has taken up daily marijuana, says he's addicted, and after ~50 years of marriage she is considering divorce.
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Dear LFTP: husband on the oil rig and a spinal surgery
- How do I communicate with my neglectful husband without causing issues, and am I wrong to be upset?
A letter describes a husband who works twenty days a month on an oil rig, spends his home time on his phone, and left his wife alone with friends a few hours after her spinal…
From No. 562 · Enter the McCormick II