Dear Miss Manners: My friend and I both have baby girls: Hers is about 6 months old, and mine is 3 months. She has given me a ...

In today's Miss Manners column, advice columnist Judith Martin responds to someone who has a question about a mistake they ...

A letter writer is bothered by a friend who keeps agreeing to attend events, but then cancels to do something else.

GENTLE READER: If the pattern starts up again, Miss Manners suggests you issue a gentle ultimatum: “You seem to be too busy ...

Miss Manners would have concluded by saying that backing out gives the impression you -- or in this case, your friend -- have no manners. After all, there is little doubt your friend preferred the ...

(Please send your questions to Miss Manners at her website, www.missmanners.com; to her email, [email protected]; or ...

Miss Manners would have concluded by saying that backing out gives the impression you — or in this case, your friend — have no manners. After all, there is little doubt your friend preferred ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: My wife has a terminal illness and ... Last week, she dropped off three new hardback books -- which my wife cannot hold, due to her weakened condition. Earlier this week ...

GENTLE READER: Is that not what the little plastic dividers are for? DEAR MISS MANNERS: The man I’ve been dating for the last year doesn’t use the words “thank you” or “please.” ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: I was active-duty military, eligible to shop in the commissary, where goods were somewhat less expensive than at a civilian market. My pay was also less than the equivalent ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: I need to know how I should have ... I would also have been a little flustered and stressed. We would have had to move to a bigger house, for one thing. But none of that was ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: I don’t know what to do about my boyfriend’s habit of always canceling plans. We have been together for a little over three years, and when he does follow through with plans ...