*Updated w/Winners* Congrats to random comments #33 Crayl and #104 Nicole at Team Pipkin!
I was feeling lazy. I needed my computer cord and didn’t want to go into the other room.
My hubby was catching up on expense reports for work.
Knowing full-well that I was choosing myself over him, I interrupted him and asked: “Honey, would you go get my computer cord?”
Oh, yes, I did.
He looked at me.
And made a choice.
He got up and returned a few seconds later, even plugging it in for me.
“Thanks,” I said sheepishly. “I should have done it myself since you were busy.”
“Do you know why I did it?”
I shook my head.
“Because earlier today you went out of your way to do something for me. I wanted to,” he said.
Do you know how much that little act meant to me? You can bet I did something nice for him at the very next opportunity!
Love is a cycle. But there are two paths: giving and going the extra mile; or repaying one negative with another.
Marriage is a give and take. We can’t be the only one giving, or always taking. Don’t get me wrong, we’ve been known to scream, “GET IT YOURSELF!” and both felt yucky.
Today, I challenge you to go the extra mile in your marriage.
Union28 sent me the coziest hoodie to review the other day. I wore it to my son’s last YMCA flag football game.
I love wearing love on my sleeve.
Union 28 is giving away TWO $25 gift certificates-winner’s choice of awesome shirts!
P.S.
Sale!
There are some great shirts on clearance and if you use the coupon code on the ad in my sidebar, you can really get a deal! 
Please leave a comment telling how long you’ve been married as your entry.
This giveaway ends Thursday.
6 yrs
My husband and I are just starting out. We were married only 53 days ago!!! It doesn’t seem like it has been that long but at the same time it feels like it has been longer (in a good way!!) He is amazing and I am looking forward to our future together.
I love those hoodies….I have chronic pain and my husband is a real keeper. He helps me so much…we have been married for 19 years…seems just like yesterday….I love him so
Couldn’t live my life to the fullest without the other side of me! We’ve been married 5 years, 4 months, and 22 days! We just recently celebrated our fifth anniversary by bringing our third child into the world on that very day! A very special day to celebrate LOVE in so many ways!!!
LOVE, LOVE the sweatshirt! and I need a new one since my hubby threw all of mine out from last winter!
I love these hoodies, I want one!!! My husband is not one for wearing shirts with logos, but he has seen their line of shirts that say My Wife Rocks and he actually said he would love to wear one! I am a part of your challenge daily and I have to say that as we began our life together, we naturally did things for each other without even thinking about it. Even now I am so blessed that I think about what a gift he is many times a week. We have been married 8 years now and each one has been a present to unwrap together! : )
Oh my goodness, seriously not five minutes ago I was on the Union 28 website looking at… My husband rocks sweatshirts! I LOVE the idea of the website and wearing positive messages about our spouses for everyone to see. My husband and I have been married for seven years, and he both literally and figuratively rocks; he is the worship pastor of our church, and he’s an amazing man, husband, and father. <3
17 1/2 amazing years!
12 years to the most patient man on the planet. I’m blessed!
43 years. (Same man.) Yes Give and take and always going the extra mile. I love your blog and your testimony of your faith.
How awsome! When there is so much “junk” in this world that our eyes see a “my husband rocks” is a WELCOMED SITE!
12 wonderful years!
17 awesome, wonderful ,wouldn’t trade him for anything, would definitely do it all over again years!!! Thank you so much!
Great giveaway! 11 years on 11/27!
12 years, 4 months, 5 days!
We’ve been married 7 years!!!
together 15, married 12!!
20 years next April!
We’ve been married 10 years. The first 4 were the hardest ever!! We were 27 when we married, set in our ways at such a “young” age! I love him more now than I did when we were first engaged!
17 years – 18 next month.
we’ve been married 4 years, 3 months and 4 days!!
17 years – 18 next month. It’s hard to believe.
I love the hoody, but I love my hubby more! Married 7 years.
We’ve been married 6 years…. here’s to 60 more.
Love that story! And, I love that hoodie. We’ve been married 19 years and I’d love to tell the world that my husband rocks.
I’ve been married 2 1/2 years – and I love it
I love the hoodie. We have been married 18 years!!
Married 5 years and looking forward to many, many more!
