Miss Manners understands that people who have trouble saying no might be sorry to disappoint those who importune them. Or ...

She decides, for whatever reason, to retain her maiden name. She is still deserving of the married honorific, is she not?

Miss Manners therefore suggests that you turn that weak smile into something that does, in fact, betray your irritation, ...

Advice Miss Manners: Would it be rude to insist we take our car when we go out with our daughter and son-in-law? Published: Jun. 16, 2025, 8:00 p.m.

DEAR MISS MANNERS: I was “the other one” in my relationship with the person I loved. Even aside from the marital infidelity, the relationship would have been considered scandalous by my lover ...