She insists on sending me Christmas and birthday gifts, and sometimes even half-birthday gifts. These presents are always ...

I have a friend from childhood who is a wealthy, narcissistic hoarder. This means she spends all her time buying needless crap from the bargain bins of every box store you can imagine. For example, ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: Is it considered rude to take photos of the interior of a friend’s home (the living room), just to show my ...

This is really annoying, verging on passive-aggressive. I’ve told her many times she should not send me gifts, that a card is fine (or nothing at all). I even stopped properly thanking her for these ...

... how do we manage friends who ask where and when the next trip will be, when we would prefer to travel without them?

In today's Miss Manners column, advice columnist Judith Martin responds to a reader wondering about obligation to respond to ...

But if you forget, or run into a similar problem with someone else -- and phone-passing has become a widespread nuisance of our time -- Miss Manners suggests you simply stand up, go to your husband ...