Trula

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 [...]

Brian and I like to have a date once a week, it really helps us connect. Usually we do something on the night his mom gets the boys, but this past week and today his work schedule and mine coincided where we can meet for lunch. I’m so excited! We’re going to meet at the [...]

Recently Brian and I went to a beach and hung out. One of the joys of our marriage is getting to spend time alone together but with kids, work, etc. it’s sometimes hard to get our time in. We had a really nice time, hanging out, swimming in the lake. Just he & I. This [...]

We got back this past Sunday from our vacation in Maine, where we spent 9 days. It was awesome! We had a great time. This photo is from our 5th day in Maine. We left Mount Desert Island, where we were visiting Brian’s aunt and uncle, to go back to Booth Bay Harbor where we [...]

Question I got via email:My mother-in-law does a special birthday for my kids at her house even though we throw them a birthday party at our house. Isn’t this rude, isn’t she overstepping her bounds? How do I politely tell her to stop? My MIL does this, and it used to be on my silly [...]

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 [...]

For a couple of reasons I don’t talk about our sex life, one being that some things are private and two being that it would just attract a lot of creepers to this blog. But I will say this: sex is a very powerful experience for us. I am truly blessed that my husband is [...]

I am so in love with my husband, I think he is super-fine even with food on his face. ^_^ This blog entry written by Trula Breckenridge. Thanks for visiting Musing Monogamy!

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 [...]

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 [...]

Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended ~ Zsa Zsa Gabor This is too true! Pay attention to your husband. more thoughts on this to come. This blog entry written by Trula Breckenridge. Thanks for visiting Musing Monogamy!

Brian and I met December 1994 and our first date was Valentine’s Day 1996. Ever since it has been our special holiday. So today I will list some things I dig about Brian. If I had to pick one quality that I admire and love about my husband, it would be his aura of calmness. [...]

I got a question from a woman in a monogamous marriage asking me how do I feel about crushes. Well, hmmm. I think it’s perfectly natural and reasonable to be attracted to other people. Just don’t give them too much head space. I have to laugh because I had a crush on Lenny Kravitz for [...]

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 [...]

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 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 [...]

Brian & I, just hanging out, watching TV.

My husband Brian is really cool. I don’t think he knows how much I love and appreciate him. I should tell him more often. I am just as lucky to have him as he is to have me. He has brought a lot of stability to my life compared to when I was a single [...]

I want to share this book with you all. I have found it to be very helpful for me as I grow and develop as a person. don Miguel Ruiz is a wonderful person whose words have had a tremendous impact on my consciousness. “Everything we do is based on agreements we have made – [...]

Here I am with Brian in 1996. Sometimes it is hard for me to see how we have changed (gotten older) but in this photo I can see it clearly, especially with him. Look how young he is! My sweetie.

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 [...]

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 [...]

I want to tell you, to take advice on here with a grain of salt. The only people who really know what’s going on in a marriage are the two people involved in it. There are many sources of conflict in marriages, for example money is the #1 cause of divorce in the United States, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

I will share some things that helped us. When Brian and I were going to get divorced a couple of years ago but decided to stay together we got a lot of feedback from others and a lot of helpful advice. One of the best things I was told and I learned to apply to [...]

Our new comforter set; I love it because it’s so gold and shiny, it cracks me up! the non-shiny side is very plush and soft and comfy against the skin, too. Next step to improving our sleeping space: the walls See more progress on: Create a nurturing love nest with my partner

Here are some other marriage-related blogs or websites. I will add to this list regularly so check back soon! A Perfect MarriageBrian & RubySave the MarriageWedding Bee Blogs on Interracial MarriageAngry Black CatBeautiful Black Women, Happily Interracially Married

Ok! I just decided to call this blog the marriage blog, LOL.

I’m pondering a name change for this blog as I don’t really like Mythical Marriage…any suggestions?