a question on tithing

[lydlou]

I am a stay @ home mom, and therefore have no income of my own. My husband dosenot attend any church or pay any offering or tithes with "his" income. berore i was baptised it was "our" money. but all of a sudden its "his".

I pay tithing on my sons child support. (when i get any)

I dont know if i should just leave things as they are or try to convince my husband to pay tithing. he will admit that he "probaly should" but "dosent have time to think about it right now" i think that half of his income should be considerd mine. So with that math 5% of his income would be a full thite for me. (then perhaps he would pay 5% at a church he belives in, bringing the total to 10%)

what do you think?

[Wingnut]

If you do not work and you do not have any personal income or increase, then you cannot be required to tithe that which you do not have.

There have been a plethora of threads on this site about tithing. You can find a list of them here: http://www.lds.net/forums/lds-gospel-discussion/21758-lds-net-references-tithing.html

[Hemidakota]

If there is no income from you, you are under no obligation to pay tithing at all. But, I would allow the Spirit to dictate on your desire to pay something.

[pam]

I would have to agree with Hemi on this one.

[le_Metis]

Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior. Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything.

Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word, and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless. In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. After all, no one ever hated his own body, but he feeds and cares for it, just as Christ does the church for we are members of his body."For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh."This is a profound mystery—but I am talking about Christ and the church. However, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband

Ephesians 5:22-33 (NIV)

[Guest]

My 2 cents:

Your marriage is more important than your tithe. So, yeah, ask your husband if you can take some money to pay for tithing. If he says no, then that's that. Just fast and offer fast offerings. And pray that he will find truth in the gospel.

[seekerw]

My then-wife and I were once in this same situation: I had the income and she was a stay-at-home mom and had no income. I at that time did not pay a full tithing, and the bishop told her that since we as a couple did not pay a full tithing, then she was considered to not be a full tithe payer. Of course, we were both LDS and so it might be different than lydlou's case. Or maybe it was the individual bishop's determination.