The Professional Philanthropist

My husband was famous in our community for being an incredibly generous philanthropist. He made $8,500 a month, and he donated every single cent of it to various charities.

Meanwhile, the mortgage, the car payments, our son's tuition, and his parents' medical bills all fell entirely on my shoulders.

My salary simply couldn't cover it all. Drowning in debt, I finally tried to reason with him:

"Could you please just keep a little bit of your salary to help out at home?"

My husband immediately got angry: