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

They're only working at this place temporarily and have never socialized with these people. Why do they want to see their new ...

"None of these people have ever socialized with me, so I find it odd and awkward that they would suddenly invite themselves." ...

"Ms." is an abbreviation of the honorific “Mistress,” which was the respectable equivalent of “Mister,” to be used regardless ...

One bridesmaid says she didn't have any input on the shower's size and scope, why should she have to help fund it?

I had no input as to how big this shower has become, and being asked -- no, told -- to pay for it strikes me as inappropriate ...

In today's Miss Manners column, advice columnist Judith Martin responds to a bridesmaid who questions if the bridal party ...

She immediately said, “I hate it when people say that,” and continued to complain about people always saying that.

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

A reader gets annoyed when the younger, new boyfriend called her a “cougar” in public. Plus, how to answer condescending, ...

Judith Martin's Miss Manners column has chronicled the continuous rise and fall of American manners since 1978. Readers send Miss Manners not only their table ...