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When spouses practice different faiths and give to different causes

My husband grew up Catholic and automatically tithes to the church, but I'm Buddhist and believe in supporting meditation centers and humanitarian causes, and we've never actually discussed whether our separate giving practices are creating distance between us or if that's okay.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Two people are quietly maintaining parallel spiritual lives without examining whether their charitable choices reflect shared or diverging life paths.

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Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Charitable giving across traditions?”

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