Gift Giving for Brian
My best find: I found Turnbury sweaters on ebay!! These sweaters are so incredibly warm yet lightweight, they are wonderful. They are a cashmere/silk blend and retail for $150-175, so I would never have got hip to them, right, but my husband got one for $7 at an outlet store. We had been sharing it [...]
Happy Father’s Day Brian
Brian opening one of his Father’s Day presents, a reciprocating saw. Our sons got up early and cooked him breakfast (our daughter had to work); scrambled eggs, blueberry pancakes from scratch, and peeled pink grapefruit. Then we went to his cousin’s farm for the day, it was a great day This blog entry written by [...]
We Celebrated Our 9th Anniversary
Brian and I recently celebrated our 9th marriage anniversary! I’ve been very plugged into the planning for our big 10th renewal vows ceremony next year, almost let this one slip by. My sweetie did not forget. Brian, I love you so much. This blog entry written by Trula Breckenridge. Thanks for visiting The Marriage Blog [...]
How I Got My Husband to Help with Housework
Many wives complain about their husbands not doing their fair share of housework or helping them with housework. What follows is what worked for me. Doing this made so much difference in my marriage, you just don’t know. I like my house clean and tidy and my husband wouldn’t pick up after himself, it used [...]
Nine Years Still Going Strong
2008 marks our ninth year of being married, twelfth year of being together, and 14th year of knowing each other. That’s a lot of history, most of it good, and I’m excited about the future. My main marriage goals for this year are organizing our wedding renewal vows ceremony for next year and working on [...]
The Life of Wife Blog
I posted on the blog Life of Wife last year. It’s a community blog about being a wife: It is funny and challenging, exhaustive and complex, simple and enraging, beautiful and bland. It is everything you think and nothing you can imagine. But if you listen you will hear the sounds of a magic that [...]
The Happy Husband
The Happy Husband looks like an interesting blog about marriage, gonna read more into it: We live in a culture that is hostile to marriage as a lifelong commitment between a man and a woman. It celebrates weddings, yes, but it also celebrates divorces. Why wouldn’t it? We hear more about happy divorces than we [...]
More Thoughts on Interracial Marriage Blogs
Did you get a chance to read my prior post Thoughts on Interracial Marriage Blogs? If not, please check it out. It appears Black Female Interracial Marriage closed her blog to public view in response to my post. Perhaps I am wrong in that assumption, but the timing seems awfully close. If so, while I [...]
Thoughts on Interracial Marriage Blogs
I’ve been surfing around the net reading some BW/WM IR blogs. That’s black woman/white man interracial for those of you not in the know, LOL. Something about these blogs rub me the wrong way and I am not sure why…surely it is ok for people in mixed marriages to celebrate their marriages like any other [...]
You Are the Expert on Your Life, Even While Married
Sometimes I used to get in a mood and demand of my husband to tell me what I should do about a particular work problem or changes I should make to improve my personality. This happened when I felt stressed with work or frustrated with my writing and business. I was reading through old journals [...]
About Trula & Brian
My name is Trula Breckenridge and I’m a happily married woman who lives in northeast Ohio, USA, with my husband Brian. I am a writer and Brian is a teacher. Everyone always asks us, How did you two meet? with great puzzlement. It’s no big mystery, we met like many other couples: in college, we [...]