We’ve been married a year and a half- but he was in Afghanistan for a year of it so it still feels like we’re complete newlyweds
We’ve been married for 9 years but together for 12. I really don’t know how I would live without him. We definitely compliment each other. I love the sweatshirt! My husband would love it if I had a sweatshirt that actually fits me. I stole his NC State sweatshirt a couple of years ago and it’s huge on me. He hates when I wear it. (so I don’t leave the house with it on)
yay–i’ve been wanting one of their shirts for awhile now! 6 1/2 wonderful years!!
I love this blog! I don’t comment often, but I read you often! My hubby and I have been married 5 1/2 years.
Nine years: ) and I love sporting Union 28 apparel!!
9 years in January!
We’ve been married 31 years!
Married for 11 years!
Almost 17 years and I totally think he rocks!
Isnt’ this post the t-r-u-t-h! I totally have those moments of selfishness but get irritated when he does! My husband’s amazing and we’ve been married a little over 16 years
We have been married for almost 10 years!
Oh Man!! Union 28 is a place we are looking forward to ordering from as soon as we can!!!
We’ve been married 8 years!!
This year we celebrated 11 years. Love is a choice that we make daily.
Over 21 years!
And I love him even more today!
I’m blessed to be his wife and the mother of his children!
1 1/2 years
14 years
We’ve been married 9 1/2 years! What a great journey it has been!
This Dec. will be 17 years!
My husband and I will have been married for 3 years at the end of this March. I can’t believe it’s been that long! On the other hand, I can’t believe it’s only been that long!
15 years this December
10 years!!!!!!!!
4 years and counting!
12 and 1/2 years….feels like yesterday and forever ago!
I’ve been married for 9 happy years!!! And I love Union 28 stuff.
I love the hoodie! We’ve been married 6.5 years next month
I’ve been married 8 wonderful years. We even made it beyond the “seven year itch” with no problems!
4.5 years….And loving it!
just celebrated 11 years married last month…but have known each other for 23!
Together 17.
Married 15.
It finally feels as though we’ll survive each other
Don’t know if I could own such a hoodie, though — it would go straight to his head
*teasing… sort of*
8 years next week
16 wonderful years.
We’ve been married ten years and in the next few days we will have our 6th sweet baby.
Married for 13 blissful (most of the time!) years!!!
We have been married for five years, six months and three days.
We try to celebrate half years too, otherwise I wouldn’t have a clue how many days. 
we have been married 9 years….big 1-0 in May
We have been married 4 years. We just celebrated our anniversary last month!!
11 years!!!!
16+ glorious years! Seriously. The only hard times (for our marriage, not for life in general) was the first 6 months. Whew. Communication crash course.
18 years this Sunday! Been thru thick and thin and everything in between!
10 years and have 3 kids (3 years old and under). My husband truly does rock! Your post reminds me of the book Love Languages which has been key in helping our relationship stay strong.
My husband and I have been married for 8 years…TODAY! This would be an awesome anniversary gift!
My husband & I have been married 12 years. We have three really great kids! And even if our everyday life isn’t always like an excerpt from a Hallmark card, it is my kind of perfect!!!
3 and 1/2 years! (but together for a total of almost 10 years) – We’re only 25!
9 years last week.
been married to my best friend, a man who is an awesome father, a kind heart to all around him….God has truly blessed me the past 14 1/2 years!!
mae
We have been married 9 years.
I married my high school sweatheart 9 years ago and we have 2 wonderful boys. My husband ROCKS for sure!
I have a “My Husband Rocks” tee that I LOVE but it’s now two years old. I could use a new one! I’ve been married for 11 years and every year gets better and better!
16 years this month!
5 years, 3 months and 3 days
16 years this past July 2nd!
6 years and loving it! P.S. I love Union28′s stuff — it’s awesome!
My husband and I have been married for 3 years and looking forward to many more!
We’ve been married for 16 years!
I’ve been married 9 years… today!
We’ve only been married for 15 years, but we’ve been together for 18 and friends for 20. I really like the cute hoodie. I love my man and love to share it. ;-D My husband rocks, too. Thank you for sharing your sweet post. I think the lasting marriages are the ones that focus on giving, not getting. Like your husband said, you went out of your way earlier and he *wanted* to do for you.
