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By Trula • September 5th, 2009

It is a waste of time trying to change a man’s character. You have to accept your husband as he is.
Queen Elizabeth II
One of the greatest gifts my husband gave to me was acceptance. From the start, he accepted me for me, flaws and all. and I him, from the start I’ve thought he was [...]

We’re finally selling our old 1994 Geo. Took some pics to put on craigslist. It runs but needs lots of work and has two flat tires. Would be great as a Cash for Clunkers Trade-in! $600 OBO. Interested? contact trubreck at gmail dot com

We had a great 4th of July!
More July 4th 2009 pics

Time is flying by! so many things have happened this year so it’s looking like next year will have to be our renewal vows ceremony…I really wanted it to be during our 10th year married but this takes a lot of pressure off of me. Now I have time to relax and really plan it [...]

Here we are

In case you haven’t seen this video here is a link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrnNC5toyeo
(all the ones I found the embedding was disabled)
When I first saw this video I was shocked! because um, isn’t Beyonce married, and a conservative christian woman to boot? so…huh?
Call me old-fashioned but what married woman, what religious woman puts her business on front [...]

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Cover of the card I got for Mercury Man for Valentine’s day, I think these cats are soooooo cute!
Today Brian and I share our 13th Valentine’s Day together.
The power of love is a beautiful thing.
Happy Valentine’s Day to you and yours!

PIC: Brian with one of his cameras. I am feeling very bitter towards him lately because he refuses to move. This weather is very hard on me. What can I do? I’m a woman in love.
he’s lucky he’s so cute

PICS: Brian is a teacher and recently his school got moved to a brand new building. We went to go see it on the final weekend before it opened up for students. This is his classroom. I am so proud of him! He is a good teacher and cares [...]

PICS: Brian is a great cook and he likes making crock pot meals. This is his first chili in the crock pot I got him for Christmas

How on earth did I miss this! I don’t know if it’s because we’re in the midst of planning our renewal vows, if it’s because I like weddings, if it’s because I believe in love and the power of marriage, or what, but this had me crying by the end. This guy did an 8-hour [...]

It’s either going to be June 20th or June 27th, 2009. Here it is mid-January and that’s about the bulk of planning we have done so far. Egads! See, this is why we went to the courthouse in the first place 10 years ago, planning a wedding is soooo much pressure.

For Christmas Brian got me a digital camera:

He also got me the Pac Man game to play on Xbox! Old school! I LOVE pac man, it’s one of the few video games I can understand LOL.
I got him a table saw:

I also got him a 6.6 quart crockpot. He likes to make chili and stuff, [...]

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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 [...]

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 years, to [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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?

This is a funny page I came across that shows common sleeping positions of couples:Sleeping Positions of CouplesThe funniest is the last one, it cracked us up so much, LOL. Which is your most common position? We vary between spooning and the Zen style.

My husband is still such a slob. I do not understand this about him or about anybody else who is a slob. It’s like he has no sense of aesthetics or like clutter and mess doesn’t bother him. He piles all his stuff all over both dressers and throws his clothes around on the floor. [...]

I’d love to get suggestions and feedback about this blog including what you’d like to see. I’m going to start posting this query for feedback monthly, so if you don’t have any suggestions right now but think of some later you can always let me know next month. I’m so excited about this blog because [...]

Practically speaking, if you and your beloved live together first, that can be a good indication of what it will be like when you are married. You learn as much about yourself as you do about the other person when you live with them. Being with each other every day will teach you both what [...]

“If you don’t watch her, she’s going to be hot in the pants”
my maternal grandmother said, talking with my mom one day about me. I had wandered over near my grandmother’s kitchen door after running around with my cousins. Always the slowest runner because of being knock-kneed and having breathing issues due to allergies, I [...]

While my relationship with my children is very very very important to me, I think it is important and necessary that I am able to love and devote myself to someone other than them. Otherwise I will be a wreck when they are grown and have a life independent of me. I know women like [...]

1. You know when their physical characteristics become irrelevant – you can look at your partner and truly feel that it wouldn’t matter to you if they lost a limb or got badly burned or scarred or whatever.
2. You know when you want to raise children with them. If you don’t want kids, you’ll know [...]