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

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

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 ...

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.

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, ...

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.

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

In today's Miss Manners column, advice columnist Judith Martin reveals the etiquette faux pas that could turn a loving ...

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