Dad’s girlfriend showed up to the letter writer’s bowling birthday party and took over. Dear Miss Manners: For my 40th ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: My husband and I, along with a friend, purchased hard-to-get opera tickets. We’ve looked forward to ...

However, we just learned that our companion intends to bring her extremely unruly “comfort” poodle -- not only to the opera, ...

Do we have to invite them to join us at a restaurant at some point? If so, may we try to “dilute” them by inviting others?

However, we just learned that our companion intends to bring her extremely unruly “comfort” poodle -- not only to the opera, ...

Miss Manners has sympathy for the rampant abuse of hosts when it comes to inviting extra people and dictating menus. But she ...

GENTLE READER: Your confidence that you are not required to reciprocate in your apartment, though technically correct, ...

GENTLE READER: Restaurants refuse to seat incomplete parties to maximize revenue, not manners. But as the practice is not ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: Because of a chronic illness, I have to go to a clinic in an urban setting three to four times per week.

At 10 years old, my granddaughter sometimes hurls insults at me. Without giving her the power of knowing she can wound me, what’s the best way to admonish her?

GENTLE READER: What your friend is doing is a breach of both etiquette and friendship. But Miss Manners assures you that if you treat it as such, just once, you will not have to repeat yourself: “If ...

The scene is the drawing room at The Grove, near Wallingford; the pink and white palette ageing in a genteel manner, yet ...