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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]To be honest, it's kind of annoying.

She complains about how they're not helping her but have plenty of ability to help dysfunctional people. Today she told me for the 8th or 9th time that she doesn't want us to give anything.

She talks about strong families being important and how it's important for our kids a good religious background will be, etc., but gets annoyed when I talk about giving back to the church (and other charities), either in money or in time (she says we're too busy with a 9 y/o and a 2 y/o). Of course we have the money.

She's also the one who wanted us to join this church! (To be fair, it seems some of the more liberal churches are geared towards the rich, the old, and the single, and frankly don't seem to have much to offer middle-class/regular upper-middle class folks.)

I have been asked to be the preparer of the church bulletin and she gets annoyed when I spend time preparing the bulletin and making copies of said bulletin (maybe 90 minutes max a week).

I don't know where to bring this up w/o throwing her under the bus to other members, so I figure this is a safe place to vent since she doesn't read this page. She is blind so a lot of "get her to do XXX" advice won't really work (although some will).

Yes in theory I can cut a check but it's out of the same pot of money and replace "giving to church without my spouse's consent" with "buying a new XXX without my spouse's consent."

Please pray for me and my family, and that either I can be more at peace with how my wife is, or that some resolution can be found (new church, leaving organized religion altogether, her coming around to my way of thinking, etc.) [/quote]

We tithe around 30% of gross income every year, to the Church of the White House and their local DC temple.[/quote]

Hahaha!  I haven't drunk enough coffee yet.  I read that and thought "Sooooo, you're Mormon? I thought they only required 10%?" I thought White House was referring to their DC temple, then I got confused because you mentioned the temple in the next sentence.  More coffee for me![/quote]

:lol: [/quote]

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