We just celebrated our 12th wedding anniversary!
3 years and 10 months =)
15 years! We met less than 5 months prior to our wedding day.
I have been 9 years (10 years next month!)
I’ve been married just over 14 years!!
I’ve been married to the most amazing man in the world for 6 1/2 years! I’m very blessed.
15yrs…we got married right out of college, now 4 kids later, god has brought us through some really tough times. helping us to grow closer to him and to each other.
We have been married 10 wonderful years!
LOVE LOVE LOVE the shirt! Perfection.
We are celebrating 10 years in January! We can’t even be old enough for that, right?
Thanks for the chance to win!
We’ve been married 7 1/2 years… and we’re only 27 and 28!
12 years…we have been through a lot, an adoption, 4 babies born, 2 babies passed, infidelity, addictions, separation…but we are so grateful to our loving Savior that we are going to make it to 50 and beyond!!!
7 years and going strong! I have the best husband ever!!!!
11 years! I love the hoodie; I have a coffee mug that says I love my husband and it is my mug that I HAVE to use everyday because I do love my husband!
i just bought my own shirt & one for my husband <3 our 8Year anniversary is December 1. thank you for introducing us to this company and their ministry. i pray marriages around the world are greatly impacted!
I have been married for nine years, and we have 6 little blessings out of it so far!
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We’ve been married over 20 years. I would love to win such an awesome sweatshirt/statement.
My husband and I will be married 10 years ON THURSDAY! How awesome is that!
My husband and I have been married 2 and 1/2 years.
we have been married 12 years in september!!
i don’t have a husband right now, but i know when God puts him in my path, HE WILL ROCK!!
How cute! I’ve been married for four years.
What a cute shirt! January will be our 7th anniversary!
We were high school sweethearts, together since we were 15/16. I was 19 when we got married, my husband was 18. When we got married, I felt like some people didn’t think we’d make it. We had a really rough patch a couple of years ago, but we got through it. It’s been 13 years so far, and we’re closer than ever!
We’ve been married 18 years and 3 1/2 months.
Everyday I fall more in love with him.
We have been married 9 months and 1 day! Newlyweds and yes….MY HUSBAND ROCKS!
17 years in less than 3 weeks!! Love the shirts!!
I totally get what you are saying. We are coming off 2 years of perpetual niceness, following 4 years of the other, following 6.5 years of bliss. All in all, we’ve been married 12.5 years.
5 years 4 months and 13 days today. The bumpiest road of my life, but my husband still rocks!
I have been married to the love of my life for 18 years and 5 months. Some of my dear friends came home from a marriage seminar wearing t-shirts that read “I love my husband” and “I love my wife”. The couple was so cute and honeymoonish wearing those shirts – I loved it.
My husband and I have been married for 7 and 1/2 years. We love Union 28! My husband is a junior high math teacher in a public junior high school and we love to wear Union 28 products around his students. So many of his students have never seen what a healthy marriage looks like so the shirts are actually a great way to communicate to his students about the kind of marriages they deserve to have!
I just recently saw that shirt and have wanted it ever since! (Or the t-shirt version) My excellent husband and I have been married for 5 years. It seems like it’s been forever, in a good way!
With Christ at the center of our marriage, we’ve been married 17 happy years!
I love these shirts! My husband and I will be married 14 years in December. And yes, my husband rocks!
just celebrated our 10th anniversary this past summer! (and i so need one of these shirts, because that whole world DOES need to know how awesome my husband is!!)
How sweet. I think (know) that my husband would really think that this was so awesome if I would wear a sweatshirt like this for him. How easy would that be to show him some love and appreciation. We will have been married 19 years on the day after Christmas. Yeah!!!
We were just talking about how long we’d be married at work yesterday–4 years, 2 months, and 21 days.
We’ve been together 19 years and married for the last 4 of them.
Seven years this St. Paddys day!
6 wonderful years!
Five months in two days!
I am blessed to have a very loving and giving husband and he really does rock!!! I would love a sweatshirt! I tell anyone I meer that he rocks but how cool would it be to have it in writing for everybody to see!!!
this year is 28 HAPPPY YEARS
My husband and I just celebrated our 13th anniversary in August. I’ve heard a lot about Union28, would love one of their shirts!