Miss Manners considers it the height of poor dinner guest behavior to solicit business. She suggests that next time he starts ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: I am throwing a 50th birthday party for my spouse that will include lunch, games and an open bar, which ...

Dear Miss Manners: I’ve been with my fiancé for 16 years. I have a good relationship with his mother, though I wouldn’t call ...

Anyway, she’s been asking me to call her “Mom.” As I am extremely close to my own mother, I’m just not comfortable with this.

I’ve been with my fiance for 16 years. I have a good relationship with his mother, though I wouldn’t call us best friends.

A reader who is uncomfortable with her recently widowed mother-in-law’s request to be called “mom” seeks alternatives and a ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: I am throwing a 50th birthday party for my spouse that will include lunch, games and an open bar, which ...

GENTLE READER: Blame your mother. Moms are used to taking the fall for their children, and if you are as close as you say, ...

GENTLE READER: Blame your mother. Moms are used to taking the fall for their children, and if you are as close as you say, ...

GENTLE READER: Blame your mother. Moms are used to taking the fall for their children, and if you are as close as you say, ...

GENTLE READER: Doing so, and touting the open bar as a surprise, do betray some grandstanding -- drawing attention to how ...

I can’t imagine what his motivation was in sharing information my aunt quite clearly wanted to be kept private. Her own ...