22 years later, couple still dines together every morning at OU Inn

When Jim Bruning retired after 35 years of working, he decided to give his wife a gift — anything she asked for.

“All I want is to have breakfast with you at the College Inn every day,” Marlene Bruning responded.

So, every day for the past 22 years, the Brunings have eaten breakfast together at Cutler’s Restaurant in the Ohio University Inn.

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Couple has celebrated more than 50 Valentine’s Days

In their 50-plus years of marriage, Juanita and John “Ralph” Shaw have been never missed a Valentine’s Day together. And, barring some unforeseen circumstance, today will no different — even though they live miles apart from one another.

For the past seven years, Ralph Shaw, 82, has maintained the couple’s Jacksonville home while Juanita, 90, resides at the Lindley Inn Assisted Living Community in The Plains. Juanita suffered a stroke about 15 years ago. Ralph took care of his wife for the next eight years, before she made the move to the assisted living facility.

Despite the miles between them, Ralph visits his beloved every single day, and today he will come bearing a Valentine’s gift for his wife — yellow roses.

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Spousal Support: Coaches find comfort and understanding in significant others

Coaching collegiate athletics is anything but a typical 9-to-5 job. The hours are long and late, intense and unforgiving. There is little time off and even fewer sick days. The position is rewarding yet can become unreasonably harsh within the blink of an eye.

When weight training conflicts with picking up the groceries or a recruiting trip falls on an important birthday, there has to be someone to pull everything together.

Those late nights that Herb Brooks, coach of the 1980 United States “Miracle” Olympic champion hockey team, made famous aren’t a figment of the imagination or embellished in the corresponding film — they’re a reality.

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Time: Single and too busy to mingle - Schedules, schoolwork supersede socialization

With relationship statuses posted on Facebook for the world to see, college students have become acutely aware of where they fall on the relationship spectrum.

The range of statuses —in a relationship, it’s complicated, engaged, in a domestic partnership or married — can be seen on the Facebook pages of Ohio University students.

For some, though, single is the only way to go.

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