This article features advice from Miss Manners on navigating various social dilemmas. Topics include giving gifts at birthday parties, addressing a partner's mother, handling unwanted sales pitches at dinner parties, and more.
I am throwing a 50th birthday party for my spouse that will include lunch, games and an open bar, which I’m paying for. Miss Manners: I get infuriated when my co-worker says ‘good girl’
Rather, Miss Manners suggests giving the present to your spouse just before the party — and letting them do the bragging on your behalf.: I’ve been with my fiance for 16 years. I have a good relationship with his mother, though I wouldn’t call us best friends. We talk and get along well when we go to her house, but she and I don’t spend time together on our own — only when my partner and I go visit her.Anyway, she’s been asking me to call her “Mom.
: Blame your mother. Moms are used to taking the fall for their children, and if you are as close as you say, yours will likely be willing.
SOCIAL ETIQUETTE BIRTHDAY PARTIES FAMILY RELATIONSHIPS DINNER PARTIES GIFT GIVING
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