DEAR MISS MANNERS: While taking our morning walk in the park, my partner and I will often meet a business associate of his. After an exchange of greetings, my partner and his associate will begin ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: I am a 67-year-old man who works out regularly at a gym. The gym is open 24/7, and members have a key fob to enter since it is not always staffed. I was exercising at 9 p.m ...

Dear Miss Manners: Two months ago, my parents asked if they could stay with my fiancée and me for a few nights. (They live in a different part of the country.) After checking with my fiancée ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: My difficult mother-in-law has lost her husband. I don’t want to do anything for her, since she never appreciates it and always wants more. But I feel bad for her, since she ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: I am pregnant, and I’d like to host a coed party to celebrate it. Not a baby shower: I do not want any gifts, and I do not want anyone else to have to shoulder the burden of ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: I refused to attend the wedding of one of the teachers at my wife’s dance studio when the invitation included their bank account info, asking for “cash gifts ONLY.” ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: A friend from college works in Europe now and asked to stay with me for 10 days when he was here visiting. I made sure he had fresh towels. His first day here, he flooded my ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: A friend from college works in Europe now and asked to stay with me for 10 days when he was here visiting. I made sure he had fresh towels every day. His first day here ...