DEAR MISS MANNERS: I’ve been with my fiance for 16 years. I have a good relationship with his mother, though I wouldn’t call ...

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 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.

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

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

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.

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

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 ...