Plus: How do I make clear that my brother’s partner is a woman?
: I was at a friend’s for dinner. There were seven of us all together, and the host and hostess are quite formal.Miss Manners: The audience started chanting at the man who hijacked the microphone
It bothered me, knowing the hostess spent a good deal of time preparing all the food herself — and the fact that the delicious key lime pie, fresh whipped cream and homemade chocolate truffles were all wasted.: Trust Miss Manners, the untouched pie and truffles did not go to waste. Whoever did the dishes had a nice midnight snack in the kitchen after the guests left.
The solution to this non-problem is to enjoy your own dessert and stop monitoring what other people eat or do not eat.: What is the appropriate way to refer to my brother’s long-term significant other?“Girlfriend” seems too casual to correctly reflect the depth and seriousness of their relationship .
I have been using “his girlfriend” all these years, but we’re on the wrong side of 50 now, and with each passing year, that term seems more and more flippant.Miss Manners remembers when this first became an issue — because people stopped using derogatory labels, especially for women in such relationships.Dear Abby: I’m looking for a husband, and it’s frightening what I’ve been finding
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