Miss Manners: My mother embarrasses me at restaurants. She doesn’t care who sees.

DEAR MISS MANNERS: After a meal at a restaurant, my mother is in the habit of vigorously rubbing both of her hands with one ...

Miss Manners: My mother embarrasses me at restaurants with her showy post-meal routine

DEAR MISS MANNERS: After a meal at a restaurant, my mother is in the habit of vigorously rubbing both of her hands with one ...

Miss Manners: I say it’s OK to ignore a knock at the door. My neighbor doesn’t agree.

DEAR MISS MANNERS: On our neighborhood app, one of my neighbors cautioned that two young men had recently knocked on her door ...

Miss Manners: He said he Googled me and was sorry to read about my career

GENTLE READER: You could have said just that — and then privately searched your internet history for hints of why he would ...

Miss Manners: A man from my past said he Googled me and was sorry to read about my career

A reader gets a social media message from a past acquaintance, who researched his “challenging” career history. What would ...

Miss Manners: Is it really a wedding if they’re already married?

Dear Miss Manners: I have now been to three (!) weddings where I found out that the couple was already married and just going ...

Miss Manners: Why are wedding receptions these days often ‘divorced’ from the ceremonies?

I have now been to three (!) weddings where I found out that the couple was already married, and just going through the ...

Miss Manners: Why must I go along with these farcical ‘wedding’ events when couple is already married?

The letter writer has been to THREE "weddings" in which the couple had been married before the actual ceremonies and ...

Miss Manners: I attended 3 weddings where the couples were already married

In today's Miss Manners column, advice columnist Judith Martin responds to the trend of legally married couples hosting ...

Miss Manners: You’re performative ‘wedding’ isn’t just unnecessary, it’s deliberately misleading

GENTLE READER: You are certainly right that people are now using the word “wedding” to refer to the party associated with the marriage ceremony, rather than -- as defined in the Oxford English ...