Advice from Judith Martin, Nicholas Ivor Martin and Jacobina Martin.
: I am currently staying with a family friend and her husband for a few days while visiting my hometown. The husband clearly isn’t happy with me staying here, so I have not interacted with him much.
How do I interact with him further? Is it rude if I just avoid him? Currently, our conversations are barely existent.: Currently? Your hosts are fighting to the point of divorce, and you are sticking around, listening? And your only question is how to deal with an ungracious host? Miss Manners wonders why you did not leave for your own sake when you noticed that the host was unhappy with your being there, for whatever reason. Surely the awkwardness and inconvenience you would have experienced would have been better than being an unwelcome guest.ADVERTISEMENTI live in a five-story condominium building that has a lot of retired people in it. I have been at the same job for 20-plus years, so I have a lot of vacation days.
Most of the old-timers have left since I moved here, but there are still a few older busybodies around. They seem to suffer from “groupthink” and a tendency to interfere with others.
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